Sylvia Frank Rodrigue

Sylvia Frank Rodrigue, proprietor of Sylverlining editorial consulting, is executive editor for Southern Illinois University Press, for which she acquires Civil War and Reconstruction manuscripts. Other projects in progress include the Louisiana Encyclopedia , of which she is coeditor, and Historic Baton Rouge, of which she is coauthor . She serves on the board of the United States Civil War Center and is a member of the following organizations: Louisiana Historical Association, Organization...See more

Sylvia Frank Rodrigue, proprietor of Sylverlining editorial consulting, is executive editor for Southern Illinois University Press, for which she acquires Civil War and Reconstruction manuscripts. Other projects in progress include the Louisiana Encyclopedia , of which she is coeditor, and Historic Baton Rouge, of which she is coauthor . She serves on the board of the United States Civil War Center and is a member of the following organizations: Louisiana Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society of Civil War Historians, Society for Women and the Civil War, Southern Association for Women Historians, and Southern Historical Association. Rodrigue was editor of "Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency," an exhibit of the U.S. Civil War Center located online at www.cwc.lsu.edu/BeyondFaceValue. For eight years Rodrigue worked at Louisiana State University Press, where over the course of her tenure she served as acquisitions editor, executive editor, and editor-in-chief. She acquired for LSU Press more than 180 books of history, political science, literary criticism, and poetry, including fourteen award winners. Prior to starting her job at LSU Press in 1996 she was managing editor at Stackpole Books in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. During her five years at Stackpole she worked on approximately 100 books in various subject areas, including history, gardening, cooking, and travel. Rodrigue grew up in Hollis, New Hampshire, and attended Messiah College and Temple University in Pennsylvania. She is married to John C. Rodrigue, associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. They live in Baton Rouge. See less