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Harvard University Press

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Harvard University Press
File:Harvard University Press logo.png
Parent companyHarvard University
FoundedJanuary 13, 1913
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Key peopleWilliam P. Sisler (director)
Susan Wallace Boehmer (editor-in-chief)
Publication typesAcademic publishing
ImprintsBelknap
Official websitewww.hup.harvard.edu

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P. Sisler and the editor-in-chief is Susan Wallace Boehmer.

The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England.

Notable HUP authors include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, and Carol Gilligan.

The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.[1] HUP has lent its name to the Harvard comma, because its house manual of style favors its use.

HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the Harvard Guide to American History.[2]

It distributes the Loeb Classical Library and I Tatti Renaissance Library series. It is distinct from Harvard Business Press, which is part of Harvard Business Publishing, and the independent Harvard Common Press.

Political ideologies

A 2011 study of the books published by Harvard University Press during the 2000-2010 period and connected to political ideology found that out of 494 only eight "had an outlook that was conspicuously either classical liberal or conservative".[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Last Chapter". Harvard Magazine. 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Bridenbaugh, Carl (May 9, 1954). "For Explorers of Our Past: Harvard Guide to American History". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  3. ^ Gordon, David; Nilsson, Per (2011). "The Ideological Profile of Harvard University Press: Categorizing 494 Books Published 2000–2010" (abstract). Econ Journal Watch. 8 (1). Atlas Economic Research Foundation: 82. ISSN 1933-527X. Retrieved September 24, 2011. Moreover, only eight of the titles (1.6 percent of the 494) can be counted as squarely Conservative or Classical liberal, while 198 of the titles (40 percent) can be counted as squarely Left or Communitarian. {{cite journal}}: External link in |format= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Woessner, Matthew; Kelly-Woessner, April; Rothman, Stanley (February 25, 2011). "Five myths about liberal academia". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 12, 2011.

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