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Our Acquisitions Editors

Our acquisitions editors are listed below with links to their individual profiles. If you wish to contact one of them about a new project, please first consult our submission guidelines, which explain what materials we welcome from you and answer some frequently asked questions. We also provide an overview about publishing with Chicago here. We look forward to hearing from you. (If you wish to offer freelance copyediting or indexing services, please contact our manuscript editing department at freelance_inquiries_books@uchicago.edu.)


Alan Thomas

Editorial Director

E-mail: athomas2@uchicago.edu

Subjects: Literature and criticism
Series: Berlin Family Lectures; Carpenter LecturesCritical TermsThinking Literature; TRIOS

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Elizabeth Branch Dyson

Assistant Editorial Director, Executive Editor

E-mail:ebd@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Sociology; education; jazz studies
Series: History and Philosophy of EducationMorality and SocietyFieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

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Joseph Calamia

Executive Editor

E-mail: jcalamia@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Life sciences; physical sciences; mathematics; digital studies; environmental studies
Series: Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological LaboratoryEarth Day; ReplayThe Visual Elements

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Karen Merikangas Darling

Executive Editor

E-mail: darling@uchicago.edu
Subjects: History of science, medicine, technology, and the environment & philosophy, sociology, and anthropology of science, medicine, and technology
Series: Oceans in Depth; science•culture; Synthesis

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Sara Doskow

Senior Editor

E-mail: sdoskow@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Political science; law; international relations
Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics; Chicago Series in Law and Society

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Susannah Engstrom

Assistant Editor

E-mail: sengstrom@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Geography; cartography

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Mary E. Laur

Executive Editor

E-mail: mlaur@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Writing guides; regional reference; general reference
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and PublishingChicago Guides to Academic Life; History of Cartography

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Karen Levine

Executive Editor

E-mail: levinek@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Art, ancient studies
Series:  Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection; Critical Antiquities; Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series

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Mollie McFee

Assistant Editor

E-mail: mmcfee@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Ethnomusicology
Series: Chicago Studies in EthnomusicologyBig Issues in Music

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Timothy Mennel

Executive Editor

E-mail: tmennel@uchicago.edu
Subjects: American history; Chicago and its region
Series: American Beginnings, 1500-1900Chicago Visions and RevisionsHistorical Studies of Urban America

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Dylan J. Montanari

Associate Editor

E-mail: dmontanari@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Anthropology; history (intellectual history, history of gender and sexuality, world history, and histories of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America)
Series: The Life of Ideas; Silk Roads; Animal Lives

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David B. Olsen

Associate Editor

E-mail: dbolsen@uchicago.edu
Subjects: General reference; guides; paperback reprints
Series: Phoenix Poets

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Randolph Petilos

Assistant Editor

E-mail: rpetilos@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Medieval studies; poetry in translation

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Marta Tonegutti

Editor

E-mail: mtonegut@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Music
Series: The Works of Giuseppe Verdi; Opera LabNew Material Histories of Music; The Bard Music Festival

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Kyle Wagner

Editor

E-mail: kwagner@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Religious Studies; philosophy; rhetoric & communication
Series: Buddhism and ModernityClass 200: New Studies in ReligionThe Seminars of Jacques DerridaThe Chicago Foucault Project

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Chad Zimmerman

Executive Editor

E-mail: chadzimmerman@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Economics; business; & public policy
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research; Markets and Governments in Economic History

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Kari Roane

Director, Journals Acquisitions and Publisher

E-mail: kroane@uchicago.edu
Journals Acquisitions

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