About Ruth Homrighaus

I received my B.A. from Grinnell College, where I majored in English and history, and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While completing my graduate training, I worked for five years in acquisitions at the University of North Carolina Press, where I was an assistant editor.

My academic training is in modern European history, with an emphasis on modern and early modern British history, social history, the history of women, and the history of imperialism. During my years at the University of North Carolina Press, I also worked on projects in the fields of U.S. history (particularly southern history, the history of women, legal history, labor history, and the history of religion in America), African American studies, American studies, and literary studies.

I founded Ruthless Editing in 2003. Since that time, I have edited projects in a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences, including history (U.S., European, Latin American, Asian, and Middle Eastern from ancient times to the present), political science, economics, literary studies, religious studies, art history, and philosophy and ethics, as well as works of social criticism and memoir.

I live in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with my husband, David Voelker, who teaches U.S. history at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.