Earth and Environmental Sciences

I am a Senior Acquisitions Editor in OUP’s Scholarly Reference department, where I work on print and online reference works in the social sciences and sciences. I oversee online modules for the Oxford Handbooks, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, and Oxford Bibliographies programs in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, education, geography, law, neuroscience, and social work. I also acquire new print handbooks in law and archaeology: recent or forthcoming publications include The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law, and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law. I have degrees in linguistics and French literature, both from the University of Chicago. Much of my career has involved reference publishing of one sort or another, and I have been a part of OUP’s Scholarly Reference department since 2012.

I joined Oxford University Press in 2001 and have been acquiring in the sciences since 2003. I have worked on a wide range of projects, including The Scientific Sherlock Holmes (winner of the 2013 Best Critical/Biographical Edgar Award), The Flora of Middle Earth, Writing Science, and Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC. I also work within series such as “What Everyone Needs to Know” and “Long-Term Ecological Research”. While I have been lucky enough to acquire across the Sciences in my time at OUP, I am now particularly interested in titles from Earth and Environmental Sciences. Within those areas I’m on the lookout for climate related titles, space related titles, and food science related titles.

I am an Acquisitions Editor in Reference Editorial, specializing in earth and environmental sciences. I oversee the publication of several online modules for Oxford Research Encyclopedias (ORE) in the disciplines of climate science, environmental science, natural hazard science, planetary science, and physics. I am also the subject editor on three Oxford Bibliographies (OBO) modules, which cover topics on ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science. Recent print titles I have worked on include The Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy. I have worked in STM publishing since 2016 and joined the reference team at Oxford University Press in April of 2021.