The American Campus
Asian American Studies Today
Behind the Silver Screen
Carework in a Changing World
Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History
Childhood Studies
Comics Culture
Critical Caribbean Studies
Critical Graphics
Critical Issues in American Education
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Critical Issues in Sport and Society
DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation
Families in Focus
Feminist Art Histories
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Global Film Directors
Global Media & Race
Global Perspectives on Aging
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
Jewish Cultures of the World
Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership
Key Words in Jewish Studies
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
MediaMatters
Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
Nature, Society, and Culture
New Directions in International Studies
New Directions in the History of Education
Other Voices of Italy
Pinpoints
The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Q+ Public
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Reinventions of the Paris Commune
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Screen Decades
Screening Sports
Star Decades
Style Discourse: Fashion, Art, and Culture
Techniques of the Moving Image Series
Violence Against Women and Children
War Culture
The American Campus series, founded by Harold S. Wechsler, Professor of Education at New York University, seeks books that explore recent developments and public policy issues in higher education in the United States. Topics of interest include access to college and affordability; drop-out rates; tenure and academic freedom; campus labor; the expansion of administrative posts and salaries; the crisis in the humanities and the arts; the corporate university and for-profit colleges; online education; controversy in sports programs; and gender, ethnic, racial, religious, and class dynamics and diversity. Books feature scholarship from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email to:
Peggy Solic
Senior Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: TBD
Email: peggy.solic@rutgers.edu
Asian American Studies Today
Edited by Huping Ling
The Asian American Studies Today series will publish quality books on cutting-edge themes and issues. We are eager to consider original scholarship, including broadly based histories of both long-standing and more recent immigrant populations; focused investigations of ethnic enclaves and understudied subgroups; and examinations of relationships among various cultural, regional, and socioeconomic communities. We also welcome manuscripts on subject areas that are in need of further critical inquiry, including transnationalism, globalization, homeland polity, and other pertinent topics.
SERIES EDITOR
Huping Ling is professor of history, the founder of the Asian Studies Program, and the past convener (department chair) at Truman State University. She is Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China Central Normal University, and a visiting professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University. The executive editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) from 2008 to 2012, Ling has published eleven books and over a hundred articles in Asian American studies.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email to:
Carah Naseem
Associate Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7785
Email: carah.naseem@rutgers.edu
Behind the Silver Screen
Edited by Jon Lewis
When we take a larger view of a film’s “life” from development through exhibition, we find a variety of artists, technicians, and craftsmen in front of and behind the camera. Writers write. Actors, who are costumed and made-up, speak the words and perform the actions described in the script. Art directors and set designers develop the look of the film. The cinematographer decides upon a lighting scheme. Dialogue, sound effects, and music are recorded, mixed, and edited by sound engineers. The images, final sound mix, and special visual effects are assembled by editors to form a final cut. Moviemaking is the product of the efforts of these men and women, yet few film histories focus much on their labor.
Behind the Silver Screen calls attention to the work of filmmaking. When complete, the series will be comprised of ten volumes, one each on ten significant tasks in front of or behind the camera, on the set or in the post-production studio. The goal is to closely examine the various collaborative aspects of film production, one at a time / one per volume, and then to offer a chronology that allows the editors and contributors to explore the changes in each of these endeavors during six eras in film history: the silent screen (1895-1927), classical Hollywood (1928-1946); post-war Hollywood (1947-1967); the auteur renaissance (1968-1980); the New Hollywood (1981-1999), and the Modern Entertainment Marketplace (2000-present). Behind the Silver Screen promises a look at who does what in the making of a movie … it promises a history of filmmaking, not just a history of films.
SERIES EDITOR
Jon Lewis, Oregon State University
Edited by Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Kim Price-Glynn
The rise of scholarly attention to care has accompanied greater public concern about aging, health care, child care, and labor in a global world. Research on care is happening across disciplines – in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, public health, social work and others – with numerous research networks and conferences developing to showcase this work. Care scholarship brings into focus some of the most pressing social problems facing families today. To study care is also to study the future of work, as issues of care work are intertwined with the forces of globalization, technological development, and the changing dynamics of the labor force. Care scholarship is also at the cutting edge of intersectional analyses of inequality, as carework is often at the very core of understanding gender, race, migration, age, disability, class, and international inequalities. We seek books that use a carework perspective and engage with the carework literature to examine the following specific topics (among others):
- paid carework, workers, and workplaces including education, health care, social service, nonresidential care, and households/domestic work
- relationships between care recipients and care givers (paid and/or unpaid)
- unpaid carework in families and communities
- care in a global context, including migration and care chains
- policy and activism related to carework, workers, and families
- theoretically engaged work related to the ethics or politics of care
- studies of technology and care
- scholarship on family or paid work that expands the boundaries of care theory/scholarship (e.g. personal service workers like nail salon technicians)
SERIES EDITORS
The editors are carework scholars and steering committee members for the Carework Network, an international organization of researchers, policymakers, and advocates involved in various domains of carework. Mignon Duffy is Associate Professor of Sociology at U Mass Lowell and a co-editor, with Amy Armenia and Clare L. Stacey, of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care. Amy Armenia is a Professor of Sociology at Rollins College. Kim Price-Glynn is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and a contributor to Caring on the Clock. Authors interested in contributing to this book series should send an extended abstract of no more than two pages to Peter Mickulas at mickulas@press.rutgers.edu for consideration. Any other questions can be directed to the editors at mignon_duffy@uml.edu, aarmenia@rollins.edu, and kim.price-glynn@uconn.edu.
Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History
New Jersey holds a unique place in the American story. One of the thirteen colonies in British North America and the original states of the United States, New Jersey plays a central, yet underappreciated, place in America’s economic, political, and social development. New Jersey’s axial position as the nation’s financial, intellectual, and political corridor has become something of a signature, evident in quips about the Turnpike and punchlines that end with its many exits. Yet, New Jersey is more than a crossroad or an interstitial “elsewhere.” Far from being ancillary to the nation, New Jersey is an axis around which America’s story has turned, and within its borders gather a rich collection of ideas, innovations, people, and politics. The region’s historical development makes it a microcosm of the challenges and possibilities of the nation, and it also reflects the complexities of the modern, cosmopolitan world. Yet, far too little of the literature recognizes New Jersey’s significance to the national story, and despite promising scholarship done at the local level, New Jersey history often remains hidden in plain sight.
Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History will be the primary place to publish new, rigorously peer-reviewed scholarship on New Jersey and the surrounding region. Named for the Roman goddess of prosperity portrayed on the New Jersey State Seal, Ceres provides a platform for cultivating and disseminating the next generation of scholarship. It will feature the work of both established historians and a new generation of scholars across disciplines. Ceres aims to be field-shaping, providing a home for the newest and best empirical, archival, and theoretical work on the region’s past. We are also dedicated to fostering diverse and inclusive scholarship and hope to feature works addressing issues of social justice and activism.
We seek books that represent the best scholarship to examine the following specific topics (among others):
- Scholarly accounts of regional places that are central to national stories
- Slavery, Society, and Culture in New Jersey
- Immigration and Community Studies
- Infrastructure and Local Politics
- Civil Rights Movement and Grassroots Activism
- New Jersey’s Role in Industrialism and the Economy
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Biographies on New Jersey Authors/Artists
- New Jersey in Popular Culture/Media
- Policing, Carceral Culture, and Community
- New Jersey and the World
- War, Politics, and New Jersey
- New Jersey’s Place in the Nation’s Founding
About the Series Editors:
The editors are historians Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University and Christopher T. Fisher, The College of New Jersey. Authors interested in contributing to this book series should send an extended abstract of no more than two pages to Peter Mickulas at mickulas@press.rutgers.edu for consideration. Questions can also be directed to the editors at mcmahonlu@wpunj.edu and fisherc@tcnj.edu.
Childhood Studies (Rutgers Series in)
The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies is dedicated to increasing our understanding of children and childhoods throughout the world, reflecting a perspective that highlights cultural dimensions of the human experience. The books in this series are intended for students, scholars, practitioners, and those who formulate policies that affect children’s everyday lives and futures.
Editorial Board:
Meghan C. Halley, Assistant Investigator, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
David F. Lancey, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University
David M. Rosen, Professor of Anthropology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Rachael Stryker, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Women’s Studies, California State University, East Bay
Thomas S. Weisner, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Founding Editor: Myra Bluebond-Langner Chair of Pediatric Palliative Care, UCL Institute of Child Health
For general information or to submit a proposal, please contact:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset Street, FL 3
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Comics Culture
Edited by Corey K. Creekmur, Craig Fischer, Jeet Heer, and Ana Merino
Volumes in the Comics Culture series explore the artistic, historical, social, and cultural significance of newspaper comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, with individual titles devoted to focused studies of key titles, characters, writers, and artists throughout the history of comics; additional books in the series address major themes or topics in comics studies, including prominent genres, national traditions, and significant historical and theoretical issues. The series recognizes comics of all varieties, from mainstream comic books to graphic non-fiction, produced between the late 19th-century and the present. The books in the series are intended to contribute significantly to the rapidly expanding field of comics studies, but are also designed to appeal to comics fans and casual readers who seek smart critical engagement with the best examples of the form.
SERIES EDITORS
Corey K. Creekmur, University of Iowa
Craig Fischer, Appalachian State University
Jeet Heer, Independent Scholar, Toronto
Ana Merino, University of Iowa
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Critical Caribbean Studies
Edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Carter Mathes, and Kathleen López
Already influential in postcolonial, literary, and race studies, the field of Caribbean studies still has much more to offer to contemporary debates throughout the arts and sciences and beyond. This series aims to contribute to these efforts, paying particular attention to the four main research clusters of Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, where the co-editors serve as members of the executive board.
- Caribbean Critical Studies, Theory, and the Disciplines
- Archipelagic Studies and Creolization
- Caribbean Aesthetics, Poetics, and Politics
- Caribbean Colonialities
Focused particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, although attentive to the context of earlier eras, this series encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methods and is open to scholarship in a variety of areas, including diaspora and transnational studies, critical theory and race studies, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, environmental studies, anthropology, history, geography, literary and cultural studies, and popular culture.
