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Issues in Scholarly Publishing |
News of the people and presses that make up AAUP.
Promotions, Hires, and Staff Awards Amy Farranto and Sara Hoerdeman have been hired as acquisitions editors by Northern Illinois University Press. Amy and Sara will start in April 2008. Kathleen Sparkes, senior designer for the University of New Mexico Press, has won Bookbuilder's West best book design in the reference and scholarly book category for New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo, edited by Polly Schaafsma. Greg Britton has been named Director of Getty Publications. Until the end of January 2008, he served as Director of the Minnesota Historical Society Press & Borealis Books. Ann Regan will serve as Acting Director of MHSP. Gary H. Dunham joined SUNY Press as Director in January 2008. Previously, Dunham was the director of the University of Nebraska Press. Ladette Randolph will serve as Interim Director of Nebraska. Michael P. Burton, previously production director and interim director, was appointed the new director of the University Press of New England in October 2007. Parker Smathers joined Wesleyan University Press as an Acquisitions Editor in October 2007. David Cunningham joined the University of Arkansas Press as a Project Editor in September 2007. In September 2007 Gabriel Dotto became the new Director of Michigan State University Press. J. Alex Schwartz became the new Director of Northern Illinois University Press in September 2007. Garrett P. Kiely was appointed as Director of University of Chicago Press in September 2007. Emily Taber joined Temple University Press as an Editorial Assistant in August 2007. B. Byron Price joined the University of Oklahoma Press as their Director in August 2007. John Drayton was promoted to Senior Associate Director and Publisher at the University of Oklahoma Press in August 2007. Stephanie Williams was hired as the new Publicity and Promotions Manager at the University Press of Florida in August 2007. Kathleen Kornell joined the University of Illinois Press as the new Rights & Permissions/Awards Manager in August 2007. Joe Peeples joined the University of Illinois Press as Marketing Copywriter in August 2007. Dino Battista joined UNC Press as Senior Director of Marketing in August 2007. Gabriel Dotto became Director of the Michigan State University Press in August 2007. Puja Telikicherla was hired as Intellectual Property Manager and Julie Finnegan Stoner as Publishing Assistant at Georgetown University Press in July 2007. Elizabeth Ruggieri was hired as the new Awards and Exhibits Coordinator at the University Press of Florida in July 2007. Martin Voigt was promoted to Deputy Director of Amsterdam University Press in July 2007. He had previously served as Head of Marketing, Sales and Publicity. Three new hires at the University of Wisconsin Press in July 2007: James Leaver, Information Technology and Data Manager; Chris Caldwell, Publicist, Books Division; Toni Gunnison, Marketing & E-resources Manager, Journals Division. Seetha Srinivasan, Director of the University Press of Mississippi, has announced her retirement as of June 30, 2008. She will end a 29-year career at UPM, with 10 of those years as director of the Press. David Cavazos retired from the University of Texas Press in September 2007. Mary Lincoln retired in August 2007 from Northern Illinois University Press after 27 years at the helm. Kathy Ketterman retired in July 2007 from UNC Press. She had a succesful 30-year career first at Indiana then North Carolina. Leslie Bialler retired from Columbia University Press in May 2007. Yale University Press marks its 100th anniversary in 2008. University of Illinois Press celebrates 90 years of publishing excellence in 2008. Wesleyan University Press celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2007. Fordham University Press celebrates its centennial in 2007. University of Kentucky Press received the 2007 Business Award from the History Confederation of Kentucky. New York University Press celebrated its 90th year of publishing in 2006.
