Over the past fifteen years, The Outside Reader has helped more than 500 authors hone their book ideas. We promise our clients confidentiality, so we can’t name names, but here’s what we can tell you: Our clients publish award-winning books with publishers you know and love.
Publishers
Our clients publish with university presses and serious trade publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Counterpoint, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Knopf, MIT Press, The New Press, New York University Press, Norton, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Polity, Princeton University Press, Profile Books, Routledge, Rutgers University Press, Seal Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Yale University Press, and others.
AWARDS
It’s our honor and privilege to bring out the best in our clients’ work. Our clients have either won or been short-listed for major book prizes from the American Association for the History of Medicine, the American Sociological Association, the History of Science Society, the Organization for American Historians, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and several other smaller societies that we can’t list here without divulging our clients’ identities. We are thrilled to have helped nurture a book that won the Bancroft Prize.
Institutions
Our clients are university professors, policy wonks, museum curators, and independent scholars. They include university provosts, a MacArthur Fellow, Biden White House officials, and theorists of community organizing. They work at institutions large and small, in the United States, Europe, and Asia. They work at Ivy League universities, flagship state universities, and branch campuses. These include American University, Arizona State University, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Case Western Reserve University, the Chemical Heritage Foundation [now Science History Institute], Clemson University, Colby College, Columbia University, Cornell University, CUNY, Darmstadt Technical University, Dickinson College, Drexel University, Duke University, Florida State University, Franklin and Marshall College, Georgia Tech, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Indiana University, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Kalamazoo College, Kutztown University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Michigan State University, MIT, Muhlenberg College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina State University, Northumbria University, Northwestern University, Penn State, Princeton University, Purdue University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University (various campuses), San Jose State University, Sarah Lawrence College, Seoul National University, Smithsonian Institution, Sonoma State University, Stanford, SUNY(various campuses), Swarthmore College, Texas A&M, The Science Museum, University College London, University of Arkansas, University of British Columbia, University of California (various campuses), University of Chicago, University of Delaware, University of Denver, University of East Anglia, University of Guelph, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Nevada, University of New Hampshire, University of New Mexico, University of Northern Iowa, University of Oklahoma, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vassar College, Virginia Tech, Washington University, Yale University, and others.