SERIES EDITORS
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Miami
Carter Mathes, English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Kathleen López, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Proposals for consideration should be sent either through regular mail or email to:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University
Volumes in the Critical Graphics series bring scholarly insight to single authors and their creator-owned graphic fiction and nonfiction works. Books in the series provide context and critical insight into a given creator’s work, with an especial interest in social and political issues. Each book is organized as a series of reader friendly scholarly chapters that precede the reprinting of short graphic fiction or nonfictional works—or excerpts of longer works. The critical insight and commentary alongside the creative works provide a gateway for lay-readers, students, and specialists to understand a given creator’s work and life within larger social and political contexts as well as within comics history. Authors of these books situate the work of their subject within the creator’s larger body of work and within the history of comics; and bring an engaged perspective to their analysis, drawing on a variety of disciplines, including medical humanities, environmental studies, disability studies, critical race studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Critical Issues in American Education
Edited by Lisa Michele Nunn, University of San Diego
The landscape of education in the United States is continually shifting. Rutgers University Press’s new book series, Critical Issues in American Education, provides a platform for showcasing the best scholarship that analyzes the historical and current forces shaping American educational institutions.
Taking advantage of sociology’s position as a leader in the social scientific study of education, this series will be home to the next generation of scholarship. Series editor Lisa Michele Nunn of the University of San Diego and the past-president of the Sociology of Education Association, works with Rutgers Press to identify authors and develop works that pull together empirical and applied bodies of work with social analysis, cultural critique and historical perspectives. The series will also host select books that work across disciplinary lines and the usual methodological boundaries, bringing topical and theoretical breadth. Anchored in sociological analysis, the series will feature carefully crafted empirical work that takes up the most pressing educational issues of our time, including federal education policy, gender and racial disparities in student achievement, access to higher education, labor market outcomes, teacher quality, decision making within institutions, and beyond.
SERIES EDITOR
Lisa Michele Nunn is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She is the author of Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture (2014, Rutgers University Press) and multiple journal articles on education, identity, and pedagogy, published in journals including Urban Education, The Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of LGBTQ Youth, and Insight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching. She is co-editor of Education and Society, a textbook in the field of sociology of education (under advance contract with University of California Press). The textbook is associated with the Sociology of Education Association, a national scholarly organization for which she is the outgoing President.
Submission Information:
Authors interested in contributing to this book series should send an extended abstract of no more than 2 pages to Lisa Nunn at lnunn@sandiego.edu and Peter Mickulas at mickulas@press.rutgers.edu for consideration.
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Edited by Raymond J. Michalowski
The Critical Issues in Crime and Society series is home to books providing critical analyses of contemporary problems in crime and justice. Series books cover a broad range of topics including specific types of crime, wrongful behavior by economically or politically powerful actors, controversies over justice system practices, and issues related to the intersection of identity, crime, and justice. The series offers thoughtful works that are accessible to scholars, professional criminologists, general readers, and students.
List of current titles in this series.
SERIES EDITOR
Raymond J. Michalowski, Northern Arizona University
Submission Information:
Before submitting a manuscript, please send a brief email of inquiry summarizing your project. Include brief descriptions of your proposed audience, the anticipated length of the completed book (in words, including all notes and scholarly apparatus), the book’s relation to any competing titles, and any planned special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Contact:
Peter Mickulas
Executive Editor
mickulas@rutgers.edu
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Edited by Janet Golden, Rima D. Apple, and Rana A. Hogarth
The U.S. healthcare system is coming under increasing scrutiny in the public arena, as elected officials, medical professionals, and citizens begin to grapple with rapidly increasing costs and overall declines in public health. In this context, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine books explore such contemporary dilemmas from a variety of perspectives, among them political, legal, historical, sociological, and comparative, and with attention to crucial dimensions such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture.
Examples of appropriate topics include:
- Health issues in immigrant communities in the United States
- The influence of media campaigns on consumer choice of drugs
- How gender affects medical education
- The role of globalization on the U.S. health system
- The role of identity politics in health activist communities
- Environmental health and justice
SERIES EDITORS
Janet Golden, Department of History, Rutgers-Camden
Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rana A. Hogarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submission Information:
Before submitting a manuscript, please send a brief email of inquiry summarizing your project. Include brief descriptions of your proposed audience, the anticipated length of the completed book (in words, including all notes and scholarly apparatus), the book’s relation to any competing titles, and any planned special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Contact:
Peter Mickulas
Executive Editor
mickulas@rutgers.edu
Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Edited by Douglas Hartmann and Michael Messner
Critical Issues in Sport and Society features scholarly books that help expand our understanding of the myriad ways in which sport is intertwined with social life in the contemporary world. Using the tools of various scholarly disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, media studies and others, books in this new series investigate the growing impact of sport and sports-related activities on various aspects of social life as well as key developments and changes in the sporting world and emerging sporting practices. Series authors produce groundbreaking research that brings empirical and applied work together with cultural critique and historical perspectives written in an engaging, accessible format.
