The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced that Georgetown University Press Director Richard Brown assumed leadership of the AAUP on June 19, 2010. Brown will serve a one-year term. He succeeds Kathleen Keane, director of Johns Hopkins University Press, who remains on the association's Board of Directors.
Established in 1937, AAUP promotes the work and influence of university presses, provides cooperative marketing opportunities, and helps its more than 130 member presses fulfill their common commitments to scholarship, the academy, and society. The president of AAUP serves as a spokesperson for and an advocate of university presses and works with the executive director and board of directors to set the direction and immediate goals of the organisation.
Brown comes to the association's presidency with an already significant history of service to AAUP, having chaired the AAUP Annual Meeting Program Committee in 2006, and the Task Force on Committees in 2009. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2007, serving last year as President-Elect.
