University of Alabama Press

University of Alabama Press
Parent companyUniversity of Alabama
Founded1945; 79 years ago (1945)
FounderJames Benjamin McMillan
Country of origin United States
Headquarters locationTuscaloosa, Alabama
DistributionChicago Distribution Center (USA)[1]

University of British Columbia Press (Canada)[2]

RTM Asia-Pacific Book Marketing[3]

Eurospan Group (EMEA)[4]
Publication typesBooks, Journals
No. of employees18[5]
Official websiteUAPress.ua.edu[6]

The University of Alabama Press is a university press founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of the University of Alabama. An editorial 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, including anthropology and archeology, biography and memoir, the Civil Rights movement, fiction, food and agriculture, gender and sexuality studies, the history of medicine, Judaism and Holocaust studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, language and linguistics, 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 the Birmingham Museum of Art and Samford University, and The College of Agriculture, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill[8] at Auburn University. It serves as the publisher of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) imprint for experimental fiction.

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  2. ^ "Publishers Represented". UBCPress.ca. University of British Columbia Press. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  3. ^ "Resources for Bookstores". uapress.ua.edu. University of Alabama. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  4. ^ "University Presses". Eurospan.co.uk. Eurospan Group. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Contact Us". UAPress.ua.edu. University of Alabama. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  6. ^ "University of Alabama Press". UAPress.ua.edu. University of Alabama. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  7. ^ "AUPresses Subject Area Grid". aupresses.org/. The Association of University Presses. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Pebble Hill". Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. Auburn University. Retrieved 2023-11-29.