Sociology

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 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.  

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.