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AAR/SBL EVENTS
Tuesday, December 1 at 3:30 pmPenn Press @ AAR/SBL: Dyan Elliott’s The Corrupter of Boys
Please join us as Dyan Elliott discusses her new book—The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy—with Robert Orsi!
Wednesday, December 2 at 3:30 pmPenn Press @ AAR/SBL: Kirsten Fischer’s American Freethinker
Please join us as Kirsten Fischer discusses her new book—American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation—with Penn Press Senior Editor Robert Lockhart!
Our Acquisitions Editors
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
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Areas of acquisition: Cultural studies, intellectual and political history of the Americas, Atlantic World and postcolonial studies
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor
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Areas of acquisition: Atlantic history, American history (colonial through the present), history of the African Diaspora and transnational history, urban studies
Jerome Singerman, Senior Editor
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Areas of acquisition: Medieval and Early Modern European history, Jewish history, literary criticism and cultural studies
Selected series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion, Jewish Culture and Contexts
Jenny Tan, Associate Editor
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Areas of acquisition: Ethnography, anthropology, political studies