“Ed Dimendberg has been a wonderful editorial Ariadne.  Without his guidance I would have been lost in the maze of the academic press for which he at the time was working.”

 

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

 

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“In the last twenty years, Ed Dimendberg has been an academic author, an acquisitions editor at a major university press, and long-time editor of an important series. It’s a unique combination of experiences and this makes him a unrivalled go-between and guide for the perplexed. Particularly now, when publishing is under intense economic and technological pressure, Ed is an invaluable resource for academic authors.”

 

Elizabeth Knoll
Senior Editor in the Behavioral Sciences
Harvard University Press

 

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“Edward Dimendberg combines the experience of an outstanding academic editor - whose record includes major projects such as the Weimar and Now series and The Weimar Republic Sourcebook - with the critical expertise and rhetorical skills of a superb scholar and writer. I have greatly benefited from his detailed comments on the manuscript of my forthcoming book, Cinema and Experience, and have found him a most perceptive, stimulating interlocutor in developing essential parts of it.”

 

Miriam Hansen
Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities,
Departments of English and of Cinema and Media Studies
The University of Chicago

 

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“Having worked with Ed Dimendberg in three capacities--as an author whose work he edited, as a co-editor of a mammoth sourcebook, and as a co-editor of a book series for the University of California Press--I am in a unique position to testify to his extraordinary talents. I have met no one who so effectively combines a genuine intellectual's love for ideas with the savvy of a publishing insider. At once imaginative and realistic, he has the experience, judgment and tenacity to help anyone cross the minefield of academic publishing.”

 

Martin Jay
Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley

 

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“When my academic book manuscript received mixed initial reviews at my publisher, Ed Dimendberg advised me to focus my efforts on resubmitting to the same publishing house. Ed provided invaluable guidance on crafting a précis and editing the manuscript, with the result that the book was ultimately published at my first choice of press, and within a short time frame -- the best possible outcome.”

 

John Culbert, author of Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity

 

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“Until I met Ed Dimendberg writing was a hermetic, airless experience. His editing is unsentimental and revealingly insightful. With his help, I have grown as a writer and gained new confidence. This has allowed me to take risks, and to discover my own voice.”

 

Lars Lerup

Harry K and Albert K Smith Chair of Architecture
Rice University
Houston, Texas

 

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“Ed Dimendberg understands what makes a project go from a good idea to a great book. He is broadly knowledgeable, responsive and thoughtful. He always stands behind excellent work and has an amazing eye for  how to frame research to promote what is most original. I count working with him as one of the genuine pleasures of my academic life.”

 

Vanessa R. Schwartz
Professor, History and Art History
University of Southern California

 

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“Ed Dimendberg is quite simply the best editor with whom I have worked.  Thanks to his vast erudition and long experience as an author and a publishing professional his recommendations are always pertinent and helpful.”

 

Matthew Biro
Professor and Chair, Department of the History of Art
University of Michigan

 

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“Ed Dimendberg’s encouragement and advocacy for my project gave me the confidence to complete my book when my own resources were waning. His sound structural advice on the book itself and his insights on the publication and editorial process were instrumental in bringing the work to press.”

 

Sharon Haar, Associate Professor
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

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