Michael Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

• Promoted to Senior Editor from Managing Editor in 2019 after fully assuming the editorship of Academe, the magazine of the AAUP• Served as Interim Director of External Relations for eight months in 2020 while the permanent director was on leave, leading a department of seven through the transition to remote work at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic• Determine themes for future issues of Academe, identify and cultivate authors, solicit articles, and evaluate unsolicited submissions• Lead editorial advisory board meetings and collaborate with board members, association leaders, and colleagues on editorial planning• Write “From the Editor” column and news stories for Academe• Edit articles, book reviews, and reports and proofread Academe• Oversee the work of freelance editors, graphic designers, and printers• Manage production, printing, and postage budgets• Create editorial calendar and ensure that project deadlines are met• Determine editorial policy and maintain house style guide• Photograph AAUP events and maintain the AAUP’s Flickr page

• Photograph conferences and other events for clients including the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, the Council on Undergraduate Research, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, and NASPA: Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education

Washington, Dc

• Promoted to Editor/Senior Staff Writer from Associate Editor/Staff Writer in 2005• Wrote articles, summarized research findings, and reported for AAC&U News and other AAC&U publications• Wrote Advancing Liberal Education, a booklet profiling innovative campus programs• Copyedited and proofread Liberal Education and Peer Review, AAC&U’s two quarterly magazines• Edited several AAC&U monographs

Berkeley, California, United States

• Assisted editors and researchers at the world’s largest archive of Mark Twain’s papers• Edited materials for library exhibits and for publications of the University of California Press• Represented the Mark Twain Project at the 2003 annual conference of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium in Nancy, France• Encoded letters in XML for the first ebook edition of Mark Twain’s correspondence

Emeryville, California, United States

• Promoted to Cartography Editor from Editorial Assistant in 2000 after developing new processes to improve accuracy of maps and ensure correlation between maps and guidebook text• Managed all editorial aspects of map production for Moon Handbooks, Foghorn Outdoors guides, and Travel Smart books• Supervised cartography assistant

Ma, English

Ba, Writing Seminars, English

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa