The ASA Rose Series in Sociology

The Rose Series publishes policy-relevant books intended to be accessible to policy makers and journalists as well as to sociologists. Although the editors and board of the Rose Series actively solicit manuscripts, we also welcome submissions, both proposals and completed manuscripts.

Most of our submissions are book proposals rather than completed manuscripts; if a proposal is accepted, an author is offered an advance contract and a cash advance. Proposals are typically seven to ten pages setting forth the book's argument, explaining the data on which it will be based, specifying the audience to which the book will be addressed, and indicating how the work will contribute to the field. Proposals are usually more effective when accompanied by a vita, a chapter outline and, especially, one or more sample chapters.

The editors often work with authors to revise proposals. We are also happy to be sounded out with much briefer queries asking whether a submission would be appropriate. When a proposal is accepted, a tentative timetable is agreed upon, and we schedule an author visit to Amherst at the University of Massachusetts (or to New York, at the Russell Sage Foundation). That visit takes place when the work is about half or two-thirds complete -- a point when enough is done to indicate the general direction of the project, but when there is still time to revise and benefit from feedback. As with other scholarly books, the completed manuscript is sent to two referees who evaluate the work and provide suggestions for revision.

Editors: Douglas Anderton, Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, Joya Misra, Randall Stokes, Robert Zussman

Editorial Board: Margaret Andersen, Richard A. Berk, Suzanne M. Bianchi, Fred Block, Hector L. Delgado, Paula England, Neil Fligstein, Joshua Gamson, Herbert J. Gans, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Rosanna Hertz, James Jasper, Edward O. Laumann, Cora B. Marrett, Katrina B. McDonald, Ruth Milkman, Stacy Oliker, Peter H. Rossi, Denise A. Segura, Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Linda J. Waite Michael J. White, Christopher Winship