Examples of appropriate topics include:
- Examinations of new and emerging sports such as mixed martial arts or roller derby
- Analyses of drug or steroid use in major sports at either the professional or amateur level
- Studies of the effect of statutes such as Title IX on the structure of collegiate sports as well as the broader social impacts of such transformations
- Treatments of sport as a site for reproduction or contestation of various forms of social inequality
- Empirical investigations into sport’s relation to health, obesity, and wellness
SERIES EDITORS
Douglas Hartmann, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Michael Messner, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California
Submission Information:
Before submitting a manuscript, please send a brief email of inquiry summarizing your project. Include brief descriptions of your proposed audience, the anticipated length of the completed book (in words, including all notes and scholarly apparatus), the book’s relation to any competing titles, and any planned special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Contact:
Peter Mickulas
Executive Editor
mickulas@rutgers.edu
Families in Focus
Edited by Naomi Gerstel, Karen V. Hansen, Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson, and Nazli Kibria
Families in Focus is home to cutting-edge books covering the breadth of scholarship on families and kinship. The editors seek books that explore families—as they adjust to changing intimate relationships, uncertain economic situations, and a larger global context than ever before. The series is especially geared to scholars whose work is attentive to family dynamics and the structures and cultures of inequalities among and within families. Families in Focus will publish social science research based on a variety of methodologies and will also occasionally publish synthetic pieces and edited collections.
List of current titles in this series.
SERIES EDITORS
Naomi Gerstel, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University
Rosanna Hertz, Wellesley College
Margaret K. Nelson, Middlebury College
Nazli Kibria, Boston University
Submission Information:
Before submitting a manuscript, please send a brief email of inquiry summarizing your project. Include brief descriptions of your proposed audience, the anticipated length of the completed book (in words, including all notes and scholarly apparatus), the book’s relation to any competing titles, and any planned special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Contact:
Peter Mickulas
Senior Editor
mickulas@rutgers.edu
In addition to foregrounding contributions of women-identified, queer, and non-binary artists, books in the series may address the intersection of feminist art histories with visual culture studies, material studies/new materialisms, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, global and transnational studies, performance studies, and more.
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Nela Navarro, and Natasha Zaretsky
As we enter the twenty-first century, genocide, war, crimes against humanity, and forms of mass atrocity constitute one of the greatest challenges that confront us. The Rutgers University Press series, Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights publishes cutting-edge scholarship from across the disciplines that enhance our understanding of such large-scale human rights violations and the principles and mechanisms that seek to prevent them, protect the vulnerable, and help victims recover. A partnership with the Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, this series seeks to break new ground not just by publishing outstanding new titles related to its topical focus but also in developing a unique arrangement that will offer many of the authors the opportunity to have their books translated into Spanish and, possibly, other languages.
This series will include academic books as well as books aimed at a broader audience of practitioners and non-specialist readers.
SERIES EDITORS
Alexander Laban Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Executive and Founding Director of Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights.
Nela Navarro is Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing, English Department-Writing Program, Rutgers New Brunswick and Associate Director of Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights.
Natasha Zaretsky, Clinical Associate Professor, Writing Program, New York University and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email to:
Peggy Solic
Senior Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: TBD
Email: peggy.solic@rutgers.edu
Global Film Directors
Edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
The volumes of Global Film Directors will explore cinematic innovations by prominent and emerging directors in major European, American, Asian and African film movements. Each volume will address the history of a director’s oeuvre and its influence upon defining new cinematic genres, narratives, and techniques. Contributing scholars will take a context-oriented approach to evaluating how these directors produced an identifiable style, paying due attention to those forces, both within the industry and national cultures, that led to global recognition of these directors. These volumes will address how directors functioned within national and global marketplaces, contributed to and expanded film movements, and transformed world cinema. By focusing upon representative films that defined the directors’ signatures, these volumes provide new critical focus upon international directors, who are just emerging to prominence or whose work has been largely ignored in standard historical accounts. This series, then, intends to open up the field of new auteurism studies beyond film biographies by exploring directorial style as influencing global cinema aesthetics,theory, and economics.
SERIES EDITORS
Homer B. Pettey is a professor of Film and Comparative Literature at The University of Arizona.
R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Global Media & Race
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
Books in this series will consider how race — and intersectional identities generally — is constructed in front of the camera and behind, attending to issues of representation and consumption as well as the making of racialized and anti-racist media phenomena from script to production and policy. This series responds to the growing area of scholarship on race and media, with its comparative and interdisciplinary approach to media and race. This series will publish books (single authored and edited collections) that will bring different analytical methodologies to bear on the exploration of race and media, helping define this scholarly area of study during this moment of great vitality and growth in the field.
SERIES EDITOR
Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Global Perspectives on Aging
Edited by Sarah Lamb
This series publishes books that will deepen and expand our understanding of age, aging and late life in the United States and beyond. The series focuses on anthropology while being open to ethnographically vivid and theoretically rich scholarship in related fields, including sociology, religion, cultural studies, social medicine, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, human development, and cultural gerontology.
