Education

Ph.D.  in Philosophy, Fordham University, 2000
M.A. in Philosophy, Fordham University, 1993
B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, Bucknell University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991

Employment History in Publishing

Editorial Director of Three Hills and Senior Editor, Cornell University Press, 2008-2022
Acquisitions Editor, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006-2007
Associate Managing Editor and Acquiring Editor, Norton Professional Books, W. W. Norton, 2002-2006
Associate Editor, Macmillan Library Reference, Gale Group/Thompson Media, 2000-2002

Recent Presentations

   •  “How to Publish a Book with a Reputable Press.” Co-presenter. University of Georgia. Athens GA, October 2022.
   •  “The Pitch, the Proposal, and the Editorial Partnership.” Co-presenter. Cornell University Society for the Humanities. Ithaca NY, April 2022.
   •  “Communicating Scholarly Ideas in the Digital Age.” Co-presenter. Levin College Forum, Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH, February 2022.
   •  “Publishing for Municipal Historians.” Co-presenter. Association of Public Historians of New York State, Annual Conference, Oswego NY, September 2021.
   •  “Publishing in the Humanities.” Co-presenter. Bard College (virtual). May 2021.
   •  “Writing a Book Proposal.” Co-presenter. New England History Association, Emmanuel College (virtual), April 2021.
   •  “Humanists in Media & Publishing.” Co-presenter. Public Humanities Initiative in Doctoral Education, New York University (virtual), March 2021.
   •  “A Sense of Place in Narrative Nonfiction.” Sole presenter. Writers & Books: Literary Center, Rochester, February 2020.

Selected Publications

BOOKS
   •  Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell. Eds. Peter Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, and Mark D. Moorman. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016.
   •  The Active Life: Miller’s Metaphysics of Democracy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.
   •  The Maintenance of Criticism: Philosophy, History, and Community, by John William Miller. Eds. Joseph P. Fell, Vincent Colapietro, and Michael J. McGandy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
   •  “Diverse Careers, the Waning of the Prestige Regime, and the Rise of the Influence Economy in Academic Publishing” in The Reimagined Ph.D.: Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education. Eds. L eeann M. Horinko, Jordan M. Reed, and James M. Van Wyck. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
   •  “The Business of Publishing Concerns Us All.” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, September 4, 2018.
   •  “Introduction: Phenomenological Existentialism in America” in Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell. Eds Peter Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, and Mark D. Moorman. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016.
   •  “Digital Books.” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 41, no. 1 (2010): 28-30.