Harvard University Press (HUP) is a
publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
, and focused on
academic publishing
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. It is a member of the
Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou.
The press maintains offices in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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near
Harvard Square, and in
London, England
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. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962.
History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publ ...
and
Yale University Press
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, Yale Univers ...
. TriLiteral was sold to
LSC Communications
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in 2018.
Notable authors published by HUP include
Eudora Welty,
Walter Benjamin,
E. O. Wilson,
John Rawls,
Emily Dickinson,
Stephen Jay Gould
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,
Helen Vendler,
Carol Gilligan,
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...
,
David Blight,
Martha Nussbaum, and
Thomas Piketty.
The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.
Related publishers, imprints, and series
HUP owns the Belknap Press
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, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the ''Harvard Guide to American History''. The
John Harvard Library book
series is published under the Belknap imprint, which was established through an endowment from the estate of art historian and Harvard alumnus
Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr.
Harvard University Press distributes the
Loeb Classical Library and is the publisher of the
I Tatti Renaissance Library, the
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the
Murty Classical Library of India.
It is distinct from
Harvard Business Press, which is part of
Harvard Business Publishing
Harvard Business Publishing was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University (distinct from Harvard University Press), with a focus on improving business management practices. The company consists of thr ...
, and the independent
Harvard Common Press.
Awards
Its
2011 publication ''
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act'' by
Joe Roman received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Publications
References
Bibliography
*
External links
*
Blogof Harvard University Press
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