Experience — Philip Sayers

Books

A selection of books I’ve worked on as a developmental editor.

Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad (University of California Press, 2025)

Wendy Wolford, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique (University of California Press, 2025)

Marina Welker, Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia (University of California Press, 2024)

Bruce O’Neill, Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Laurie Denyer Willis, Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil (University of California Press, 2023)

Namita Vijay Dharia, The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction (University of California Press, 2022)

Articles

A selection of the journals that articles I’ve edited have been published in.

Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Comparative Studies in History and Society, Anthropological Theory, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Interdisciplinary: Economy and Society, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D

Religion: Journal of Islamic Studies, Islamic Law and Society

Architecture: Grey Room