Scholars to Storytellers: An Introduction to Trade Publishing

About This Event

Have you ever wondered about how trade publishing works, and how it differs from traditional academic publishing? Do you want to learn more about how to write in ways that engage a wider readership? If so, this workshop by John Ghazvinian (Scholars to Storytellers) is for you! Learn some basics about commercial publishing — its pros and cons, how it differs from academic publishing, and some resources available for scholars interested in making this transition. Bring your questions, as there will be a Q&A at the end of this Zoom workshop.

Live-captioning will be provided.

Featured Guests

John Ghazvinian, author, historian and former journalist, specializing in the history of US-Iran relations. His latest book, America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present (Knopf, 2021), offers a comprehensive survey of the bilateral relationship, based on years of archival research in Iran and the United States. He is also author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (Harcourt, 2007), and coeditor of American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020). Ghazvinian, who earned his doctorate in history at Oxford University, has written for such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, the Sunday Times and the Huffington Post. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities “Public Scholar” fellowship in 2016-2017 and a Carnegie Corporation special initiative fellowship on Islam in 2009-2010.

Ghazvinian previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Associate Director (2018-2020) and Executive Director (2020-2025) of the Middle East Center.