The NYU Press Editors

Eric Zinner
Assistant Director & Editor-in-Chief
American Studies, Culture/Literature/Media, and American Cultural History
eric [dot] zinner [at] nyu [dot] edu

Eric Zinner publishes scholarship in American studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, communication, and American cultural history. His books have won multiple National Jewish Book Awards (2009 in Jewish Studies; 2009 finalist in Jewish Studies; 2006 in Modern Jewish Thought), the American Book Award, two Katherine Singer Kovács Book Awards (highest prize in cinema and media studies) (i ; ii ), the Alan Merriam Prize (highest prize in ethnomusicology), the best first book prizes of the Modern Language Association and the American Studies Association (i ; ii ), the Saul Viener Prize (best work American Jewish history), and the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, along with numerous additional prizes.

He is the press editor for the following series:
America and the Long 19th Century
American History and Culture
Children and Youth in America
Critical Cultural Communication
Cultural Front
The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Nation of Newcomers
Postmillenial Pop
Sexual Cultures

You can read an interview with him at The Minnesota Review.


Ilene Kalish
Executive Editor
Sociology, Criminology, Politics and Women's Studies
ilene [dot] kalish [at] nyu [dot] edu

Ilene Kalish acquires books in the areas of Sociology, Criminology, Politics, and Women’s Studies. With over fifteen years of experience in academic publishing, she has published books for the general reader as well as for the scholarly and professional reader. The books on her list are generally focused on issues of social justice, inequality, and current events. Her books have won over twenty-five academic awards, including the American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology (the discipline’s highest honor); the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, & Class Section, the Sex & Gender Section, and the Sociology of Sexualities Section (i ; ii); the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Outstanding Book Award; the Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award; the American Anthropological Association’s Ruth Benedict Award; the North American Society for the Study of Sport’s Best Book Award; and the Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association’s 44th Division (the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues). Before coming to NYU Press she was an editor at Routledge and Prentice Hall. She received a Bachelor’s of Arts in English Textual Studies and in Policy Studies from Syracuse University as well as a Masters of Arts in English from Syracuse University.

She is the press editor for the following series:
Alternative Criminology
Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century
Gender and Political Violence
Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities
New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance and Law
Possible Futures (A Co-publication with the Social Science Research Council)

You can meet Ilene at these conferences: American Sociological Association, American Society for Criminology, American Political Science Association, National Women’s Studies Association, Eastern Sociological Society.

Deborah Gershenowitz
Senior Editor
History, Law
deborah [dot] gershenowitz [at] nyu [dot] edu

Deborah Gershenowitz has acquired books in history and law at NYU Press since 2002, catering to scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers. Her books are primarily on topics pertaining to the United States, but she also considers work that is transnational or comparative. Broadly, she is interested in projects on race, gender, sexuality, and youth. More specifically, in history, she seeks books on social, cultural, political, and military history, spanning the early modern period to the present. In law, she seeks books on constitutional, criminal, and immigration law, as well as on law and society and legal history. Her books have received numerous awards, including the 2011 Lincoln Prize (runner-up) from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the 2010 Silver Gavel Award (honorable mention) from the American Bar Association, and the 2009 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History. Prior to New York University Press, Deborah was an editor at Palgrave Macmillan, Charles Scribners Sons, and, while working on a Ph.D. in history at Indiana University, The American Historical Review.

She is press editor for the following series:
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
Culture, Labor, History
Early American Places
Families, Law, and Society
Warfare and Culture

You can meet Debbie at these conferences: American Historical Association, Association of American Law Schools, Law and Society Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for Military History, Southern Historical Association.

Jennifer Hammer
Senior Editor
Religion, Psychology and Anthropology
jennifer [dot] hammer [at] nyu [dot] edu

Jennifer Hammer, NYU Press's Religion, Anthropology, and Psychology editor, joined New York University Press in 1992 as an intern directly out of college. Her BA is from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) in Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa). While working at the Press she earned her Masters in gender studies and feminist theory at The New School for Social Research.

Within religious studies, Jennifer is most interested in projects relating to religion in American culture, history, and politics, as well as the sociology of religion. Jennifer is especially excited about works on Catholicism, particularly within the U.S. Also central to the publishing program are works in Jewish studies, as well as American Protestantism and the mega-church movement. The publishing program in psychology focuses on social and developmental psychology (with an emphasis on adolescents), and psychology in relation to crime, law, and the justice system. Anthropology at NYU Press focuses on U.S. contexts, ranging from immigrant communities in New York City to environmental racism in rural towns. Her books have won multiple awards, including: 2008 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book of the Year, 2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award, and the co-winner of Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award.

She is the press editor for the following series:
Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
New and Alternative Religions
Religion and Social Transformation
North American Religions
Modern and Contemporary Catholicism
Qualitative Studies in Psychology
The Psychology and Crime Series
Social Transformations in American Anthropology

You can meet Jennifer at these conferences: American Academy of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Association for Jewish Studies, American Psychological Association, American Anthropological Association.