Manuscript Submissions

For instructions on submitting manuscripts for specific series

When submitting a proposal, please include the following information:

  1. General description of the book’s purpose, content, format, audience, length, and special features, including illustrations (projected number, black and white or color)—3-10 pages.
  2. Table of contents or chapter outline, with short summaries of each chapter or section (about a page per chapter).
  3. Two sample chapters.
  4. Market for the book: e.g., scholarly or professional organizations whose members would be most interested, potential for classroom use as required or recommended reading, competing books and how yours differs from them.
  5. List of any sections of the book that are being published separately, e.g., as journal articles.
  6. Timetable for completion.
  7. List of possible expert readers, with an email address for contacting them if possible. Please note their qualifications and previous association with you, if any.
  8. Your qualifications for writing this book. Please enclose a vita.

Please allow three to four weeks for an initial response. Please be advised that we no longer publish fiction or poetry.


Send proposals in Film and Media Studies, Latino Studies, and American Studies to:

Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
email: nicole.solano@rutgers.edu

Send proposals in the Regional Studies, Social Sciences, the Environment, Criminology, and for the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series to:

Peter Mickulas
Executive Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel:  848-445-7752
Email: mickulas@rutgers.edu

Send proposals in Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Aging, Childhood, and Fashion to:

Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel:  848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu

Send proposals in Higher Education, History of Education, and Human Rights to:

Peggy Solic
Senior Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel:  TBD
Email: peggy.solic@rutgers.edu

Send proposals in Asian American Studies and Religious Studies/Jewish Studies to:

Carah Naseem
Associate Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7785
email: carah.naseem@rutgers.edu

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