HUP Acquisitions Editors

Sharmila Sen

Sharmila Sen

General Editor for the Humanities

I seek and commission books on world religions, classics, and ancient history that appeal to a general intellectual audience as well as to scholars. I welcome books on religion written from diverse disciplinary backgrounds on a wide array of topics. Proposals organized around the following themes are especially welcome: religion in an era of globalization, religion and conflict, religious diasporas, fundamentalisms, ideas of secularism, communal violence and genocide, American immigrant cultures, religion and popular culture. In the classics (including Hellenic, Roman, and Byzantine studies), I am interested in cross-cultural transactions in the ancient world, new geographical orientations, and influences of the classical world on more recent eras. I also oversee the Loeb Classical Library, The I Tatti Renaissance Library, The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and The Hackmey Hebrew Classical Library.

Some recent books are:

Dreams and Experience
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
William V. Harris
Fires of Vesuvius
The Fires of Vesuvius
Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins
A Very Partial List
Aviad Kleinberg
Two Faiths, One Banner
Two Faiths, One Banner
When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's Battlegrounds
Ian Almond
A Bull of a Man
A Bull of a Man
Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
John Powers
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
City of Longing
Simon Goldhill
Burning to Read
Burning to Read
English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents
James Simpson
Histoires Grecques
Histoires Grecques
Snapshots from Antiquity
Maurice Sartre
Scribal Culture
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
Karel van der Toorn
The Roman Triumph
The Roman Triumph
Mary Beard