Susan Boehmer

Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief at Harvard University Press (retired)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

As assistant director of HUP and head of its 30-person Editorial Department from 2009 to 2019, I supervised acquisitions editors in developing an annual list of 200 new publications. The department was also responsible for ms preparation/copyediting; composition; final file production for print/ebooks; digital publications development; descriptive copy writing; bibliographic database management; awards program; and client coordination for distributed books. Among the authors I edited (in no particular order): Stanley Fish, Lani Guinier, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gilles Kepel, Mary Beard, Sarah Hrdy, Thomas McCraw, Robert Jackall, Hans Moravec, Roger Fisher, Ronald Heifetz, Nathan Glazer, Jerome Kagan, Alan Lightman, Gore Vidal, Henry Petroski, Ezra Vogel, Freeman Dyson, Gerald Grant, Allan Millett, Williamson Murray, Robert Scales, Evelyn Fox Keller, Robert Mnookin, John Lewis Gaddis, Michael Ruse, Walter Johnson, McKenzie Wark, Allison Jolly, James McGregor, David Kaiser, Linda Nochlin, Carol Gilligan, Ralph Franklin, David Elkind, Robert Venturi, Ira Berlin, Cass Sunstein, JoAnn Manson, Denise Scott-Brown, Benjamin Ferencz, Oleg Grabar, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Lawrence Slobodkin, John Bethell, Avishai Margalit, Theodore Friend, Stephen Skowronek, Paul Sniderman, Gary Sandefur, Sara McLanahan, Michael Piore, Anthony Wallace, Edward Hundert, David Nathan, Richard Lester, Dieter Kuhn, Owen Fiss, Solomon Synder, Aida Donald, Mark Neely, Louis Crompton, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Mark Edward Lewis, Eduard Sekler, Frank Furstenberg, Andrew Cherlin, Riccardo Giacconi, Timothy Blanning, Nicholas Humphrey, Merlin Donald, Susan Estrich, Trevor Pinch, Ronald Steel, Neil Smelser, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, George Whitesides, Mel Konner, David Edwards, Michael Rawson, Timothy Brook, William Rowe, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, George Hanfmann, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Erik Erikson, Samuel Beer, I. B. Cohen, John King Fairbank, Norman Geschwind, Arthur Kornberg, Fred Whipple, John Moore, Ernst Mayr

Experience

  • Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief (retired) at Harvard University Press
    Jan 2016 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Editor-in-Chief at Harvard University
    Jul 2009 - Mar 2019 · 9 yrs 9 mos

  • Executive Editor for Trade Book Development at Harvard University Press
    2004 - 2009 · 5 yrs

  • Harvard University Press (24 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Editor for Manuscript Development
      1984 - 2003 · 19 yrs

    • Associate Editor for Science and Medicine
      1979 - 1984 · 5 yrs

  • Manuscript Editor, Harvard Medical School Health Letter at Harvard Medical School
    1980 - 1986 · 6 yrs