History

I work in OUP’s New York office and acquire exclusively trade titles, meaning
intended for a general readership. These involve history and biography, with the occasional foray into intersecting disciplines. The projects I acquire tend to have a strong narrative element. While they may strive for archival originality and argumentative distinction, they are mainly guided by a sturdy storyline. I’m the in-house editor for the Pivotal Moments in American History series, which over the course of three decades has produced a Pulitzer Prize and several New York Times bestsellers. One particular focus of my list is military history, works that expand our understanding of and appreciation for the ways in which conflict on a large scale has shaped the world in which we live.

I commission Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford Handbooks in History are designed as works of scholarly reference, addressing the need to reflect critically upon the current state of scholarship in the diverse fields that comprise the discipline. They also provide an occasion to help shape the field by giving primacy to approaches and issues that seem most likely to define the field for subsequent generations. I am, in principle, interested in commissioning Handbooks in all major areas of history in all areas of the world, from the early 4th century CE to the present, including (but not limited to): social, economic, political, cultural, military, legal, gender, identity, sexuality, at national, regional, or global levels.

I publish histories on a wide range of periods, geographies, and subfields for
general readers, scholars, and students. Focal points include (but are not limited to) histories of America; Europe, including eastern Europe and Slavic lands; the environment; the Atlantic and Pacific; gender, race, and ethnicity; urban topics; war and society; foreign relations; international and transnational approaches (Oxford Studies in International History); Asia; Latin America; food; and biography. My list includes the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series. Books on my list are characterized by their original arguments, archival sources, and narrative flair. I am proud to edit many books by first-time authors, as well as by mid-career and senior writers. They have won the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prizes, Bancroft Prizes, Cundill Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and scholarly association awards. I enjoy working closely on developing texts with authors, helping to make their ideas accessible to readers. 

I am an acquisitions editor in the Reference Editorial group specializing in history and philosophy. As one of the department’s subject editors for the humanities, I oversee the development of the Oxford Research Encyclopedias (ORE) in American, Asian, and Latin American history, in addition to the Oxford Bibliographies (OBO) in Atlantic History, Chinese Studies, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, Medieval Studies, Military History, Philosophy, and Renaissance and Reformation Studies. I also acquire in print for the Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) program: recent signings include the Oxford Handbook of Cosmopolitanism, the Oxford Handbook of Global Labor History, and the Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South. I began my career in scholarly publishing more than ten years ago at Cambridge University Press before coming to OUP in 2013. I earned my BA from Grinnell College, where I studied philosophy and music theory, and I received my MA in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. 

I work in OUP’s Oxford office and acquire trade titles, meaning titles intended for a general readership, and series titles for the Very Short Introductions and Oxford World’s Classics. I am particularly interested in books on global history and culture. I like books that combine little-known events and periods or tackle familiar events in a new way (such as The Fall of Robespierre or A Lab of One's Own Science and Suffrage in the First World War). With VSIs, I’m seeking to expand the author and subject pool, again with a general reader in mind. For OWCs, I’m seeking to expand the canon with new translations such Rumi’s Masnavi.

I am a senior editor in Reference Editorial, specializing in the areas of history and religious studies. I am the subject editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, as well as the Oxford Bibliographies (OBO) modules on Islamic Studies, Hinduism, Jewish Studies, Biblical Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies. I am also the the lead editor for the Online Resource Centers (Oxford Biblical Studies Online, Oxford Islamic Studies Online, and the Oxford African American Studies Center). Finally, I acquire several print projects a year, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Humanism and The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History. I have over fifteen years of experience in scholarly publishing, along with a B.A. in History and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

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 am a commissioning editor for humanities with OUP’s Academic India division, specializing in history, philosophy, religion, and literature. I commission across a range of themes and geographies but with a particular focus on India, South Asia, and wider Asia. I particularly seek investigations that centre on environmental histories; critical discussions of imperial histories; social histories that include gender relations and transformation of caste hierarchies; new perspectives on labour; debates around religious traditions and cultural practices, and the relationship between science and religion; and new ways of looking at nationalist histories. For literature, I especially look forward to acquiring titles that reflect interdisciplinary trends at the intersection of literature and the arts—theatre, cinema, music, and painting; literature and politics; and literature and cultural studies. Other works that engage with critical new developments in the humanities and add value to our understanding of Asia are most welcome.

I am an Acquisitions Editor in Reference Editorial specializing in the social sciences. I am currently overseeing the development of several new modules in Oxford’s Research Encyclopedia program as well as Oxford Bibliographies in the disciplines of Gender Studies and Women’s History, and Disability Studies. I joined OUP from Palgrave Macmillan in 2018, and worked for six years in the Higher Education team, commissioning textbooks in Politics & International Relations, and Science. I hold a joint honours degree in English Literature and Politics, and a Master’s in English Literature from Oxford Brookes University.

I commission across medieval, early modern and modern history. I welcome proposals in all these areas. I aim to publish distinctive and field-advancing scholarship that challenges received historiographical wisdoms, conventional periodisations and regional/national groupings, and disciplinary divisions. I seek scholarship that is grounded in deep archival research, and I am drawn to work that is global and transnational in its outlook. Although my list is not limited by any geographical boundaries, I am most interested in scholarship on Europe (broadly and inventively understood), the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Soviet Union. I work with both established and emerging scholars. I particularly welcome proposals from those who are underrepresented in the academy, and I would be happy to discuss OUP’s proposal guidelines and publishing process in advance of a submission, especially by way of supporting first-time authors.