SERIES EDITOR
Sarah Lamb is a professor of anthropology at Brandeis University.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email attachments to:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
and
Sarah Lamb
Department of Anthropology
Brown 228, MS 006
415 South Street
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02453
lamb@brandeis.edu
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
Edited by Enobong Hannah Branch and Adia Wingfield
Scholars disagree about the role that race and gender play in the labor market. On the one hand, they argue that gender and race fundamentally structure labor market opportunity, contributing to growing inequality. Yet others contend that while race and gender may be interconnected categories, they do not definitively affect labor market opportunity in the long term. This disconnect results from the fact that the study of work and labor and the analysis of the impacts of race, gender, and class often proceed on parallel tracks. The intersection of race and gender shapes the life chances of all workers, affording some privileges and others disadvantages that shape labor market behavior – including failures, detours, and successes. The occupational structure is a key location where racial and gender differences are transformed into class inequality, as well as a mechanism by which racial and gender inequality persist. Yet, the uneven distribution of workers across occupations and the grouping of racial/ethnic minorities and women in undesirable places is not comprehensively told.
This new book series on Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor will provide a platform for cultivating and disseminating scholarship that deepens our knowledge of the social understandings and implications of work, particularly scholarship that joins empirical investigations with social analysis, cultural critique and historical perspectives. We are especially interested in books that center on the experiences of marginalized workers; that explore the mechanisms (e.g., state or organizational policy) that cause occupational inequality to grow and become entrenched over time; that show us how workers make sense of and articulate their constraints as well as resist them; and have particular timeliness and/or social significance. Prospective topics might include books about migrant labor, rising economic insecurity, enduring gender inequality, public and private sector divisions, glass ceilings (gender limitations at work) and concrete walls (racial limitations at work), or racial/gender identity at work in the Black Lives Matter era.
SERIES EDITOR
Enobong Hannah Branch is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Her research interests are in race, racism, and inequality; intersectional theory; work and occupations; and diversity in science. Her book Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (2011, Rutgers University Press) provides an overview of the historical evolution of Black women’s work and the social-economic structures that have located them in particular and devalued places in the U.S. labor market. She is also the editor of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline (2016, Lexington Press) as well as the author of several articles published in The Sociological Quarterly; Sociological Perspectives; Social Science History; Journal of Black Studies; and Race, Gender, & Class.
Adia Harvey Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences and Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity at Washington University in St. Louis.
Authors interested in contributing to this book series should send an extended abstract of no more than 2 pages to Enobong Hannah Branch at eb726@odi.rutgers.edu, Adia Harvey Wingfield at ahwingfield@wustl.edu, and Peter Mickulas at mickulas@press.rutgers.edu for consideration.
Jewish Cultures of the World
Edited by Marcy Brink-Danan and Jeffrey Shandler
Jewish Cultures of the World publishes books that examine Jewish life through the methodologies of ethnography and cultural studies. It includes the work of anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, folklorists, historians, linguists, and sociologists, as well as scholars working in the fields of cultural studies, performance studies, and religious studies. Dealing with Jewish existence throughout the diaspora and in Israel, and including studies of Jews’ interrelations with their non-Jewish neighbors, this series offers books of interest to scholars in Jewish studies and those in comparative religion, cultural anthropology, ethnic studies, and other related fields. Jewish Cultures of the World is committed to publishing works of vivid ethnography and strong writing, books of interest to an array of scholars in the humanities and social sciences as well as to a general audience.
Published in association with the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University.
SERIES EDITORS
Marcy Brink-Danan is an anthropologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jeffrey Shandler is a professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email to:
Micah Kleit
Director
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
email: micah.kleit@rutgers.edu
Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership
Edited by Mary K. Trigg
The books in this series explore decisions women leaders make in a variety of fields. Using the case study method, the authors focus on strategies employed by each woman as she faces important leadership challenges in business, various social movements, the arts, the health industry, and other sectors. The goal of the series is to broaden our conceptions of what constitutes successful leadership in these changing times.
SERIES EDITOR
Mary K. Trigg
Proposals for consideration should be sent either through regular mail or email to:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
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Key Words in Jewish Studies
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Jonathan Boyarin
Key Words in Jewish Studies is a series of books that speak to the ferment in a rapidly changing field. Its goal is to provide clear and judiciously illustrated accounts of terms currently in use and to chart histories of past usage, so as to provide an entry into vigorous debate. Key words focus on the interrelationship of areas heretofore studied in isolation, and thus they provide the means to reorganizing knowledge in Jewish studies, consonant with current intellectual concerns. The books in the series are useful for the many new programs in the field, supporting teachers and proving attractive for course use. Far from consolidating and narrowing a critical lexicon, deciphering key words stimulates discussion about the boundaries of Jewish studies, its relationship to other forms of cultural studies, and the position of Jewish studies in the larger sphere of culture. With this series we open a new and exciting chapter in Jewish studies for the 21st century.
