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BOOKS

 

Books published by editing clients

 

Awards won by editing clients

πŸ† Krista Dalton’s book How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2025) won an Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award.

πŸ† Reyhan Durmaz’s book Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond (University of California Press, 2023) was a finalist for the American Academy of Religion awards for First Book in the History of Religions and Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical Studies.

πŸ† Cesar D. Favila won the Best First Book, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Muger en EspaΓ±a y las AmΓ©ricas (GEMELA Awards) for his book, Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2023).

πŸ† Elayne Oliphant won the The Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for her book, The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

πŸ† Yana Stainova won the The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize and was a co-winner of the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University of Michigan Press, 2021).

πŸ† Rebecca Bartel’s book Card Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia (University of California Press, 2021) was awarded a Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize honorable mention.


Author Interviews & Reviews

πŸ—žοΈ Orlando Reade’s book What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost (Astra House, 2024) was reviewed in The Guardian and The Financial Times.

πŸ—žοΈ Samuel W. Franklin’s book The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History (University of Chicago Press, 2023) was reviewed in The New Yorker.

πŸŽ™οΈJamil W. Drake about his book, To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk (Oxford University Press, 2022) on New Books Network

πŸŽ™οΈElayne Oliphant about her book, The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris (University of Chicago, 2021) on New Books Network and in The Revealer

πŸŽ™οΈYana Stainova about her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University of Michigan Press, 2021) on New Books Network

πŸŽ™οΈRebecca Bartel about her book, Card Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia (University of California Press, 2021) in The Revealer

πŸŽ™οΈYitzhak Lewis about his book, A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity (SUNY Press, 2020) on the New Books Network

πŸŽ™οΈLiane Carlson about her book, Contingency and the Limits of History (Columbia University Press, 2019) in The Revealer

πŸŽ™οΈDrew Thomases about his book, Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) on the New Books Network

πŸŽ™οΈDavid Newheiser about his book, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2020) on The New Books Network



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