The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarly series: Contemporary Asian Catholics (CAC). CAC will publish scholarly books that explore how the most populous continent, Asia, and the world’s largest religious organization, Catholicism, intersect and redefine each other. Through different case studies, the series aims at redefining ways of approaching and conceptualizing processes through which Asian Catholicism is produced, contested, and shared. CAC will foster interdisciplinary research on Asian Catholics in contemporary societies, with the aim of understanding the sociocultural dynamics that characterize diverse Catholic communities in Asian and Asian diasporic settings. The…

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce that William Masami Hammell has joined the Press as senior acquisitions editor. Will has 20 years of publishing and editorial experience, including over a decade in scholarly book acquisitions, most recently at Cambridge University Press, where he acquired new titles and managed multiple series in African and Middle Eastern studies, focusing on history, politics, religion, and anthropology. Prior to that, he was editor and director of publications at the Harvard University Asia Center, acquiring and producing award-winning monographs in East Asian studies. He got his start in book publishing at Temple…