The New Director of the University of Massachusetts Press

Mary V. Dougherty has been named director of the University of Massachusetts Press. Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press has sold more than 2,000,000 volumes and has over 1,000 titles in print.

Since 2006, Dr. Dougherty has been the publisher for works of history at Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. Earlier in her career, she was an editor and college sales representative for Houghton Mifflin.

Dr. Dougherty is a graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.