SUNY Press celebrated 40 years of publishing in 2006. Gallaudet University Press celebrated 25 years of publishing in 2006. Visit the press online The Pennsylvania State University Press was awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation to support the publication of a new book series, "Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures and Sciences." The University of Arkansas Press celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005. The University of Washington Press celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2005. The Press commemorated its history throughout the year with special promotions and events culminating in October, the month of Washington's first book. President Mark A. Emmert has stated of the Press, “It has been said that a great university deserves a great university press, and we are fortunate to have one of the best. Books published by the University of Washington Press carry the name of the University far and wide, serving the international community of scholars and the citizens of our own region.” The University Press of Florida celebrated its 60th year of publishing in 2005. Princeton University Press celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005. The University of New Mexico Press celebrated its 75th anniversary in June 2004. Beacon Press celebrated its 150th anniversary in January 2004. The Johns Hopkins University Press celebrated 125 years of publishing in 2003. Founded in 1878, the press is the oldest continuously operating univerity press in the United States. The Minnesota Historical Society Press received the 2003 Star of the North Award. The prize, given annually by Minnesota Barnes & Noble Booksellers, recognizes "those writers, illustrators, and publishers whose work captures the spirit of the North Land." Information on award-winning books published by member presses Ronald Mansbridge, initiator of Cambridge University Press’s American branch, died Friday, September 8th, 2006, at the age of 100. Mansbridge, originally of Sanderstead, England, supervised Cambridge’s American branch for twenty years until his retirement in 1970. Mr. Mansbridge was later acting director of the MIT Press and managing director of the London office of Yale University Press. Pam Upton, assistant managing editor and electronic manuscript specialist at the University of North Carolina Press, died on June 21, 2006, after an extended battle with cancer. She was 50. Upton joined to the UNC Press in 1982 as an administrative assistant, becoming a manuscript editor in 1986, and assistant managing editor in 1993; She took an early lead in the development of on-screen editing, not only at the UNC Press but in the AAUP as a whole, serving as an organizer and instructor for three electronic editing workshops, serving as a generous mentor to colleagues, and on the AAUP Electronic Committee as an editor of the association's Computer Newsletter. Matthew Hodgson, emeritus director of the University of North Carolina Press, died on Friday, June 16, 2006. A 1949 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he returned to the university in 1970, where he led the press for 22 years. Previously, Hodgson served as a developmental editor at the University Press of Kentucky. Under Hodgson's direction, UNC Press published a Pulitzer Prize-winner, one of the first regional encyclopedias, and built a $2 million endowment. An obituary was published in the News & Observer. Malcolm L. Call, past director of the University of Georgia Press, died in March 2006. Call also served as an editor at Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Marilyn Breiter, Marketing Manager of the Indiana University Press, died on Sunday, July 24, 2005, after a ten-year battle with cancer. Breiter first worked at the press in the 1970s and returned to the Indiana marketing department in the mid 90s. Contributions in her memory to Bloomington Hospital's Olcott Center for Cancer Education or the Bloomington Beth Shalom Congregation are welcome. Thomas Clark, one of those who founded of the University of Kentucky Press in 1943 and later the University Press of Kentucky consortium, died at the age of 101on June 28, 2005. Clark , a professor and chair of the University of Kentucky history department, authored more than 30 works of scholarship. The University Press of Kentucky is now housed in a building named for Thomas D. Clark. Read the UK obituary. Merritt Bailey, retired director of the Iowa State University Press, died at his home on March 15, 2005. He served as director for 23 years until his retirement in 1985. Previous to that appointment, Bailey was the Press's Sales Manager. Bailey served on the AAUP Board of Directors, 1966-67. Horace Coward, one-time sales and marketing manager of Yale University Press and founder in 1972 of the University Press Marketing Group, died on March 1, 2005. Coward was the recipient of the American Association of University Presses Outstanding Service Award; and in 1996 was awarded the NEBA Saul Gilman Award for distinguished service as a sales representative in New England. Remembrances can be made in his honor to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Daniel Goodwin, former director of Smithsonian Institute Press, died of cancer on February 6, 2005. Goodwin came to the Smithsonian as an acquiring editor in 1984 from the University of Texas, Austin, and served as director there from 1994-1998. He became the New York State Historical Association Director of Publications in 2000. Goodwin is remembered fondly by many in scholarly publishing. An obituary was published in the Washington Post, February 11. August Frugé, Director Emeritus of the University of California Press, died on July 6, 2004, at the age of 96. Frugé came to UC Press in 1944 and remained there for more than 30 years. He was a pioneer in taking university publishing beyond the academy—launching a paperback series and spearheading regional publishing ventures among many other programs. Frugé also served as president of AAUP for a number of years, and was an active member of the international scholarly publishing community. His book, A Skeptic Among Scholars (UC Press, 1993), is one of the best known personal accounts of the transformation of university publishing that occurred in the twentieth century. David McLeod, business manager of Georgetown University Press, passed away on July 17, 2004. Edvard Aslaksen passed away on January 11, 2004, at the age of 79. Aslaksen was a longtime director of Universitetsforlaget, the Norwegian University Press. He was educated at Little Norway in Canada, and graduated from the law school of the University of Oslo. For many years he was the president of the International Association of Scholarly Publishers (IASP). The IASP aims to assist scholarly publishers in developing countries with the production and distribution of scientific literature. In 1990, AAUP awarded Aslaksen an honorary prize for his valuable work in promoting scholarly publishing internationally. The Aslaksen Award was established to honor such international contributions to the field. |