For more information on submitting a proposal, contact acquiring editor Carah Naseem at carah.naseem@rutgers.edu
SERIES EDITORS
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Executive Committee Member of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
Jonathan Boyarin is the Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Cornell University.
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Edited by Matthew Garcia
This series publishes books that deepen and expand our understanding of Latina/o populations, especially in the context of their transnational relationships within the Americas. Focusing on borders and boundary-crossings, broadly conceived, the series is committed to publishing scholarship in history, film and media, literary and cultural studies, public policy, economics, sociology, and anthropology. Inspired by interdisciplinary approaches, methods, and theories developed out of the study of transborder lives, cultures, and experiences, titles enrich our understanding of transnational dynamics.
SERIES EDITORS
Matthew Garcia, Professor of Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies and History, Dartmouth College
Lorena Oropeza, Associate Professor of History; University of California, Davis
Monica Perales, Associate Professor of History; Associate Director of the Center for Public History
University of Houston
Catherine Ramírez, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
David Román, Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity; University of Southern California
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Associate Professor of English
Arizona State University
Angharad Valdivia, Professor of Communications, Media Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Series Editors: Patrice Petro and Cristina Venegas
Media Matters focuses on film, television, and media within a transnational and interdisciplinary frame: environmental media, media industries, media and democracy, information media and global media. It features the work of scholars who explore ever expanding forms of media in art, every day, and entertainment practices. Under the co-direction of Patrice Petro and Cristina Venegas, the series is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Center seeks to foster innovative and collaborative research that probes the aesthetic, political, economic, artistic, and social processes of media in the past and in our own time.
Patrice Petro is the Carsey-Wolf Center Director and the Presidential Chair of Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously a president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and has written and edited numerous books, including After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship; Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices; Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s; Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the “War on Terror”; and Global Currents: Media and Technology Now.
Cristina Venegas is an Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has curated numerous film programs on Latin American and Indigenous film in the US and Canada, is Co-founder and Artistic Director (since 2004) of the Latino CineMedia International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, and has published Digital Dilemmas: The State, The Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
Series Editor
Lenore Manderson,
Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Books in the Medical Anthropology series are concerned with social patterns of and social responses to ill health, disease, and suffering, and how social exclusion and social justice shape health and healing outcomes. The series is designed to reflect the diversity of contemporary medical anthropological research and writing, and will offer scholars a forum to publish work that showcases the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness, and ethnographic richness of the field.
Books in the series may include studies on the organization and movement of peoples, technologies, and treatments, how inequalities pattern access to these, and how individuals, communities and states respond to various assaults on wellbeing, including from illness, disaster, and violence.
To submit a proposal for a new book to be considered for the series, please contact:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Nature, Society, and Culture
Edited by Scott Frickel
A sophisticated and wide-ranging sociological literature analyzing nature-society-culture interactions has blossomed in recent decades. This new series provides a platform for showcasing the best of that scholarship: carefully crafted empirical studies of socio-environmental change and the effects such change has on ecosystems, social institutions, historical processes and cultural practices. The series aims for topical and theoretical breadth. Anchored in sociological analyses of the environment, the series will be home to studies that employ a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate the pressing socio-environmental questions of our time – from environmental inequality and risk, to the science and politics of climate change and serial disaster, to the environmental causes and consequences of urbanization and war-making, and beyond.
SERIES EDITOR
Scott Frickel, Brown University
Norah MacKendrick, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Submission Information:
Before submitting a manuscript, please send a brief email of inquiry summarizing your project. Include brief descriptions of your proposed audience, the anticipated length of the completed book (in words, including all notes and scholarly apparatus), the book’s relation to any competing titles, and any planned special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Contact:
Peter Mickulas
Executive Editor
mickulas@rutgers.edu
New Directions in the History of Education
SERIES EDITOR
Benjamin Justice
New Directions in the History of Education seeks to publish innovative books that push the traditional boundaries of history of education. Topics may include: social movements in education, the history of cultural representations of schools and schooling, the role of public schools in the social production of space, and the perspectives and experiences of African Americans, Latinx Americas, women, queer folk, and others. The series will take a broad, inclusive look at American education in formal settings, from pre-kindergarten to higher education, as well as in out-of-school and informal settings. We also invite historical scholarship that informs and challenges popular conceptions of educational policy and policy-making that address questions of social justice, equality, democracy, and the formation of popular knowledge.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through both regular mail and as email to:
Peggy Solic
Senior Editor
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: TBD
Email: peggy.solic@rutgers.edu
New Directions in International Studies Series
Edited by Patrice Petro
This series highlights innovative new approaches to the study of the local and global as well as multiple forms of identity and difference. It focuses on transculturalism, technology, media, and representation, featuring the work of scholars who explore various components and consequences of globalization, such as the increasing flow of peoples, ideas, images, information, and capital across borders.
