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Acquisitions Editors

Harvard University Press is proud to publish works on a wide range of subjects. Find out more about each editor’s areas of interest and see recent works that are representative of their publishing programs.

Susan Wallace Boehmer, Editor-in-Chief

Michael Fisher, Assistant Director for University Relations and Executive Editor for Science and Medicine

Michael Aronson, Executive Editor for Social Sciences

Elizabeth Knoll, Executive Editor-at-Large

John Kulka, Executive Editor-at-Large

Ian Malcolm, Executive Editor-at-Large (Europe)

Kathleen McDermott, Executive Editor for History

Joyce Seltzer, Senior Executive Editor for History and Contemporary Affairs

Sharmila Sen, Executive Editor-at-Large

Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities

Conference Exhibits

Our Editorial Department exhibits books and greets attendees at dozens of academic conferences every year. View a full schedule of exhibits planned for the current year.

Proposal Guidelines

Read an overview of our proposals process: questions to consider when preparing a book proposal, information that should be included, and how proposals are handled.

Manuscript and Art Preparation Guidelines

The following documents [PDF] contain our most current guidelines for preparing a manuscript and any accompanying artwork for submission.

* Use this method for manuscripts in the social and natural sciences.

If you have further questions, please contact us.

Royalties for Foreign Authors

United States tax law requires that Harvard University withhold 30% of any payment to foreign individuals. However, foreign individuals who reside in countries that have a tax treaty with the United States can apply for an exemption from this requirement. See our page on royalties for foreign individuals for details.

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October 1: Excavating the Bay of Bengal: The historian Daniel Richter’s Before the Revolution is a centuries-deep excavation of the multiple pasts of the land that became the United States. “Excavation” is Richter’s own term, a metaphor that guides the book and offers a fruitful way of imagining the lineage of a land. “The American Revolution,” he explains, “submerged earlier strata of society, culture, and politics, but those ancient worlds remain beneath the surface to mold the nation’s current contours.” He describes these remaining traces, these temporal palimpsests, as “layered pasts,” the new always a product of the old, which itself must be understood in order to fully know the present. In hi…

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