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| Parent company | Indiana University |
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| Founded | 1950 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Bloomington, Indiana |
| Distribution | Hopkins Fulfillment Services (North America) Combined Academic Publishers Ltd (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand)[1] |
| Publication types | Books,academic journals |
| Imprints | Quarry Books, Red Lightning Books |
| Official website | iupress |
Indiana University Press, also known asIU Press, is anacademic publisher founded in 1950 atIndiana University that specializes in thehumanities andsocial sciences. Its headquarters are located inBloomington, Indiana. IU Press publishes approximately 100 newbooks annually, in addition to 38academic journals, and maintains a current catalog comprising some 2,000 titles.[2]
Indiana University Press primarily publishes in the following areas:African,African American,Asian,cultural,Jewish,Holocaust,Middle Eastern studies,Russian andEastern European, andwomen's andgender studies;anthropology,film studies,folklore,history,bioethics,music,paleontology,philanthropy,philosophy, andreligion. IU Press undertakes extensive regional publishing under its Quarry Books imprint.
IU Press began in 1950 as part of Indiana University's post-war growth under PresidentHerman B Wells. Bernard Perry, son of Harvard philosophy professorRalph Barton Perry, served as the first director. IU Press's first book was a translation of Edouard de Montulé'sTravels in America, 1816–1817, published in March 1951. A total of six books were published the first year.[3]
In 1952, IU Press earned full membership with theAssociation of American University Presses (now known as the "Association of University Presses"). During its first decade in operation, IU Press published more than 200 books. That same decade, in 1955, it publishedRolfe Humphries's translation of theMetamorphoses of Ovid, IU Press's all-time bestseller, having sold more than 500,000 copies to date.[3]
Bernard Perry retired as director in 1976 and was replaced by John Gallman who focused on the academic strengths of Indiana University. The IU Press Journals Division, launched in 1987 with three journals, now carries 38 in its 2023 portfolio. By the end of John Gallman's tenure as director in 2000, IU Press published 150 books annually and in 2022, the press maintains an annual output of approximately 100–120 scholarly books per year.
In 2004 IU Press launchedQuarry Books, an imprint dedicated to regional topics. It launchedRed Lighting Books, another imprint, that focuses on food and drink, lifestyle, travel, sports, the Midwest, and true crime.
In 1965, IU Press received the Centennial Medal, the highest prize of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, for its role in preserving Civil War history. IU Press's 1967 translation of volume 1 of Kierkegaard'sJournals and Papers won aNational Book Award. It was followed by a second National Book Award in 1970 for a translation of Bertolt Brecht'sSaint Joan of the Stockyards.[3] In 2009 Indiana University Press publicationTheUnited States Holocaust Memorial MuseumEncyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume I was selected as the winner of the 2009National Jewish Book Award in theHolocaust category.[4]
In a ranking of scholarly publishers in political science, IUP ranked 28th among all scholarly publishers by respondent preferences for publishers whose books they read or rely upon for the best research in political science.[5]
