The Mediterranean Seminar and Palgrave Macmillan Announce New Series
The Mediterranean Seminar and Palgrave Macmillan are proud to announce a new series of monographs and volumes of collected essays:
The series for the latest and most exciting scholarship in the new inter-disciplinary field of Mediterranean Studies.
In the past decade, Mediterranean Studies has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic fields in the Humanities. As a region whose history of connectivity can be documented over at least two and a half millennia, the Mediterranean has in recent years become the focus of innovative scholarship in a number of disciplines. In shifting focus away from histories of the origins and development of phenomena predefined by national or religious borders, Mediterranean Studies opens vistas onto histories of contact, circulation, and exchange in all their complexity while encouraging the reconceptualization of inter- and intra-disciplinary scholarship.
The Mediterranean as Region
We interpret the Mediterranean in the widest sense: the sea and the lands around it as well as the European, Asian and African hinterlands connected to it by networks of culture, trade, politics and religion. While the series emphasizes a timespan extending from Late Antiquity through Early Modernity, we welcome proposals ranging from late prehistory to the contemporary.
Projects engaging methodologies from history (political, economic, institutional, social), literary studies, history of science and technology, religious studies, art history, philosophy, ethnic studies, anthropology and sociology are welcome. Themes emphasized include ethnic and religious identity and interaction, cultural and technological development, conflict and collaboration, acculturation and transmission, trade and commerce, colonization and immigration.
Works that engage with and challenge established historical paradigms, meta-narratives, chronologies, and disciplinary boundaries are especially welcome. We are particularly interested in projects which have a focus “of” the Mediterranean, rather than “in” the Mediterranean, and which incorporate comparative, revisionist and inter-disciplinary perspectives.
What the Series will publish:
– original manuscripts or monographs with a Mediterranean Studies perspective or orientation
– volumes of collected essays
– scholarly editions and translations of primary documents
– translations of innovative scholarship previously published in non-English languages will be considered
– interdisciplinary, comparative, and revisionist work is particularly welcome.
The strengths of the series:
– first series dedicated to Mediterranean Studies as a field
– an editorial board and reviewers drawn from leading scholars in a range of fields and specializations
– all submissions will be subject to a rigorous and constructive blind peer review process
– integration of publications and authors into the projects and programs of the Mediterranean Seminar
Why publish with the Mediterranean Seminar?
– quick turn-around time from manuscript acceptance/submission to book-in-hand
– Palgrave Macmillan is a leading publisher of academic books with a worldwide distribution and marketing infrastructure and a strong commitment to sales
– promotion through the Mediterranean Seminar, a forum of over 500 specialists and consortium of projects and institutions, across the world and in a range of institutions
– except in rare cases (exceptional length or number of images), author subventions are not required
– your work will reach a broad audience
– volumes are competitively priced
– affordable paperback publication in many cases
Series Editors:
Brian A. Catlos, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder/Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Catlos and Kinoshita are co-directors of the Mediterranean Seminar, an international forum promoting research and pedagogy in Mediterranean Studies that has been organizing research projects, colloquia, conferences, and workshops dedicated to the development of this exciting new field since 2004. Every effort will be made to integrate series authors and their work into the programs of The Mediterranean Seminar.
Editorial Board
Our Editorial Board consists of scholars engaged in cutting-edge and revisionary work on the various aspects of Mediterranean history and culture utilizing a range of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
Fred Astren, Professor of Jewish Studies/Middle East & Islamic Studies, San Francisco State University.
Julia Clancy-Smith, Professor of History, University of Arizona.
Steven A. Epstein, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas
Maribel Fierro, Research Professor, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain)
Mercedes García Arenal, Research Professor, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (CSIC) (Spain)
Harvey (Chaim) Hames, Professor of History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Eva R. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Art & Art History, Tufts University
Carolina López-Ruiz, Associate Professor of Greek & Latin, Ohio State University
Karla Mallette, Associate Professor of Romance and Near Eastern Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
Christophe Picard, Professor of History, Université de Paris I-Sorbonne (France)
Dwight Reynolds, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cynthia Robinson, Associate Professor of Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Classics, World Literature, and Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of California, Davis
John Tolan, Professor of History, Université de Nantes (France).
Dominique Valérian, Professor of History, Université de Lyon (France)
David Wacks, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Oregon
Proposing a volume:
Proposals and manuscripts should be prepared according to Palgrave Macmillan’s guidelines and submitted directly to the publisher.
Prospective authors and editors are encouraged to first submit a query letter to the Series Editors outlining in clear terms the focus, scope, and methodology of the project.
Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher serving learning and scholarship in higher education, with headquarters in New York and London. Via the Macmillan Group’s international sales and distribution infrastructure, Palgrave books are sold throughout the world, including North America, Europe, Africa, the Mideast, and Asia. All Palgrave titles are rigorously peer-reviewed and published in print, as individual e-books, and on the Palgrave Connect online research platform (www.palgraveconnect.com) for scholars, students, and general readers.