April 29, 2026
Wesleyan University Press is pleased to announce the launch of Sight Lines, a new book series devoted to vital scholarship on the significance of firearms in society, past and present. The series is published in partnership with the Center for the Study of Guns & Society at Wesleyan University (CSGS).
Sight Lines will serve as a home for today’s most important writing on guns and society, drawing from across the disciplines and beyond the academy. Distinctively, the series will focus on short, energetic monographs between 30,000 and 60,000 words—longer than a journal article, shorter than a traditional academic book, and designed to reach readers with timely, accessible arguments.
The series is edited by Jennifer Tucker, Founding Director of CSGS and Professor of History at Wesleyan University, and Brian DeLay, Professor and Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at the University of California, Berkeley. Darrell A. H. Miller, the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and founder of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, will serve as editor-at-large.
“Sight Lines aims to bring together the best new thinking on firearms and society and help it reach the broadest possible audience,” said Tucker. “By transcending the horizon of any one discipline, we hope to foster learning on this important and timely subject and to support authors — both new voices and experienced scholars — who are producing original, rigorous, and consequential work.”
The series is intended to reach academic specialists in firearms history, law, policy, and culture; academic non-specialists called to teach on the topic; legal, medical, and policy professionals; university students and libraries; and the general public. Sight Lines anticipates publishing two
to three monographs per year, with robust support for manuscript development, illustrations, and publicity. CSGS will further support the series through conferences, book events, newsletters, and its extensive outreach network.
The series is open for submissions now. The first publications are expected in 2028.
Submissions and inquiries may be directed to csgs@wesleyan.edu.
The Center for the Study of Guns & Society at Wesleyan University, advances interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement on the history, culture, policy, and impact of firearms.
Wesleyan University Press is a scholarly book publisher based at Wesleyan University. Established in 1957, the Press has a distinguished catalog whose titles have been recognized with six Pulitzer Prizes, three National Book Awards, and numerous other distinctions.