SERIES EDITOR
Patrice Petro is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and has written and edited numerous books, including Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices; Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s; Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror; and Global Currents: Media and Technology Now.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Edited by: Alessandro Vettori, Sandra Waters, and Eilis Kierans
The Other Voices of Italy series presents English translations of Italian works by authors past and present. Books in this series are not limited by genre—ranging from non-fiction to fiction, prose to poetry—and are chosen with the principal aim of introducing English-speaking readers to authors whose works have until now been marginalized due to the lack of available translations. It furthermore seeks to highlight contemporary transnational authors as well as writers whose works have never been translated or stand in need of new translations. A uniting feature of all the texts is their origin from the margins; they were written by people of non-normative sexuality and genders, they deal with problematic themes, or they reflect on racial and class discrimination, testimonies of oppression and abuse. As a series devoted to translations of Italian texts, it will foreground the role that translators play in the dissemination of art and knowledge as well as the status of translation itself as an art form that enhances the importance of cultural diversity. Accompanying each book in the series are essays by noted scholars that contextualize the authors and the texts themselves within Italian literature and, more broadly, within the literary canon.
Manuscript and proposal submissions are by invitation only.
SERIES EDITORS:
Alessandro Vettori, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sandra Waters, Managing Editor, Italian Quarterly, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eilis Kierans, Ph.D. Candidate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
List of current titles in this series.
Pinpoints is a series of concise ebooks created to explore complex topics by explaining key theories, current scholarship, and important concepts in a brief, accessible style. Each Pinpoints ebook, in under 100 pages, enables readers to gain a working knowledge of essential topics quickly.
Written by leading Rutgers University faculty, the ebooks showcase preeminent scholars from the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Pinpoints ebooks provide readers with access to world class teaching and research faculty and offer a window to a broad range of subjects, for a wide circle of scholars, students, and non-specialist general readers.
Rutgers University Press, through its groundbreaking Pinpoints series, brings affordable and quality educational opportunities to readers worldwide.
“I am proud that the Pinpoints series showcases the fine work of Rutgers faculty and puts Rutgers scholarship into the hands of readers worldwide.” —Richard L. Edwards, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University
The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Edited by Péter Berta
The intention of this series is to fill a gap in research by examining the politics of marriage and related practices, ideologies, and interpretations, and to address the key question of how the politics of marriage has affected social, cultural, and political processes, relations, and boundaries. The series will look at the complex relationships between the politics of marriage and gender, ethnic, national, religious, racial, and class identities, and will analyze how these relationships contribute to the development and management of social and political differences, inequalities, and conflicts.
SERIES EDITOR
Péter Berta, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom/Department of Communication, Budapest Business School, Hungary
p.berta@ucl.ac.uk
To submit a proposal for a new book to be considered for the series, please contact:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier (2018 – 2022)
Q+Public is a limited series of curated volumes that follow in the tradition of the seminal journal OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly. OUT/LOOK was a political and cultural quarterly published out of San Francisco from 1988 to 1992. It was the first publication to bring together lesbians and gay men after a decade or more of political and cultural separatism. It was consciously multi-gender and racially inclusive, addressed politics and culture, wrested with controversial topics, and emphasized visual material along with scholarly and creative writing. OUT/LOOK built a bridge between academic inquiry and the broader community. Q+Public promises to bring OUT/LOOK’s political and cultural agenda into the 21st century, to revitalize a queer public sphere, and to bring together intellectuals, activists and artists to explore questions that urgently concern all LGBTQ communities.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to: Qpluspublic@gmail.com
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Edited by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Wheeler Winston Dixon
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture offers succinct overviews and high-quality writing on cutting-edge themes and issues in film and media studies. Authors offer both fresh perspectives on new areas of inquiry and original takes on established topics.
SERIES EDITOR
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Willa Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Reinventions of the Paris Commune
Reinventions of the Paris Commune is devoted to the actuality of the Paris Commune—and the commune-form generally—in twenty- first century political and cultural life. Books in this interdisciplinary series will, among other things, extend our knowledge of the late-nineteenth-century event and its afterlives, trace other regional and national histories of communal traditions, consider the commune and various forms of occupation as political practice, and examine today’s re-centering of the emancipatory project, especially in the light of the destruction of the lived environment, onto questions of territory and inhabitance.
Series editor: Kristin Ross is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of several books on French political culture, including The Emergence of Social Space; Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988) and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (2015).
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Rivergate Regionals is a collection of books published by Rutgers University Press, focusing on New Jersey and the surrounding region. Since its founding in 1936, Rutgers University Press has been devoted to serving the people of New Jersey and this collection solidifies that tradition. The books in the Rivergate Regionals Collection explore history, recreation, sports, nature, health and medicine, the environment, the arts, and politics. By incorporating the collection within the larger Rutgers University Press editorial program, the Rivergate Regionals Collection enhances our commitment to publishing the best books about our great state and surrounding region.
