This talk will offer faculty and graduate students advice on developing, shopping, and publishing scholarly monographs, and it will provide context on the contemporary scholarly book publishing marketplace. The talk will be followed by a reception.
The talk is part of the Humanities Center’s Book Proposal Workshop.
Adina’s career in publishing started at Yale Press when she was an undergraduate work-study worker in the manuscript editorial department. She rejoined the Press in 2016 as a senior editor, following editorial stops at Westview Press, Basic Books, Cambridge, and Oxford, and after a PhD in history from Columbia. At Yale she has published books centered on American history, including Lisa Brooks’ Our Beloved, William Thomas’ A Question of Freedom, Pekka Hämäläinen’s Lakota America, Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea, Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America, and David Blight’s Yale and Slavery. Her books have been awarded over 70 prizes including the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the George Washington Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, and best books of the year from the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Publishers’ Weekly, and Publishers Marketplace, among others.
