Johns Hopkins University Press
Founded in 1878, Johns Hopkins University Press (JHU) is the oldest university press in the United States. Today, it is one of the world’s largest university presses, publishing 95 scholarly journals and nearly 200 new books each year. Award-winning lists in history, science, literary studies, political science, and medicine reach a worldwide audience of scholars, students, and discerning readers.
Health Communication Book Series
Building on their acclaimed lists in medicine, the JHU Press recently launched a book series focused on Health Communication. The series offers a forum for the vibrant and growing community of researchers exploring issues related to health communication through rhetorical, critical, and/or qualitative lenses of analysis. This scholarship draws from rich primary sources to raise significant questions about the terms, phrases, and vocabularies used to construct “health” in diverse contexts, and it considers the implications of those constructions for individuals and the societies in which they live.
The first book in the series, Colleen Derkatch’s Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture, was published in December of 2022 and can be purchased here: Why Wellness Sells | Hopkins Press (jhu.edu) The second book in the series, Christa Teston’s Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, will be published in June of 2024 and can be pre-ordered here: Doing Dignity | Hopkins Press (jhu.edu)
Submission Guidelines
Proposals and inquiries should be submitted to: Matthew McAdam, Executive Acquisition Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press, mxm@press.jhu.edu and/or Robin E. Jensen, Series Editor, r.e.jensen@utah.edu
Proposals should include a prospectus with a working title and brief description; the context and your reason for writing the book; an overview of competing books; an overview of the proposed manuscript; an explanation for why you are the right person to write this book; and an annotated table of contents. Along with the proposal, include a curriculum vitae and a sample chapter. For more information, visit https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/information-for-authors/submission-guidelines.
Series Editor
Robin E. Jensen, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. She studies historical and contemporary discourses concerning health, science, sex, and gender, and is the author of Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term and Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924. Jensen is a former National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellow and Summer Stipend awardee.
Editorial Advisory Board
| Jeffrey A. Bennett, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Karma R. Chávez, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin |
| Tasha N. Dubriwny, Ph.D. Texas A&M University | Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D. The University of Oklahoma |
| Jordynn Jack, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Jenell Johnson, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Lisa B. Keränen, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Denver | John A. Lynch, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati |
| Aimee Roundtree, Ph.D. Texas State University | Shaunak Sastry, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati |
| J. Blake Scott, Ph.D. University of Central Florida | Priscilla Song, Ph.D. The University of Hong Kong |
| LaTonya Trotter, Ph.D. University of Washington | Guobin Yang, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania |
