David Scott and Eric Schwartz
In a Library Chat conversation in Paris, David Scott and Eric Schwartz, Editorial Director at Columbia University Press, discuss David’s forthcoming book, Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History.
David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014), Stuart Hall’s Voice (2017), Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (forthcoming 2024), and, with Orlando Patterson, The Paradox of Freedom (2023). Scott is the founder and editor of the journal Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project. At the Institute, he is working on his biography of Stuart Hall.
Eric Schwartz is the Editorial Director at Columbia University Press. He was Senior Editor for Sociology and Cognitive Science at Princeton University Press, a job he has held since 2008. During that time he established a new list in cognitive science and revitalized the sociology list, turning it into one of the top lists in the field. Before moving to Princeton he was psychology editor at Cambridge University Press. He started his career at Springer as a manufacturing assistant and Oxford University Press as manufacturing controller. He became production controller at Cambridge and moved into the editorial department in 2006. Along the way he earned a Ph.D. in political science from the New School for Social Research. His BA, in international relations, is from the University of Delaware. Eric has been active with the Association of American University Presses and the Bookbinder’s Guild of New York.
