Working with University Press Publishers
October 4, 2024
Research Fridays
Start time: 12:00 p.m.
End time: 1:00 p.m
Location: Virtual
Description
Join us for a workshop on university press publishing in the humanities and social sciences with Matt Bokovoy, senior acquisitions editor at University of Nebraska Press. This comprehensive workshop will provide an overview of how to prepare books and articles for scholarly publishers, covering both the intellectual and business aspects of getting your work published. Key topics include: defining your audience; expanding your audience across disciplines and subject areas; defining the intellectual and literary aspects of scholarly writing, and working with acquisitions editors to develop your talent.
The workshop will also cover information about university presses’ place in a larger commercial book marketplace, economic challenges in scholarly publishing, and why scholarly publishing matters. All faculty and students are welcome to join.
About the Speaker
Matthew F. Bokovoy (Ph.D. History, Temple University) is senior acquisitions editor for Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Ethnography, Global Borderlands History, Memoir, and General Nonfiction of the American West at University of Nebraska Press, with over 60 award-winning books. He previously worked at University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Oklahoma State University in history of the American West, US social history, architecture and urbanism, and US and European cultural and intellectual history. He is former literary editor at University of Oklahoma Press and was editor-in-chief at the San Diego History Center’s Journal of San Diego History, with 22 years of experience in scholarly publishing. Bokovoy is the author of The San Diego World’s Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940, (University of New Mexico Press, 2005), and contributed to the museum catalog, Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s, (Yale University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a writing project, “A Revolutionary Age: America 1940-1975.” Bokovoy is a member of the board of directors of International Publishers (NYC), and KZUM 89.3 FM in Lincoln, NE, a Corporation for Public Broadcasting station.