Have you ever considered transitioning from the academy to a career in scholarly publishing? This overview of publishing outlets for scholarly work in the humanities will address topics such as: today’s scholarly publishing landscape, and possible career pathways from academia to publishing.
Adina Popescu Berk is Senior Editor and Group Lead in Humanities and History in the Reference group at Oxford University Press. She has been an editor at Cambridge University Press, Basic Books, Westview Press, and HarperCollins, and her editorial career has spanned the breadth of scholarly publishing, including reference, monographs, textbooks, trade books, and journals. She holds a doctorate in history from Columbia University.
Matthew McAdam is a Senior Acquisitions Editor at Johns Hopkins University Press. He acquires and commissions academic monographs, course books, and trade titles throughout the humanities focusing in particular on literary studies, classics and ancient history, intellectual history, and the history of science. Prior to joining Hopkins in 2009, he was the philosophy editor at Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Georgetown University.
