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Timothy Mennel

Executive Editor

The Press has particular strengths in political, urban, and intellectual history, as well as the histories of capitalism, sexuality, and other subjects. These are embodied recently by Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality; Rachel Walker’s Beauty and the Brain; Nicholas Dagen Bloom’s The Great American Transit Disaster; Nan Enstad’s Cigarettes, Inc.; and Michael Denneny’s On Christopher Street.

I have a special interest in ambitious trade histories and biographies, such as Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s Fit Nation; Sam Franklin’s The Cult of Creativity; Wendy A. Woloson’s Crap; and Edward H. Miller’s A Conspiratorial Life. More journalistic and policy-oriented titles include Allen Goodman’s Everyone against Us and Lawrence Tabak’s Foxconned. Recent regional standouts are Neil Steinberg’s Every Goddamn Day and William Sites’s Sun Ra’s Chicago.

I joined the Press in 2013, having worked at Random House Adult Trade, Artforum/Bookforum, Princeton University Press, and the American Planning Association. I have consulted at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and elsewhere. I hold a BA from Carleton College and a PhD in geography from the University of Minnesota.

I am fortunate to have the help of editorial associate Andrea Blatz.

Prospective authors are encouraged to consult our submission guidelines. We also provide an overview about publishing with Chicago here.

Timothy Mennel

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