EDCMA

Get the lowdown on getting your research published and boost your academic career with tips from the pros.

Join Professor Kevin O’Neill (University of Toronto; Editor of the Atelier Series, University of California Press) for an informal and practical discussion on navigating the world of academic book publishing. Designed especially for Early Career Researchers, this session will explore how to develop a compelling book proposal, approach publishers, think strategically about series and audiences, and transform a dissertation into a first monograph.

There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so bring your questions about peer review, timelines, contracts, and finding the right press for your work.

Hosted by the Social Anthropology Department in collaboration with the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology.

This is an in-person event, aimed at Early Career Researchers, PhD students and staff. It is essential to book via this platform to guarantee your place. Refreshments will be served.

Please note that this event may be recorded. The recording will be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes only.

Our speaker:

Kevin Lewis O’Neill is the Dean of Arts and Vice-Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He is also professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science. A cultural anthropologist, O’Neill has written extensively on the politics of Christianity in Guatemala City. His books include City of God (California 2010), Secure the Soul (California 2015), Hunted (Chicago 2019), and the bilingual photography book Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela (Toronto 2020). An online exhibit for the Art of Captivity can be found here.

A 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, O’Neill now writes about clerical sexual abuse. His first book on the topic is Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church that Sent Him Abroad (California 2025). The next will be a global history of clerical sexual abuse that begins near the Badlands of New Mexico.