Business/Economics/Finance

Within the Social and Behavioral Sciences acquisitions group I acquire books in social work, counseling psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology. While these are three distinct and separate areas, they are similar in the applied nature of each discipline, offering a clear career trajectory from graduate study to professional practice (in addition to the academic and research communities). As such, our commissioning and publishing in each area seeks to provide authoritative content from-cradle-to-grave, from upper-level undergraduate/graduate textbooks to research monographs, handbooks, and desk references, to practitioner-oriented materials and trade and impact titles. We have some wonderful society partners, co-publishing several series with SIOP (I/O Psych) and another with SSWAA (social work), and I am always exploring additional ways to deepen those relationships and establish others.  Before joining OUP in 2012, I was an acquisitions editor at Routledge/T&F where I oversaw the counseling and school psychology lists.

I am an Acquisitions Editor, working on both print and online reference publications in the social sciences and sciences. I oversee online modules for Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, and Oxford Bibliographies in the areas of economics, finance, business, management, psychology, and childhood studies. I also acquire select print handbooks and encyclopedias in the areas of economics, finance, business, management, and psychology. Recent print titles I have worked on include The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management, The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology, among others. I have worked in reference publishing at Oxford University Press since 2016. 

I publish books in several social science disciplines – economics, business, and finance as well as sociology and criminology. Within economics, business, and finance, I acquire books in virtually all major subject areas and methodological approaches with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation; economic history and the history of economics; financial economics, management, and markets; strategic management, and organization studies. In sociology and criminology, I look for manuscripts that are empirically grounded and make theoretical advances on a range of topics. I also publish books on theory and methods. Across all disciplines my list includes general interest titles, upper-level undergraduate and graduate texts, scholarly monographs, and Oxford handbooks. I welcome proposals from agents. Books I’ve published have won awards such as the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Award, the C. Wright Mills Award, the American Educational Research Association Best Book Award, the American Society of Criminology’s Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award, the Academy of Criminal Justice Science’s Outstanding Book Award, among many others.  

I joined the Press in October 2018 as Commissioning Editor with Academic India and manage the Business and Economics lists. The lists include academic monographs, research books, Handbooks, Oxford India Short Introductions (OISIs), multi-volume sets, series, and reports. My commissioning is focussed on priority areas and responds to the needs of our customers – academicians, students, researchers, practitioners, and institutions. My priority areas within Economics are economic development and growth, political economy, public finance, international trade, the Indian economy, banking and financial markets, agriculture and environmental economics, econometrics, health economics, and international economics. For the Business list, priorities are organizational behaviour, operations and supply chain management, strategic management, mergers and acquisitions, consumer behaviour, international business, entrepreneurship, case studies, and business ethics.

Since 2012, I have commissioned works for our academic, trade, and reference programmes from India. I run our Academic India commissioning and publishing team, and bring out global print and electronic (eBook and online) editions in Humanities and Social Sciences by both senior and younger academics worldwide, focusing on South Asia and other parts of Asia. I am particularly looking for multi-contributor Oxford Handbooks offering commissioned essays and monographs within or outside any new academic series. Diverse are the areas and issues I engage in, including minorities, geopolitics, international relations, religion, conflicts and peacekeeping, sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, public health, gender, education, performance studies, media, social and cultural histories, literature and the other arts, business, economics, and management. While the emphasis is on books of contemporary and long-lasting relevance among an academic readership, I am also curious to look selectively at market-facing proposals for crossover books for a wider readership as well as Oxford India Short Introductions, which I publish mainly for students and the general reader.

I seek to acquire across the full range of economics, business and management, but have specific interest in topics of organizations studies, management strategy, industrial development and structure, development economics, labour, welfare, and inequality, economic history, climate impact, and the big themes that cut across these topics, including critical thinking about local, national, and global processes of structural transformation. The contemporary world is characterized by massive wealth alongside widespread poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction – all bound up through class, race, and gender dynamics of inequality and oppression. I am looking to publish a diverse and inclusive range of authors whose work engages in critical, multidisciplinary, decolonial, and methodologically plural studies. Economics is a journals’ led discipline; and Oxford University Press publishes some of the most highly ranked journals, with books offering a high-profile Open Access, course relevant, or Handbook assessable list of titles to complement this.