| Parent company | University of Alabama |
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| Founded | 1945; 80 years ago (1945) |
| Founder | James Benjamin McMillan |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Headquarters location | Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Distribution | Chicago Distribution Center (USA)[1] University of British Columbia Press (Canada)[2] |
| Publication types | Books, Journals |
| No. of employees | 18[5] |
| Official website | UAPress.ua.edu[6] |
TheUniversity of Alabama Press is auniversity press founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of theUniversity of Alabama. Aneditorial board composed of representatives from all doctoral degree granting public universities within Alabama oversees the publishing program. Projects are selected that support, extend, and preserve academic research. The Press also publishes books that foster an understanding of the history and culture of this state and region. The Press strives to publish works in a wide variety of formats such as print, electronic, and on-demand technologies to ensure that the works are widely available.
The University of Alabama Press publishes in a variety of subject areas, includinganthropology andarcheology, biography and memoir, theCivil Rights movement, fiction, food andagriculture, gender and sexuality studies, the history of medicine,Judaism andHolocaust studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies,language andlinguistics, law and legal studies,literary criticism, military studies and military history, Native American studies, nature, religion,rhetoric, and sports.[7]
As the only academic publisher for the state of Alabama, The University of Alabama Press has in the past undertaken publishing partnerships with such institutions as theBirmingham Museum of Art andSamford University, and The College of Agriculture, theJule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill[8] atAuburn University. It serves as the publisher of theFiction Collective Two (FC2) imprint for experimental fiction.
The University of Alabama Press was founded in the fall of 1945 with James Benjamin McMillan as founding director.[10][11] The Press's first work wasRoscoe C. Martin'sNew Horizons in Public Administration, which appeared in February 1946. In 1964, the Press joined the organization now known as theAssociation of University Presses.
In January, 2023, the University of Alabama Press joined the University of Alabama Libraries.[12]
It was awarded the General Basil W. Duke Award from theMilitary Order of the Stars and Bars for its re-publication ofMarcus B. Toney's Civil War memoir,The Privations of a Private, in 2006.[13]
The University of Alabama Press publishesTheatre History Studies, the journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference.[14] It also publishesTheatre Symposium, an annual scholarly publication featuring papers presented at the annual two-day conference of the Southeastern Theatre Conference.[15]
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