Rowman and Littlefield International

About Us

Rowman & Littlefield is a globally operating publishing group with strengths in academic, professional, general-interest and partnership publishing. The publishing group encompasses numerous internationally-recognised imprints including: Rowman & Littlefield; Lexington Books; Globe Pequot; Prometheus Books; Bernan; Stackpole Books.

Sales and Marketing operations outside the US are conducted from London by Rowman & Littlefield International Sales & Marketing, with distribution from Milton Keynes, UK by Ingram Publisher Services UK.

Booksellers: Information on ordering from us can be found here.

Individual customers: Title information and worldwide delivery is available from our Shop. Customers based in North America should order from our US website.

Meet Our Team

Ben Glover

Ben Glover

Director of International Sales, Marketing & Rights

Ben cut his teeth in both international sales and academic publishing with Edward Arnold and then Hodder Education in the late 1990s. After a stint with Hodder & Stoughton, Ben joined HarperCollins as International Sales & Marketing Director with a particular focus on Collins Education, Dictionaries and Atlases. Ben left Collins to take a position on the Board with Kogan Page where he helped rebuild a sales and marketing operation for a new digital world. After almost 15 years in book publishing, Ben joined the global test publisher of the GMAT to lead its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before returning to the world of academic books with Rowman & Littlefield in 2017. Follow Ben on Twitter @benjaminharry72

Matthew Urwin

Matthew Urwin

Head of Sales

Matthew’s career in publishing started off selling to libraries and schools at Books for Students before a variety of Special Sales, Key Accounts and Sales Manager roles with Oxford University Press, A&C Black, Bloomsbury, ePubDirect, Oberon and most recently The Folio Society. With a broad portfolio of customers incorporating specialist interest, non-traditional, electronic, institutional, academic and trade, he is familiar with a wide-range of varied client requirements. Follow Matthew on Twitter @matthewurwin

Fazi Ramjhun

Fazi Ramjhun

International Sales Manager

Fazi studied design for graphic communication at the University Arts London after completing a printing internship in Leipzig. She worked as a bookseller for a decade in various general and specialist bookshops around London before joining Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. Currently, Fazi is studying bookbinding and Japanese at City Lit.

Alex Kind

Alex Kind

Marketing & Communications Manager

Alex joined Rowman & Littlefield's London team in 2018 equipped with marketing and editorial experience she gathered at various trade and academic publishers, including one of the leading German publishers in the humanities and social sciences, transcript Verlag, and the imprints Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare within Bloomsbury’s academic division. Prior to her move to the UK, Alex studied at the University of Bremen, Germany, for a bachelor’s degree in Art Studies and English-Speaking Cultures and a research master’s degree in Transnational Literary Studies. While in Bremen, she worked as an assistant in the Arts and Cultural Studies faculty and in the university’s press department. In 2018, she finished her second master’s degree in Publishing at University College London where she focussed on academic and theatre publishing. Alex is on Twitter @herr_kind.

Sean McDonagh

Sean McDonagh

Head of Rights

Sean joined Rowman & Littlefield from Bloomsbury where he held the position of Online Key Account Executive and worked closely with online retailers of print books and ebooks to promote Bloomsbury titles across their Adult, Children’s and Academic lists. Developing a broad understanding of publishing and evolving markets, Sean is keen to use his creativity and analytical skills to find new and sustainable ways of connecting contemporary audiences with the latest interdisciplinary research. Sean studied English at the University of Leicester and also spent a year at the University of Turin. Follow Sean on Twitter @seanpjamcdonagh

Rachel Twombly

Rachel Twombly

Rights & Permissions Assistant

Rachel joined Rowman & Littlefield as a marketing intern with the Publicity & Engagement team in 2019 after studying at the University of Maryland. After a few short months, she quickly excelled into a new role as Permissions Manager and assistant to the Director in the Rights & Permissions Department. Rachel combines extensive copyright knowledge with sales ingenuity to cultivate international relationships that further share Rowman & Littlefield's interdisciplinary scholarship with broader audiences and markets.