BOOKS
Books published by editing clients
Awards won by editing clients
Three books I had the pleasure of working on won prestigious awards in 2022:
🏆 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)
🏆 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).
🏆 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
🗞️ Samuel W. Franklin’s book The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History (University of Chicago Press, 2023) was reviewed in The New Yorker.
🎙️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
🎙️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
🎙️Yana Stainova about her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University of Michigan Press, 2021) on New Books Network
🎙️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
🎙️Yitzhak Lewis about his book, A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity (SUNY Press, 2020) on the New Books Network
🎙️Liane Carlson about her book, Contingency and the Limits of History (Columbia University Press, 2019) in The Revealer
🎙️Drew Thomases about his book, Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) on the New Books Network
🎙️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
Image: “Idiom” installation at the Prague Municipal Library