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University Press of Kentucky
	University Press of Kentucky
Founded	1969
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Lexington, Kentucky
Key people	Leila Salisbury, Director
Official website	www.kentuckypress.com

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The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949 the press was established as a separate academic agency under the university president, and the following year Bruce F. Denbo, then of Louisiana State University Press was appointed as the first full-time professional director. Denbo served as director of UPK until his retirement in 1978, building a small but distinguished list of scholarly books with emphasis on American history and literary criticism.

Since its reorganization, the Press has represented a consortium that now includes all of Kentucky's state universities, five of its private colleges, and two historical societies. UPK joined the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) in 1947.

The press is supported by the Thomas D. Clark Foundation, Inc., a private nonprofit foundation established in 1994 for the sole purpose of providing financial support for The University Press of Kentucky. It is named in honor of Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's historian laureate and the founder of The University Press of Kentucky.

UPK serves

Each constituent institution is represented on a statewide editorial board, which determines editorial policy.

Offices

Offices for the Administrative, Editorial, Production, and Marketing departments are found at the University of Kentucky, which is responsible for the overhead cost of the publishing operation. In 2012, UPK was moved under the aegis of the University of Kentucky Libraries, headed by Dean Terry Birdwhistell.

Bruce F. Denbo, UPK's first director, was succeeded by Kenneth H. Cherry, who came to UPK from the University of Tennessee Press. During his tenure, the size of the press more than quadrupled. Ken Cherry retired in the Fall of 2001, and his successor, Stephen Wrinn, formerly of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, began as new director in April 2002.^[1] In August 2016, Leila Salisbury took over as director of the Press.^[2] Salisbury, who began her career at UPK, had served as director of the University Press of Mississippi since 2008.

UPK's editorial program focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Its commitment to film and military studies has earned it a national reputation in recent years. Since the formation of the consortium, the press has broadened its appeal to readers in Kentucky and Appalachia with publications of special regional interest. In the 1970s it produced the Kentucky Nature Series and the forty-seven-volume Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf.

The press publishes classic novels by Kentucky authors including Harriet Arnow, Janice Holt Giles, John Fox, Jr., James Still, and Jesse Stuart.

References

^ "Notre Dame Newswire". Retrieved August 18, 2016.
^ "Leila Salisbury to Lead University Press of Kentucky | UKNow". uknow.uky.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-18.

External links

Official site

[1] "Notre Dame Newswire". Retrieved August 18, 2016.

[2] "Leila Salisbury to Lead University Press of Kentucky | UKNow". uknow.uky.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-18.

