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.

Alan Thomas

Editorial Director

E-mail: athomas2@uchicago.edu

Subjects: Literature and criticism
Series: Berlin Family Lectures; Carpenter Lectures; Critical Terms; Phoenix Poets; Thinking Literature; TRIOS

Elizabeth Branch Dyson

Assistant Editorial Director, Executive Editor

E-mail:ebd@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Sociology; education; jazz studies
Series: History and Philosophy of Education; Morality and Society; Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

Mary Al-Sayed

Editor

E-mail: maryalsayed@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Anthropology; history (intellectual history, history of gender and sexuality, world history, and histories of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America); ethnomusicology
Series: The Life of Ideas; Silk Roads; Animal Lives; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Big Issues in Music

Susan Bielstein

Executive Editor

E-mail: smb1@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Art, design, film, ancient studies, architecture
Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection; Critical Antiquities; Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series

Joseph Calamia

Senior Editor

E-mail: jcalamia@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Life sciences; physical sciences; mathematics; digital studies; environmental studies
Series: Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory; Theoretical Astrophysics

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