Acquisitions Editor European History, Media Studies, Environmental Studies, and Foodways 225.578.6433 / aplant@lsu.edu

Alisa Plant received a B.A. in English from the University of Kansas, an M.A. in Medieval Studies from Yale University, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history, also from Yale. Over the years she has worn various editorial hats: she worked as a text editor at the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and as a freelance copy editor for LSU Press before moving to acquisitions and joining the in-house Press staff in 2005. She acquires books in history, media studies, environmental studies, political science, business, and foodways. In history, she seeks academic books about Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Atlantic World from the early modern era to the mid-twentieth century; she also acquires works about colonial Louisiana. She is particularly interested in acquiring books about France or Spain, either on their own or as part of the larger Atlantic World. In political science and environmental studies, she seeks scholarly studies that focus on Louisiana or the South.

Plant oversees the Press's two media studies series: From Our Own Correspondent (John Maxwell Hamilton, series editor) and Media & Public Affairs (Bob Mann, series editor), as well as the environmental studies list, The Gulf South in the Natural World.