Katie Weaver – Editor

My dissertation research focuses on public opinion on foreign aid and looks at citizen cosmopolitanism, the welfare state, and immigration in relation to states' foreign aid policy decisions. M.A. en route, 2022.

Directed external relations of The Murphy Institute with respect to other research institutes, policy-oriented groups, and granting organizations. Wrote reports to stakeholders, including the boards of The Murphy Institute and Tulane. Edited and provided substantive feedback on draft book chapters and articles for faculty. Managed internal and external grant-funded activities and policy-related events. Analyzed legislation and conducted reviews of the literature to assist director in developing public policy initiatives.

Edited pre-launch materials and advised on communications and branding during the publication's first months. Assigned stories and worked with contributors on rewrites.

Acquired academic monographs and trade books in politics, area studies, and international relations. Edited trade and academic books across the social sciences and in philosophy. Managed co-publishing relationship with C. Hurst & Co., a UK publisher. Finalized co-publishing relationship with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Commissioned reviews and garnered blurbs. Composed jacket, website, and catalogue copy.

Edit and provide developmental direction to business plans, law articles, young adult fiction, college and graduate school applications, résumés, job applications, literary fiction, and more.