Gain advice and insights about the process of turning your dissertation into a book manuscript from Rachel Blaidfeder, commissioning editor at Cambridge University Press. This is a great opportunity for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to get guidance from a publishing professional and ask questions in a casual conversation setting!

Rachel Blaifeder commissions a broad array of academic, reference, and trade titles within Cambridge’s political science and sociology lists. Within political science, she focuses on comparative politics, American politics, and Latin American politics and also have interests in gender and politics, religion and politics, political communication, and political psychology. Within sociology, she focuses on political sociology, historical sociology, and social inequality. She is interested in books that tackle big questions, especially those that combine insights and tools from across the social sciences.