2024-11-08T08:28:11-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150178533/school-of-architecture-professor-to-lead-university-of-virginia-press Antonio Pacheco 2020-01-13T18:32:00-05:00 >2020-01-13T20:21:38-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fd/fdbf3294764be97212dbf95fd03517f3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Suzanne Morse Moomaw, associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the <a href="https://archinect.com/uva_sarc" target="_blank">University of Virginia</a>'s School of Architecture, is the new director of the University of Virginia Press.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>UVA Today</em> <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/suzanne-morse-moomaw-named-director-university-virginia-press" target="_blank">reports</a> that Moomaw has served on the press's board of directors since 2015 and will be on leave for the 2020-21 academic year to pursue the role. She will then begin the search for the press's next director starting in the spring of 2021. Moomaw is taking over for previous director <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-mark-saunders-writer-book-lover-and-innovator-scholarly-publishing" target="_blank">Mark Saunders, who passed away May 19, 2019.</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>Moomaw's hiring was announced in December and she took the reigns of the publishing house at the start of 2020.&nbsp;</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150174798/lynn-grady-joins-princeton-architectural-press-as-publisher" target="_blank">Lynn Grady joins Princeton Architectural Press as publisher</a></li></ul><p>Moomaw is the director of the Community Design Research Center at UVA, an entity focused on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/community-design-research-center" target="_blank">addressing the "wicked problems"</a> faced by communities today. She has a long career in higher education and in philanthropic, non-profit, and research organizations, including an 18-year stint as the CE...</p>