Summer McDonald

Writer | Editor

Editing Projects

What follows is a selection of academic projects where Summer worked as the developmental editor. The asterisk (*) denotes a project done for Ideas on Fire.

A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s by Elizabeth Todd-Breland | UNC Press

  • 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society

  • 2019 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association

  • Co-winner of the 2018 Kenneth Jackson Award, Urban History Association

  • Honorable Mention, 2019 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians

  • Honorable Mention, New Scholar's Book Award, Division F, American Educational Research Association

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock | The MIT Press (two chapters)*

Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art by Lex Lancaster | manuscript (two chapters)*

Technologies of Incapacitation: US Torture Regimes and the Captive Body by Michelle Velasquez-Potts | dissertation (two chapters)*

Transforming the Elite by Michelle A. Purdy | UNC Press

  • New Scholar's Book Award, Division F, American Educational Research Association

  • 2019 GHRAC Award for Excellence, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council

Transforming Misogynoir by Moya Bailey | NYU Press (forthcoming)