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.
• 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

• 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.

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