The Jepson Studies in Leadership book series is imprint for the best scholarship in leadership

The Jepson Studies in Leadership, a book series from Palgrave Macmillan, is home for the best scholarly work on leadership in both the humanities and the social sciences. No other published approach offers this distinctive liberal arts perspective on leadership. The Jepson School has faculty representatives from the disciplines of literature, economics, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration and religious studies.

Each volume in the series is dedicated to important themes related to leadership. This approach reflects the Jepson School’s broad-based, liberal arts approach to the study of leadership.

Jepson Studies in Leadership (JSL) charts a new path in scholarship. The primary journals and books in leadership studies focus almost exclusively on organizational leadership. As a result, our understanding of leadership often remains uninformed by the humanities and the social sciences. This new series is thus targeted for a wider scholarly audience.

The aim is to publish the work of the most insightful thinkers on leadership in highly readable collections that will sell well across intellectual boundaries. The volumes should be of interest to humanists and social scientists, as well as to organizational theorists and instructors teaching in business and leadership programs.

The core of the book series will be edited collections of papers presented at scholarly meetings. The goal of these colloquia is to apply Jepson’s multidisciplinary approach to central issues and problems of leadership. Volume editors will bring together, from various disciplines, a dozen influential scholars to think collectively and produce a book on the topic. Although the strategy of these conferences is to draw on well-established disciplinary strengths, the papers in the resulting volumes will nonetheless be informed by conversations across disciplinary perspectives. All papers will be collected and circulated among the authors in anticipation of the colloquium. Other conference participants are encouraged to read the papers ahead of time and play an active role in the development of the volume. At the conference, authors present their papers for seminar-style discussion, and they use the work in those sessions, as well as editorial feedback, to prepare their submissions for publication.

• The first volume, The Values of Presidential Leadership, is the product of the inaugural conference in 2005.
• The second volume in the series, Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education, is the product of a summer institute on the topic.
• The third volume, Leadership and Discovery, grew from a colloquium on the topics and will be published in November 2009.
• The fourth volume, Lincoln's Legacy of Leadership, is also in the works and grew from papers presented at a 2008 colloquium on the leadership of Abraham Lincoln.

Scholars interested in attending a colloquium or who have manuscripts or ideas for collections or manuscripts for consideration for publication should contact the series editors, George R. Goethals, Terry L. Price or J. Thomas Wren.