Penn Press's
ASA 2020 Sale

About Penn Press

Founded in 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press is one of the oldest scholarly imprints in North America. Penn Press publishes rigorous and thought-provoking work in the humanities and social sciences designed to advance knowledge, dialogue, and understanding.


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

Selected series: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law


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

Selected series: American Business, Politics, and Society, America in the Nineteenth Century, The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America, Early American Studies, The Early Modern Americas, Nature and Culture in America, Politics & Culture in Modern America, Radical Conservativisms


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: Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century, RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern


Jenny Tan, Associate Editor
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Areas of acquisition: Ethnography, anthropology, political studies


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