BOOKS
Selected Books Published by Editing Clients
Awards Won by Editing Clients
🏆 Shir Alon'’s book Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2025) won the 2026 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize.
🏆 Wendell Marsh’s book Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025) won the inaugural 2026 Islam in Africa Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa.
🏆 Katia Arfara’s book Curating the Commons: Socially Engaged Public Art (University of Michigan Press, 2025) was a 2026 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award Finalist.
🏆 Pacharee Sudhinaraset’s book Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination (Temple University Press, 2024) won the Association of Asian American Studies’ 2026 Outstanding Contribution Book Award in Literary Studies.
🏆 Laura McTighe and Women With A Vision’s book Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South (Duke University Press, 2024) won the Edie Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing (first book).
🏆 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.
🏆 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.
🏆 Cesar D. Favila won the Best First Book, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Muger en España y las Américas (GEMELA Awards) for his book, Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2023).
🏆 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 Prize in Ethnographic Writing (first book) 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
🗞️ Japonica Brown-Saracino’s book The Death and Life of Gentrification: a New Map of a Persistent Idea (Princeton University Press, 2026) was featured in The New Yorker and Publisher’s Weekly.
🎙️ Wendell Marsh was interviewed about his book Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025) on The Black Studies Podcast.
🗞️ Orlando Reade’s book What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost (Astra House, 2024) was reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and The Financial Times, and he was interviewed by The London Magazine.
🗞️ Laura McTighe and Women With A Vision discussed their book, Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South (Duke University Press, 2024) with The Immanent Frame and Political Research Associates.
🗞️ 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 was interviewed 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 was interviewed 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 was interviewed about her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University of Michigan Press, 2021) on New Books Network
🎙️Rebecca Bartel was interviewed 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 was interviewed about his book, A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity (SUNY Press, 2020) on the New Books Network
🎙️Liane Carlson was interviewed about her book, Contingency and the Limits of History (Columbia University Press, 2019) in The Revealer
🎙️Drew Thomases was interviewed about his book, Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) on the New Books Network
🎙️David Newheiser was interviewed 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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