Jeff Dean Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I am the Publisher at Hackett, and acquire books in philosophy, applied ethics (e.g., bioethics, medical ethics, ethics and technology), philosophical/ethical approaches to issues pertaining to climate and environment, and in those areas where science and technology overlap with the humanities. I am primarily interested in books intended for students, or those learning outside the classroom interested in serious treatment of crucial contemporary issues and their foundations.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

As an Executive Editor at Harvard University Press I sought manuscripts in the physical sciences, engineering, and technology. I was particularly interested in work that brought these subject areas into contact with other domains such as policy, law, and ethics, and with disciplines in the social sciences and humanities such as psychology, history, and philosophy. In the physical sciences, I was interested in those areas most affected by, and affecting, planetary change and related human activity, including atmospheric science, Earth and environmental science, ocean science, hydrology, climate science, and geology. In engineering, key areas of interest included energy, materials, manufacturing, planning, transportation, buildings, water, and communications, with a special emphasis on sustainable engineering. In technology, I was looking for manuscripts addressing robotics and artificial intelligence, computing, nanotechnologies, virtual and augmented reality, human enhancement, and networked, mobile, or embedded technologies. I also pursued work in physics, astronomy, and cosmology. I especially welcomed scholarship addressing fundamental issues with far reaching theoretical or practical implications, and with a distinctive point of view. I worked with authors to develop both scholarly and trade books.

Burlington, Ma

I was Senior Publisher at Focal Press, publishing print and digital materials that help students and professionals in creative media learn and master the skills necessary for excellence in their chosen domains. Focal Press has since been absorbed into Routledge, and serves communities in photography, film, audio, animation, gaming, theater, and web design. My role was to help our editorial group do their jobs in a highly dynamic environment, and to participate in strategic business planning and development in the wider context of our parent company, Taylor & Francis.

Greater Boston Area

I was responsible for the development and direction of the philosophy books program at Wiley-Blackwell, and for managing several other editors in the Social Sciences and Humanities division. My main responsibilities included investigating and researching new publishing areas and developing publishing plans according to market needs and opportunities; developing plans for new publishing models and taking advantage of emerging technologies as appropriate and advantageous; drawing on and developing my personal network of academic contacts to research, plan, and sign new projects; negotiating contracts and maintaining author relations; working with my publishing subject team (including production, editorial and marketing) to monitor, manage and develop signed projects (which includes line editing draft manuscripts as the need arises); and ensuring that projects publish on time and on specification for their intended audience. I signed and published over 350 titles, ranging from multi-volume and single-volume reference works (all with online editions), to textbooks with ancillary and integrated websites, to research monographs, to academic trade books. I attended academic and publishing conferences regularly, visited campuses to meet with professors, and managed 3 acquisitions editors and an assistant editor. • Responsible for meeting publication revenue and profitability targets, as well as annual contract signing targets.• Manage three acquisitions editors, an Assistant Editor.• Experience conceptualizing, developing, and in some cases building websites and blogs via consumer sites (e.g., WordPress, webs.com).• Large part of job requiring project management, both externally with clients (authors, editors) and internally with other business functions (production, marketing).• Regularly collaborate with colleagues in journals on contract defenses, winning new journal business, and journal development.

Greater Boston Area

Acquisition of new titles, management of front and backlist, contract negotiation, author relations, project management and development, consultation for marketing and production, management of assistants and other editors.

Greater Boston Area

Acquisition of new titles, management of front and backlist, contract negotiation, author relations, project management and development, consultation for marketing and production.

Holyoke, Ma

Teaching ethics, including basics of ethical theory and applied topics.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Taught philosophy courses while earning my Ph.D.

Ph.D., Philosophy, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: American Philosophical AssociationStudied widely in philosophy, though for my dissertation I concentrated.

B.A., Philosophy, German

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta KappaI was a double major in Philosophy and German, and spent a semester studying abroad in Germany.