Editor-in-Chief Summit: Navigating Academic Publishing

John Beavers is the chair of the Department of Linguistics and the Robert D. King Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also the editor of Language, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America, from 2020-2025. He graduated in 2000 from UT Austin with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics and Linguistics, and earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from Stanford University. Beavers's research explores the syntax and semantics of the world's languages, with a primary focus on the nature of word meanings and how a word’s meaning determines how it is used grammatically. He is co-author of The Roots of Verbal Meaning, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, and he has published articles in many top journals in linguistics, including Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, and Glossa.

 

Sam R. Bell is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He was previously a professor and head in the Department of Political Science at Kansas State University and received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2009. He currently serves as the co-editor-in-chief of International Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association, and previously served as an associate editor for International Studies Review. He studies international relations, with a focus on the causes of political violence. Much of his current research examines international organizations and human rights, including projects on the roles that the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as non-governmental organizations, play in human rights outcomes.

 

W. David Bradford is a health economist and the George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on the design and impact of public policies affecting health behaviors and outcomes, with particular emphasis on substance use policy, pharmaceutical markets, housing instability, and decision-making under risk and uncertainty. A central area of his current work examines how cannabis and opioid policies influence health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. He also studies the links between landlord-tenant policy, eviction, homelessness, and deaths of despair. Dr. Bradford’s research has been widely published in leading economics and health policy journals. He is Co-Editor of Health Economics, serves on the board of the American Society of Health Economists, and chairs the oversight board for the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group. 

 

 

Julia Flanders is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University where she directs the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, and the Women Writers Project. She also serves as Editor in Chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal of digital humanities. Her research interests focus on data modeling, textual scholarship, humanities data curation, and sustainable digital project management. She is the co-editor, with Neil Fraistat, of The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, and the co-editor, with Fotis Jannidis, of The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources (Routledge, 2019).

 

 

Mark D. Hersey is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University, where he directs the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES). He has served as the editor of Environmental History since 2019.

 

 

Nathaniel Francis Holly joined the Press in the summer of 2019 shortly after receiving his Ph.D. in Early American History from William & Mary. He also holds degrees from Western Carolina University (M.A. in American History/Cherokee Studies) and Clemson University (B.A. in Philosophy). Most of his acquisitions orbit around the ever-expanding field(s) of American history, food studies, Appalachian studies, and regional trade. This last area of his acquisitions work includes books for the NewSouth Books trade imprint. He is especially interested in projects that employ interdisciplinary methodologies, articulate a bold argument, and use particular perspectives to recast seemingly well-known narratives — or illuminate little-known stories. He still publishes some of his own scholarly work which focuses on the urban lives of eighteenth-century Cherokees, public memory, and indigenous archival construction. You can read his work in the North Carolina Historical Review, History Compass, Early Modern Women, Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, and Indian Cities (Oklahoma, 2022). 

 

 

Jenny Rice is a professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of Kentucky. Her books include Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence, Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis, and Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics (with Casey Boyle). Her work has appeared in Philosophy & Rhetoric, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of Right-Wing Studies, College English, College Composition and Communication, among other publications. Rice’s research investigates public discourse around issues of extremism, pseudoscience, and fringe beliefs. She is currently editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

 

 

Christy Sadler is the acquisitions editor for political science textbooks for Sage College Publishing’s CQ Press imprint. In this position, she oversees first edition signing and development, revisions, and overall content strategy for one of Sage’s largest disciplines, working with some of the country’s top academic experts in political science to develop content that meets the needs of college instructors and students across the country. She joined Sage in 2022 after more than two decades of editorial and marketing work in higher education, public policy, nonprofits, and academic publishing. Sadler is a North Carolina native and currently lives in Raleigh.