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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Founder | Marion Berghahn |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Distribution | Turpin Distribution (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, India) Ingram Academic (United States, Australia, New Zealand)[1] |
| Publication types | Books,Academic journals |
| Official website | www |
Berghahn Books is a New York- and Oxford-basedpublisher ofscholarly books andacademic journals in thehumanities andsocial sciences, with a special focus onsocial andcultural anthropology,European history,politics, andfilm andmedia studies. It was founded in 1994 by Marion Berghahn.[2]
Every year, Berghahn Books publishes approximately 140 new titles and around 80 paperback editionspaperback editions and has abacklist of nearly 2,500 titles in print. New titles are published in both print andonline, with the selectdigitization of the backlist currently being undertaken as part of the Berghahn Books Online platform. Many Berghahn titles have been reviewed onChoice.[3]
Berghahn Journals currently publishes over 40 journals in those social science and humanities fields that complement its books list. This includes an annual series,Advances in Research, launched in 2013. Its journals have been available online since 2001.[4] Berghahn Journals was awarded theAAP PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities two years in a row: in 2009 forGirlhood Studies and in 2008 forProjections.[5]Girlhood Studies was also the recipient of the Highly Commended Certificate for the 2010ALPSP Best New Journal Award.[6]
As of 2019,[update] Berghahn Books joinedAnnual Reviews in releasing part of its journal content under theSubscribe to Open (S2O) initiative. In 2019 Berghahn offered 13 titles inanthropology as possible S2O candidates, all of which were released asopen content in 2020.[7][8] As of June 3, 2021, Berghahn Journals announced thatSocial Anthropology (Anthropologie Sociale), the journal of theEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) would become part of their open-access set of anthropology journals, starting with Volume 30 in 2022. EASA members "voted overwhelmingly" to leave their current publishers, Wiley, and "to take our journal Open Access in a way that is sustainable and equitable."[9]
Founded in 1994, its program, which includes close to 40 journals and over 125 new titles a year, spans Anthropology, Migration & Refugee Studies, Geography, History, and Film Studies.
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