Elizabeth Knoll
Executive Editor-at-Large
Acquisitions Editors: Michael Aronson | Susan Wallace Boehmer | Michael Fisher | Elizabeth Knoll | John Kulka | Ian Malcolm | Kathleen McDermott | Joyce Seltzer | Sharmila Sen | Lindsay Waters
I work primarily in law, higher education, psychology, biological anthropology, and human development and evolution. I look for big-idea books about change across the human species and over the individual lifespan (not just childhood). In legal studies, I am particularly interested in criminal justice, intellectual property, and international law but am always on the lookout for books that put law in the context of contemporary social and economic problems. Books about how much the purposes, pressures, and structure of academic life are changing, based in strong research and clear-eyed analysis, are also very welcome—to the Press, and to academic readers in many fields.
Recent Books
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
George E. Vaillant
What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain
Living Originalism
Jack M. Balkin
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Brandon L. Garrett
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
William J. Stuntz
The Harm in Hate Speech
Jeremy Waldron
Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others
Paul L. Harris
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
Melvin Konner
