Sage College DEI — Editor’s Desk

Beyond the Canon: The Role of Contributors in Edited Volumes* 

Believe it or not, textbooks are not always the answer in Political Science classrooms! For some upper-division courses, edited volumes are incredibly popular with instructors because they bring together leading and emerging scholars to focus on a common theme. As an Acquisitions Editor, it’s my job to ensure that our volume editors are producing an edition that will make an impact on the field. A strong volume will balance ...more.

Representation throughout Business Cases and Examples: A Quantitative Exercise for Quality Results* 

An important feature of many of Sage’s business textbooks are the examples and case studies that feature real companies and profile real people. Case studies are assigned by many instructors as a reading assignment, serving as a learning tool to connect real-world examples to the core content in our books. When considering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, we make concerted efforts to provide examples that represent a diverse group of people, companies, places, and ideas...more.

Updating Language for Sensitivity: How Focus Group Conversations Revitalized a Social Work Text* 

In an applied area like social work, Sage’s DEI efforts go far beyond the textbook page—they can directly affect the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. It is crucial that social work students have access to representative texts with up-to-date theories and research on issues like race, gender, sexuality, class, and healthcare...more.

Answering the Call for Inclusivity: The Creation of a Video Program that Reflects the Public Relations Field* 

For career-driven PR students, few things are more valuable and instructive than practical advice and applied approaches. Instructors told us that they wanted resources to help these topics “come alive.” With the field of PR becoming increasingly diverse in terms of audiences, brands, and practitioners—not to mention industry specialties and job responsibilities—our video program needed to cover a lot of ground to speak to students of varied backgrounds and interests...more.

Cozy Up with the Radical Copyeditor: My Go-to Spot When I Have Questions about Language Use* 

In 2021, Corwin invited queer educator and organizer Alex Kapitan to run a presentation titled “Liberatory Language Practices: Inclusive Language and the Powers of Words.” Alex (they/them) is a trainer, speaker, consultant, editor, and activist who left the world of nonfiction book publishing to start Radical Copyeditor, an anti-oppressive language project. This is often my go-to spot when I have questions about language use...more.

Putting Classic Research into Modern Context: When the social discourse has changed, how do we continue to incorporate older—but important—studies in our textbooks?*

Classic research plays an important role in informing all social science disciplines and modern research. However, given that many frequently cited classic studies are decades old, they don’t always read the same to the modern eye as they did to the authors’ contemporaries. When the social discourse has changed, how do we continue to incorporate older—but important—studies in our textbooks?...more.