Eli Bortz – Editor

With nearly 20 years' experience in professional publishing, I now provide authors insight into the many steps of the process. I can help you navigate the world of university presses, non-profit publishers, historical society presses, and trade scholarly and non-fiction publishing houses. I have experience in a wide variety of humanities and social sciences.

Managed operations of Notre Dame Press acquisitions department, including a staff of three, and acquired up to 25 books a year in regional and indigenous history and archaeology, global political violence and extremist studies, Latin American studies, Atlantic World and African American history, and colonial era and early American studies Books reviewed in Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Review of Books and elsewhere.

Initiated new lists in Latin American studies, Southern and Nashville history and several book series. Managed co-publishing relationship with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to produce books on music and music history.