Submission Information:
Micah Kleit
Director
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
email: micah.kleit@rutgers.edu
SERIES EDITORS
Lester D. Friedman and Murray Pomerance
Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
SERIES EDITORS
Lester Friedman, Emeritus Professor of Media and Society, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Aaron Baker, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
Sports and media have had a long and productive relationship. Media have transformed sports into a global obsession, while sports in turn have provided a constant flow of events to cover and stories to tell. This symbiosis with media has both sold sports as entertainment and enabled them to comment on issues and identities in contemporary culture. Movies tell some of the most insightful stories about sports, which have also been defined throughout their history by a convergent media landscape that includes print, radio, television and digital technologies. Books in the Screening Sports series will focus on the relationship between sports, film and other media forms and the social and culture issues raised by that complex collaboration.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
SERIES EDITORS
Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance
Each volume in this series presents original essays that analyze the movie star against the background of American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star remains the model for celebrity in modern culture, representing a combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck, authenticity, superficiality, and even ordinariness.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Style Discourse: Fashion, Art, and Culture
Edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas
Style Discourse: Fashion, Art, and Culture is a response to the broadening of cultural discourse regarding the crossovers between art, fashion, and popular culture. Its premise is that there has been a major shift in play, noticeable since the new millennium, in which the high-low divide of culture has all but broken down. Instead, we find that the “culture industry”, formerly deemed the organ of deception of capitalist consumption, is now a rich haven for discourse and critique. Fashion has a key role to play in this argument. With rare exception, until recently fashion items were relegated to the retail store and the museum, whereas now they are considered valuable components to art collections. With certain fashion has increasingly a critical function once relegated to art, art too is undergoing changes, especially the art that wishes to dissociate from the proclivity toward entertainment that has become the norm for the last 30 years. In short, this series is devoted to documenting the dynamic shifts in aesthetic and material cultures that have developed with extraordinary speed, and which call for new criteria of analysis.
Series editors:
Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Director of Doctoral Studies for the school of design at the College of creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author or editor of many books on the intersections of fashion and art. She is founding editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture and the founding editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture.
Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, a Faculty of the University of Sydney. With 25 years of artistic practice, his video installations and performance-based works have been exhibited throughout Australasia, Asia, and Europe to considerable critical acclaim. His Art: Histories, Theories, and Exceptions won the Choice Award for best academic title in art in 2009. He has co-edited many books with Vicki Karaminas, and is also the current editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture and ab-Original.
To submit a proposal for a new book to be considered for the series, please contact:
Kimberly Guinta, Editorial Director
Rutgers University Press
(848) 445-7786
kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
Please consult our website for submission guidelines:
Submission guidelines: https://rajuqagu.kinsta.cloud/manuscript-submissions
Techniques of the Moving Image Series
Edited by Murray Pomerance
Volumes in the Techniques of the Moving Image series explore the relationship between what we see onscreen and the technical achievements undertaken in filmmaking to make this possible. Books explore some defined aspect of cinema—work from a particular era, work in a particular genre, work by a particular filmmaker or team, work from a particular studio, or work on a particular theme—in light of some technique and/or technical achievement, such as cinematography, direction, acting, lighting, costuming, set design, legal arrangements, agenting, scripting, sound design and recording, and sound or picture editing. Historical and social background contextualize the subject of each volume.
SERIES EDITOR
Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu
Violence Against Women and Children
Edited by Judy L. Postmus
Millions of women and children are affected by violence across the globe. Gender-based violence affects individuals, families, communities, and policies. The Violence Against Women and Children series will include books written by experts from a wide range of disciplines including social work, sociology, health, criminal justice, education, history, and women’s studies. A unique feature of the series will be the collaboration between academics and community practitioners. The primary author of each book in most cases will be a scholar, but at least one chapter will be written by a practitioner who draws out the practical implications of the academic research. Topics will include physical and sexual violence; psychological, emotional, and economic abuse; stalking; trafficking; and childhood maltreatment, and will incorporate a gendered, feminist, or womanist analysis. Books in the series will be addressed to an audience of academics and students as well as to practitioners and policy makers.
SERIES EDITOR
Judy L. Postmus, Dean & Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland.
Send proposals to both:
Judy L. Postmus (digital copies only): postmus@ssw.rutgers.edu
and
Kimberly Guinta
Editorial Director
106 Somerset St., 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 848-445-7786
Email: kimberly.guinta@rutgers.edu
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War Culture
Edited by Daniel Leonard Bernardi
This new series will publish original manuscripts that address the myriad ways in which warfare informs diverse cultural practices, as well as the way cultural practices–from cinema to social media–inform the practice of warfare. Books will also illuminate the insights and limitations of critical theories that describe, explain and politicize the phenomena of war culture. Traversing both national and intellectual borders, authors from a wide range of fields and disciplines will collectively examine the articulation of war, its everyday practices, and its impact on individuals and societies throughout modern history.
SERIES EDITOR
Daniel Leonard Bernardi is a professor in the cinema department and interim dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (1998), co-author of Narrative Landmines: Rumors, Islamist Extremism and the Struggle for Strategic Influence (2012), and editor of five books on race and ethnicity in American cinema. A veteran of the Iraq War (2009-2010) and other overseas deployments, Bernardi brings his war experience, as well as his expertise in critical and cultural theory, to the War Culture Series.
Proposals for consideration should be sent through email to:
Nicole Solano
Executive Editor
Rutgers University Press
106 Somerset St, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(848) 445-7787
nicole.solano@rutgers.edu