“The Booker T. Washington Papers” is considered one of the great documentary editions in American scholarship. Washington had close ties to Black leaders in Charlottesville.

The UVA architecture professor has served on the press’s board of directors since 2015 and will launch the search for the next director by spring 2021.

The publishing veteran, who has served as interim director for a year, also heads up Rotunda, the press’s electronic initiative.

“Mapping Virginia,” published by the University of Virginia Press, represents the most comprehensive available selection of printed maps from Virginia’s first 300 years.

A collaboration between U.Va. Press and the Society of Architectural Historians yielded an interactive, online encyclopedia of notable buildings across the U.S.