CISS to Host Book Publishing Panel With Prominent Editors on April 25

The event will be held on Zoom, registration is required here.

Introductions: Deborah Carr, CISS Director

Moderator(s): Arianne Chernock, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Social Sciences

Editor Panelists:

Elizabeth Ault, Senior Editor, Duke University Press.

Elizabeth acquires books in African and Middle East studies, Black and Latinx studies, trans studies, disability studies, and Sociology and critical studies of prisons and policing. She works with the editors of several book series, including Practices, Theory in Forms, Camera Obscura, Black Feminism on the Edge, and ASTERISK. Elizabeth is most interested in projects that reach outward across disciplines and academic conversations in surprising ways, that connect historical and emerging conditions, and that are committed to engaging with race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability.

BU authors who have published with Duke University Press include Susan Eckstein (CAS, Sociology and Pardee),  Petrus Liu (CAS, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) and Filipe Maia (STH).

James Cook, Senior Acquisition Editor (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Oxford University Press.

James publishes books in several social science disciplines – economics, business, and finance as well as sociology and criminology. Within economics, he acquires books in virtually all major subject areas and methodological approaches including economic history. In sociology and criminology, he looks for manuscripts that are empirically grounded and make theoretical advances on a range of topics. I also publish books on theory and methods. Books he’s published have won awards such as the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Award, the C. Wright Mills Award, and many others.

BU authors who have published with Oxford University Press include Brooke L. Blower (CAS, History), Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock), James J. Cummings (COM), Spencer Piston (CAS, Political Science), and Ana Villarreal (CAS, Sociology).

Liz Friend-Smith, Commissioning Editor, Cambridge University Press.

Liz looks after the Press’s British and European history publishing program, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as our publishing in intellectual history and the history of political thought. She commissions a wide range of book types, including scholarly monographs, academic trade, textbooks, coursebooks, reference, student editions of texts (especially Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) and Elements series. She  welcomes book proposals in all these areas, and for all the series with which she is involved.

BU authors who have published with Cambridge University Press include Taylor Boas (CAS, Political Science), David Carballo (CAS, Anthropology, Archaeology, & Latin American Studies), Arianne Chernock (CAS, History),  Cathie Jo Martin (CAS, Political Science), and Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management).

Peter Mickulas, Executive Editor, Rutgers University Press.

Peter edits an eclectic list in sociology, criminology, history, and regional studies (with an emphasis on the Northeastern US and, in particular, New Jersey and the NY City metro area). His authors have written award-winning titles and have made the nine-book series he currently manages successful venues for publishing both scholarly and trade books. During his tenure at Rutgers Press, he has also sought to develop key partnerships both within Rutgers and outside the university, establishing book series and imprints with such partners as the NJ State Council for the Arts, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and Raritan Quarterly.

BU authors who have published with Rutgers University Press include Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director), Celeste Curington (CAS, Sociology),  Joanna Davidson (CAS, Anthropology) and Daniel Kleinman (CAS, Sociology & Office of the Provost).

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