Turning Your Dissertation into a Book - Professionalization Workshop

Abstract

Panel discussion with John Ackerman, Director of Cornell University Press, and two History faculty members, Aaron Sachs (author of two books, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, published by Viking in 2006, and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition with Yale University Press, which just came out in January of this year) and Camille Robcis, author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France, forthcoming with Cornell University Press this spring. Themes range from conceptualizing a book project to planning revisions to finding and approaching a publisher.