Book Publishing: A Talk with Jennifer Hammer, NYU Press

Join the Office of Scholarly Publications on Monday, March 14, at 2:15 pm, in the Murray Room, 5th Floor, Lauinger Library, when we welcome Jennifer Hammer, Senior Editor at New York University Press.  Ms. Hammer acquires books in religion, anthropology, and psychology. Whether or not you feel that your work fits this editor's list, we encourage you to come to learn more about university press publishing today.

This event is co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Library, Scholarly Communication Committee, and Georgetown University Press.

About the speaker:

Jennifer Hammer joined NYU Press in 1992 as an intern directly out of college, and has continued her trajectory within the acquisitions editorial department over the past two-plus decades. She received an MA in gender studies and feminist theory from The New School for Social Research, and a BA from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) in Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa).

Within religious studies, Ms. Hammer is most interested in projects relating to religion in American culture, history, and politics, as well as the sociology of religion. She is especially excited about works on Catholicism, particularly within the U.S. Also core to the publishing program are works relating to immigration, race, and ethnicity, Jewish studies, secular studies, and American Protestantism/Evangelicalism.

The anthropology list at NYU Press is largely focused on anthropology in the U.S., anchored by the Social Transformations in American Anthropology book series and the Anthropologies of American Medicine book series.  Also of key interest are works on anthropology and the environment, immigration and race/ethnic issues, and the anthropology of religion.

The NYU Press publishing program in psychology focuses on psychology at the intersection of crime, law, and the justice system.

2:15 pm
Murray Room, 5th floor, Lauinger Library