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| Parent company | University of Pennsylvania |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | March 26, 1890; 135 years ago (March 26, 1890) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | 3905 Spruce St.,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Distribution | Hopkins Fulfillment Services (the Americas) Scholarly Book Services (Canada) Combined Academic Publishers (Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia)[1] |
| Publication types | Books, magazine, journals |
| Official website | www |
TheUniversity of Pennsylvania Press (also known asPenn Press) is auniversity press affiliated with theUniversity of Pennsylvania, a private,Ivy League university inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.
The press was originally incorporated with by thePennsylvania state government on March 26, 1890,[3] and the imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press first appeared on publications in the 1890s, among the earliest such imprints in America. One of the press's first book publications, published in 1899, wasThe Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, written by black reformer, scholar, and social criticW. E. B. Du Bois.
University of Pennsylvania Press has an active backlist of roughly 2,000 titles and an annual output of upward of 120 new books in a focused editorial program. It focuses heavily on publishing works related to American history and culture, ancient, medieval, and Renaissance studies, anthropology, landscape architecture, studio arts, human rights, Jewish studies, and political science. The press also publishes 27peer-reviewedacademic journals,[4] mostly in the humanities, and the magazineDissent.
As of July 2023,[update] Wharton School Press is an imprint of University of Pennsylvania Press.[5][6][7][8]
The University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. is a nonprofit Pennsylvania corporation wholly owned by the University of Pennsylvania, which maintains nonprofit tax status underSection 501(c)(3) of theUnited States Code.
University of Pennsylvania Press is headquartered at 3905 Spruce Street inPhiladelphia. The building housing the press is the former Potts House built by theWilson Brothers & Company architecture firm in 1876.[9] The house previously served as both the headquarters of International House Philadelphia andWXPN.
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