Grant News!

I’m happy to share that I’m a lucky winner of a Publication Subsidy from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This grant will help to cover the (surprisingly high!) costs of procuring professional maps and paying for the rights to reproduce images that will appear in my forthcoming first book "Fighting Pirates, Forging Empire: Anti-Piracy and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Pacific."

Most early-career historians don’t give much thought to the costs of publishing their first book with an academic press (which is usually a better version of their dissertation) until they are deep in the weeds of it. A shout out to my wonderful editor at UPenn Press, Bob Lockhart, and my smart & generous ACU colleague Sarah Bendall who talked me through the costs and developing a budget.

The price tag for buying an image to reproduce varies wildly depending on who is selling. Some libraries and archives don’t charge any fees, while others charge several hundred dollars a pop. And things like whether the image will be reproduced in colour or if it will appear on the front cover of your book can also have an impact on the price you will pay for the right to use it.

Professor Kathryn M. Rudy’s article demystifies the real costs of getting a scholarly monograph to market in her article in The Times Higher Ed supplement.