Janice Audet, Executive Editor for Science

Executive Editor for Science

startquote Building on the Press’s distinguished tradition of leading authors and groundbreaking books, I pursue manuscripts that are distinctive, provide insight to critical questions, uncover new connections, and, ultimately, offer a new understanding of our world. Whether for a trade or scholarly offering, I work closely with authors to develop and refine manuscripts towards long-lasting impact in the scientific and publishing community. I welcome proposals across a wide variety of topics in the biological sciences, natural sciences, history and philosophy of science, public health, and medicine.

Recent publications include More than Medicine: The Broken Promise of American Health, by Robert M. Kaplan; Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, by Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi; Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking, by Cecilia Heyes; First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery, by Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr; Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria, by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill; and Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World, by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. endquote

Recent News

Christopher Robertson, author of Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It, argued at CNN Opinion that political wrangling over healthcare policy has focused too heavily on who gets covered and not enough on the quality of coverage—at prices affordable enough that those who are “covered” can actually seek the care they need.
On KPFA’s Against the Grain, Accounting for Slavery author Caitlin Rosenthal discussed slavery’s place within the development of American capitalism.
An excerpt from James Hankins’s Virtue Politics, on Machiavelli’s “war on virtue,” was published at Spectator USA; on the Quillette podcast, Hankins explained what Renaissance humanists can teach today’s politicians about statecraft.
At Smithsonian, Ai Hisano, author of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat, detailed the history of federal regulations governing, not the nutritive value or safety, but the appearance of foods.

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Jacket: Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, by James Hankins, from Harvard University Press

Q&A with James Hankins, author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

With Virtue Politics, James Hankins has delivered a bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance—from Petrarch to Machiavelli—that reveals the all-important role of character in shaping society, both in citizens and in their leaders. We spoke to him about the importance of virtue to leadership in Renaissance Italy—and its relevance to our own time.…

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‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’