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-'''The University Press of Kentucky''' (UPK) The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of [[Kentucky]], and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.
+'''The University Press of Kentucky''' (UPK) is the scholarly [[publisher]] for the Commonwealth of [[Kentucky]], and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The [[university]] had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949 the press was established as a separate academic agency under the university president, and the following year Bruce F. Denbo, then of [[Louisiana State University Press]] was appointed as the first full-time professional director. Denbo served as director of UPK until his retirement in 1978, building a small but distinguished list of scholarly books with emphasis on American history and literary criticism.
+Since its reorganization, the Press has represented a [[consortium]] that now includes all of Kentucky's state universities, five of its private colleges, and two historical societies. UPK joined the [[Association of American University Presses]] ([http://www.aaupnet.org/index.php AAUP]) in 1947.
-==Mission statement==
-''The University Press of Kentucky has a dual mission—the publication of academic books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields and the publication of significant books about the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, and [[Appalachia]]. The Press is the statewide nonprofit scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, operating under the [[University of Kentucky Libraries]] and serving all Kentucky state-sponsored institutions of higher learning as well as five private colleges and Kentucky's two major historical societies.''
+The press is supported by the [http://kentuckypress.com/pages/clark_foundation.htm Thomas D. Clark Foundation, Inc.], a private nonprofit foundation established in 1994 for the sole purpose of providing financial support for The University Press of Kentucky. It is named in honor of [[Thomas D. Clark]], Kentucky's historian laureate and the founder of The University Press of Kentucky.
-==History and organization==
-The [[University of Kentucky]] had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949 the Press was established as a separate academic agency under the university president, and the following year Bruce F. Denbo, then of [[Louisiana State University Press]], was appointed as the first full-time professional director. Denbo served as director of UPK until his retirement in 1978, building a small but distinguished list of scholarly books with emphasis on American history and literary criticism.
+==UPK serves==
-Offices for the administrative, editorial, production, and marketing departments are found at the University of Kentucky, which is responsible for the overhead cost of the publishing operation. Denbo was succeeded as director by Kenneth H. Cherry, who came to UPK from the [[University of Tennessee Press]]. During Cherry's tenure, the size of the press more than quadrupled. Upon Cherry's retirement in 2001, Stephen M. Wrinn, formerly of [[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers]], became director in 2002. In 2012, the Press began a reporting relationship to the UK Libraries and is proud to have made 1,128 of its titles available to the wider University of Kentucky community via the campus institutional repository, [http://uknowledge.uky.edu UKnowledge]. In 2016, Leila W. Salisbury, who had come to the Press full-time in 1994 and later served as director at the University Press of Mississippi, rejoined UPK as director.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article72407052.html|title=Lexington Herald-Leader|last=|first=|date=April 18, 2016|work=|access-date=October 27, 2016|via=Kentucky.com}}</ref>
-Since the 1969 reorganization, the Press has represented a consortium that now includes all of Kentucky's state universities, five of its private colleges, and two historical societies. Each constituent institution is represented on a statewide editorial board, which supervises the UPK imprint.
-==Consortium members==
 * [[Bellarmine University]]
 * [[Berea College]]
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 * [[Western Kentucky University]]
+Each constituent institution is represented on a statewide editorial board, which determines editorial policy.
-==Current operation and areas of focus==
-From its offices on the UK campus, the Press's full-time staff of 17 publishes 50-55 titles per year in print and electronic formats. The Press has 1865 titles in print with annual sales of approximately $1.85 million. UPK books are available through all major retail and wholesale channels, libraries, and online platforms, both domestic and international.
-UPK's editorial program focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Its publications in film and military studies have earned the Press a national reputation in these fields, with reviews in such media as the ''[[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', and ''[[NPR]]''. Notable awards for UPK titles include: thirteen [[Frederick Jackson Turner Award]]s (history); four [http://appalachianstudies.org/awards/ Weatherford Awards] (Appalachian studies); three [[Lillian Smith Book Award]]s (African American studies); and the [[Lannan Literary Awards|Lannan Literary Award]].
+==Offices==
-Since the formation of the consortium, the press has meaningfully served readers, students, and scholars in Kentucky and Appalachia with publications of special regional interest. In the 1970s UPK produced the Kentucky Nature Series and the forty-seven-volume [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=KYBB&skip=0&max=24 Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf]. The Press republished classic novels by Kentucky authors including [[Harriette Simpson Arnow|Harriet Simpson Arnow]], [[Janice Holt Giles]], [[John Fox Jr.|John Fox, Jr.]], [[James Still]], and [[Jesse Stuart]]. The 1992 ''[http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1849 Kentucky Encyclopedia]'' received funding from the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] and was one of the first state-focused encyclopedias. Later large-scale projects such as ''[http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1068 A New History of Kentucky]'' (1997), ''[http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1717 Atlas of Kentucky]'' (1998), ''[http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1903 Encyclopedia of Louisville]'' (2000), and ''[http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=3264 The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia]'' (2015) continued the Press's tradition of high-quality documentation and synthesis of the state and region's history. In 2015, the Press partnered with Centre College for the [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=COP&skip=0&max=5 University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series].
+Offices for the Administrative, Editorial, Production, and Marketing departments are found at the University of Kentucky, which is responsible for the overhead cost of the publishing operation. In 2012, UPK was moved under the aegis of the [https://libraries.uky.edu University of Kentucky Libraries], headed by Dean Terry Birdwhistell.
+Bruce F. Denbo, UPK's first director, was succeeded by Kenneth H. Cherry, who came to UPK from the [[University of Tennessee Press]]. During his tenure, the size of the press more than quadrupled. Ken Cherry retired in the Fall of 2001, and his successor, Stephen Wrinn, formerly of [[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers]], began as new director in April 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.nd.edu/news/59485-stephen-wrinn-to-lead-university-of-notre-dame-press/|title=Notre Dame Newswire|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=August 18, 2016|via=}}</ref> In August 2016, Leila Salisbury took over as director of the Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uknow.uky.edu/content/leila-salisbury-lead-university-press-kentucky|title=Leila Salisbury to Lead University Press of Kentucky {{!}} UKNow|website=uknow.uky.edu|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref> Salisbury, who began her career at UPK, had served as director of the [[University Press of Mississippi]] since 2008.
+UPK's editorial program focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Its commitment to film and military studies has earned it a national reputation in recent years. Since the formation of the consortium, the press has broadened its appeal to readers in Kentucky and [[Appalachia]] with publications of special regional interest. In the 1970s it produced the Kentucky Nature Series and the forty-seven-volume Kentucky [[wikt:bicentennial|Bicentennial]] Bookshelf.
-==Memberships and partnerships==
-In 2007, the Press entered into a partnership with the [[Association of the United States Army]] (AUSA) to co-publish outstanding works in military history and to serve as the premiere exhibitor at the association's annual conference. The Press also regularly exhibits titles and works to cultivate authors at the annual meetings of the [[Appalachian Studies Association]], the [http://pcaaca.org Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association], the [[Southern Historical Association]], the [[Society for Military History]], the [[Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations]], and others. Current book series of note include: [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=ANMI&skip=0&max=5 Asia in the New Millennium]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=CRST&skip=0&max=5 Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=CULL&skip=0&max=5 Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism]; Horses in History; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=KYRE&skip=0&max=5 Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=NDSH&skip=0&max=5 New Directions in Southern History]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=APPS&skip=0&max=5 Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=SCCL&skip=0&max=5 Screen Classics]; [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=TPKH&skip=0&max=5 Topics in Kentucky History]; and the AUSA [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=AMWS&skip=0&max=5 American Warriors], [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=BACS&skip=0&max=5 Battles & Campaigns], and [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=FMSS&skip=0&max=5 Foreign Military Studies] series.
+The press publishes classic novels by Kentucky authors including [[Harriet Arnow]], [[Janice Holt Giles]], [[John Fox, Jr.]], [[James Still]], and [[Jesse Stuart]].
-UPK is a longstanding member of the national professional group the [[Association of American University Presses]] (AAUP). Over the years UPK staff have served in a variety of capacities on AAUP committees and working groups. The Press has also collaborated on books and events with statewide and community partners such as the [[Kentucky Humanities Council]] (this collaboration produced the outstanding [http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/list_series.php?seriescode=NBNR&skip=0&max=5 New Books for New Readers Series], titles designed to enhance adult literacy through Kentucky-based subjects); the [http://artscouncil.ky.gov Kentucky Arts Council]; [[Kentucky state parks|Kentucky State Parks]]; the [http://kdla.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives]; the [[Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources|Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife]]; the [[Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission]]; the [http://www.bluegrasstrust.org Bluegrass Trust]; and the [[Frazier History Museum]], among others.
 ==References==