Political Science

I acquire academic and trade books across the major subfields in political science and international relations. I look for bold and original viewpoints, backed by rigorous research or reporting, in US politics and law, current events, and international relations. Within US politics, I’m interested in authoritative books that help explain our current political and legal climate and where it’s headed, written for both scholars and the intelligent reading public. I’m also interested in select histories of US politics, especially those that explore the development of conservatism. In international relations, I seek books that reveal the complexities of global dynamics, especially those focusing on East Asia (particularly China and Taiwan), the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

I focus on commissioning academic monographs, Oxford Handbooks and Oxford India Short Introductions for our Political Science and Sociology lists. My goal is to publish cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that addresses the evolving socio-political landscape of India, South Asia, the broader Asia and the Global South. In Political Science, I am particularly interested in acquiring books on international relations and geopolitics in Asia, environmental politics, digital politics and cybersecurity, as well as identity politics and social movements. In Sociology, I prioritize areas such as migration and refugee studies, gender studies, caste and social stratification, education and social inequality, and cultural sociology. My commissioning priorities respond to the needs of our customers—academicians, researchers and institutions. While I do not specifically acquire textbooks intended for university students, I am interested in scholarly books that demonstrate strong potential for profitable adoption by Indian or foreign universities.

I aim to publish across the waterfront in political science and international relations (IR), both in terms of subject matter and methodological approach. Those disciplines are broken down into a great range of different sub-disciplines and I acquire in a significant proportion of those. Having said that, I do focus on particular areas, not least comparative politics (especially with a strong European dimension), governance and public policy, normative political theory, EU Studies, international organization, the movement of peoples, international intervention and peacekeeping, African politics, and the impact of climate change. A significant number of the subject areas in which I acquire also cross over into adjacent disciplines in which we also have great publishing strength, most notably philosophy, sociology, economics, history, development studies, and international law. I mainly acquire monographs and Oxford Handbooks, with a smattering of ‘impact titles’ and graduate texts. 

I acquire books across the subfields of political science, with a focus on gender and sexuality politics, race and ethnic politics, environmental politics, technology and politics, political communication, migration, and democracy. While I publish books that draw on empirical work from across the world, my main area of focus is American politics. I look for books that extend the boundaries of what we understand as politics and that are not afraid to challenge received knowledge and notions of power. My list includes trade books, upper-level undergraduate and graduate course books, scholarly monographs, and handbooks. I also welcome proposals from agents. My list has won over fifty different awards internationally, including the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, ISA Annual Best Book Award, Ralph J. Bunche Award, Victoria Schuck Award, Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, David and Elaine Spitz Prize, Mackenzie Book Prize, Goldsmith Book Prize, and W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award. 

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 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 am a senior editor in Reference focusing on the social sciences. I manage online reference publishing for Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford Handbooks Online, and Oxford Research Encyclopedias in the disciplines of communication, criminology and criminal justice, international relations, international studies, political science, sociology, and urban studies. I also acquire print handbooks in international relations, political science, and sociology, as well as print encyclopedias in communication, criminology and criminal justice, and political science. Recent OUP publications I have worked on include The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture, among others.  I have worked in social science scholarly publishing since 2000. I have an undergraduate degree in public policy from Princeton University and a master’s degree in political science from the Johns Hopkins University.