I am the Editor at Large at William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, where I take the lead on acquiring History titles targeted at a crossover (academic/trade) audience. I work closely with an editorial advisory board that includes thirteen distinguished historians.
Books currently in the pipeline include:
- Matt Jantzen, Confederate Theology: Christianity, Racial Capitalism, and Abolitionist Democracy
- Kim Hansen, Martin Luther King Jr. in Norway: A Peace Prize and its Legacies
- Paul Putz, Jesus and James Naismith: The Christian History and Meaning of Basketball
- Dixie Dillon Lane, Skipping School: Finding the Roots of Modern Homeschooling in the American Past
- Colleen McDannell, God and Money: American Christianity and the Battle Against Greed
- L. F. Ranner, Swordmaker: John Boswell and the Search for Gay Christianity
- Paul Sanchez, California Dreaming: Evangelical Christianity and American Culture in the Golden State
If you are a historian who wants to write for broader publics, please don’t hesitate to be in touch. You can drop me a line using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
One of my responsibilities as Editor at Large is to serve as a co-editor (with Kathryn Gin Lum and Mark Noll) of Eerdmans’s #ReligiousBio series. Established in the early 1990s, the Library of Religious Biography includes a number of award-winning books, from Harry S. Stout’s The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism to Nancy Koester’s Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life and Anne Blue Wills’s An Odd Cross to Bear: A Biography of Ruth Bell Graham. The series is aimed at a crossover audience of scholars, students, and educated readers who find in biography an inviting point of entry into broader religious histories. We are always open to pitches for new books in the series. Don’t hesitate to reach out using the form at the bottom of this page.
Some of the projects currently in the pipeline:
- Sarah Azaransky on Bayard Rustin
- William Stell on Troy Perry
- Matthew Quainoo on Francis Grimké
- Cara Burnidge on Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Brett Colasacco on Martin Marty
- Greg Thornbury on Karl Marx
- Daniel Silliman on P. T. Barnum
- Sarah Dees on Dolly Parton
- Kelsey Hanson Woodruff on Rachel Held Evans
- Mitchell Atencio on Clarence Jordan
- David J. Davis on Elizabeth I
- Patrick Connelly on Medgar Evers (foreword by Jemar Tisby)
- Noah Toly on Jacques Ellul
- Grant Shreve on Bill Wilson
- Vernon Mitchell Jr. on Aretha Franklin
- Joshua Parks on Walt Disney
- Rebecca Esterson and Megan Leverage on Helen Keller
- David Jones on Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Robert Revington on Lucy Maud Montgomery
For more on the #ReligiousBio series in particular, check out this conversation with co-editors Heath W. Carter and Kathryn Gin Lum, sponsored by the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism:
CONTACT HEATH ABOUT YOUR PITCH