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Issues in Scholarly Publishing |
News of the people and presses that make up AAUP.
Promotions, Hires, and Staff Awards Dean Smith has been appointed as Director, Project MUSE® at Johns Hopkins University Press, effective March 10. Peter Mickulas has been hired as Rutgers University Press's new editor for sociology, criminology, and the history of science/technology/medicine/environment. Daniel A. Leary has been appointed Design & Production Manager at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. He has previously worked at the University of Minnesota Press, the Minnesota Daily and the Twin Cities Reader. John P. Hussey has been promoted to Director of Marketing and Sales at the University Press of Kentucky. Since April 2009 John has served in the same position in an acting capacity. Previous positions include Sales Manager at Kentucky and Assistant Acquisitions Editor at Illinois. Davida Breier was recently appointed Manager of Fulfillment Services at the Johns Hopkins University Press. She has previously served as Marketing Director of NBN Fusion, a digital publishing and distribution initiative, and as Sales and Marketing Director for Biblio Distribution. As of January 1, 2010, Timothy P. Doyle is the new CFO of Harvard University Press. Also at Harvard University Press, Stephanie Vyce was promoted to the position of Director of Intellectual Property. Robert O’Handley is the new Director of Operations at TriLiteral, LLC, the distribution facility for Harvard University Press, MIT Press and Yale Press. Jen Chen has been named to the position of Publicity Manager at the University Press of Kansas. Ranjit Arab has been promoted to Acquisitions Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he formerly served as Publicity Manager. Charles Watkinson has been named Director of Purdue University Press, effective September 1, 2009. He currently serves as director of publications for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Patrick Alexander has been appointed Director of Penn State University Press effective July 2009. He has been with the press since 2007, formerly serving as associate director and editor-in-chief and as the co-director of Penn State University Libraries' Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing. Gita Manaktala has been named Editorial Director for the MIT Press effective March 16, 2009. She has worked at the MIT Press since 1990, most recently as Director of Marketing. Kerry Webb will join the University of Tennessee Press as acquisitions editor, effective March 2, 2009. She formerly served as acquisitions assistant at Louisiana State University Press. David Bishop will become the Interim Director of the Northwestern University Press, as of February 23, 2009. David was the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian at Northwestern from 1992 until 2006, and starting in 2002 he was asked to assume oversight of the University Press. At Penn State University Press, Laura Reed-Morrisson has been promoted to managing editor, and Patty Mitchell has been promoted to production coordinator of books and journals, as of February 2009. Fredric Nachbaur has been named Director of Fordham University Press effective February 17, 2009. Previously, Nachbaur was Marketing and Sales Director of NYU Press. Donna A. Shear has been named director of the University of Nebraska Press effective March 1, 2009. Prior to this appointment, Shear had been director of the Northwestern University Press since 2003. Glenda Cotter has been named Acting Director of the University of Utah Press, effective January 12, 2009. She will also continue in her current role as Managing Editor. She has been with the Press since 1990. In June, SUNY Press welcomed Marcia Moss as Development Officer, and in August, Zachary Moning as Editorial Assistant. Henry Carrigan has been promoted to Assistant Director of Northwestern University Press, effective September 1. Anne Gendler, also at Northwestern University Press, has been promoted to Managing Editor and Manager of Design and Production. Scot Danforth has been named Director of the University of Tennessee Press, becoming just the fourth director of the press since its founding in 1940. Joyce Harrison will join Kent State University Press as an Acquiring Editor, effective August 4. Sheila Leary has been named director of the University of Wisconsin Press. She has been with Wisconsin for 18 years, and had been serving as interim director since 2005. Pamela McClanahan has been appointed Director of the Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books. Thomas Bacher has been named the director of The University of Akron Press. Prior to this appointment, Bacher had been director of the Purdue University Press since 1997. Seetha Srinivasan has announced her retirement from the University Press of Mississippi, effective June 30. She has served as Director of the press for ten years, and has been with Mississippi since 1979. Leila W. Salisbury will be taking over as Director in July. Amy Farranto and Sara Hoerdeman have been hired as acquisitions editors by Northern Illinois University Press. 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. Bill Bishop has retired as Manager of Fulfillment Services at the Johns Hopkins University Press. William Lindsay retired as CFO of Harvard University Press after 18 years, effective December 31, 2009. Tony Crouch, Director of Design and Production at the University of California Press, retired at the end of June after a 21 year career with the press. Crouch was the winner of the 2009 AAUP Constituency Award. Deborah Kirshman, Director of Development and Public Relations at the University of California Press, will retire June 30, 2009, after 24 years with the press. She will continue part-time at the press as an art history editor. Suzette Griffith, Managing Editor at the Unviersity of Alabama Press, will retire at the end of April 2009, after eighteen years with the press. Dr Henry Reece, Secretary to the Delegates and Chief Executive of Oxford University Press (OUP), has announced that he will retire in June 2009 after eleven years in the position. Cherene Holland retired from Penn State University Press in September 2008. Cherene had worked at the Press for 23 years and had been Managing Editor for the past 20 years. 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. University of California Press received the Longtime Leader Award for book publishing in the SustainPrint Awards, produced by Book Business and Publishing Executive magazines. Georgetown University Press was named #3 of the top ten "Best Book Publishing Companies to Work for in the US" by Book Business Magazine. 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 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 university press in the United States. Information on award-winning books published by member presses Bruce Roberts passed away on March 13, 2010. Bruce had been sales and marketing manager at the University of Utah Press since 2007, and was known by many in the book business as one of the partners of Salt Lake City's counterculture bookstore, Cosmic Aeroplane, which closed in 1991. Allen Fitchen died on December 25, 2009. He had served as director of the University of Wisconsin Press from 1982 to 1998 and senior editor at the University of Chicago Press from 1967 to 1982. Will Powers, design and production manager at the Minnesota Historical Society Press for 11 years, passed away on August 25, 2009. Maud Wilcox, former Harvard University Press editor-in-chief, passed away on June 25, 2009. Wilcox began her career at Harvard as executive editor in 1958, rising to editor-in-chief from 1973 until her retirement in 1989. She was also an active member of AAUP, serving as vice-president in 1978-79, on the Board of Directors, and as chair of several committees. Leslie E. Phillabaum, director emeritus of Louisiana State University, died in January 2009. Phillabaum worked as a manuscript editor at Penn State Press, editor in chief at University of North Carolina Press, and in 1970 moved to LSU Press as executive editor and then director in 1975. He served a term as president of AAUP, and he co-authored, with Sheldon Meyer, the invaluable pamphlet “What Is a University Press?”. Richard G. Underwood died on Wednesday, Sep. 24, age 89. In addition to holding positions at University of Oklahoma Press and University of Texas Press, he was director at Syracuse University Press from 1960-1975. 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. |
