Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of the Columbia University Press, recently assumed the presidency of the Association of University Presses. Crewe was preceded by Nicole Mitchell, University of Washington Press. Treasurer Robbie Dircks, University of North Carolina Press, also took office, as Nadine Buckland, University of the West Indies Press, wrapped up her 2017-2018 term.
New board members also began three-year terms, including: Anthony Cond, Director of Liverpool University Press and the Association's first board representative from a UK/EU-based member; and Fredric Nachbaur, Director, Fordham University Press. Kathryn Conrad, Director, University of Arizona Press, was voted in as President-Elect, and Jean Kim, Stanford University Press, took office as Treasurer-Elect.
Crewe began as an editorial assistant at Columbia University Press while completing an MFA at the university, going on to work as a manuscript editor. In order to gain acquisitions experience, Crewe took a role at Charles Scribners' Sons and then Macmillan before returning to Columbia University Press as an acquisitions editor in 1986. She served the Press in increasingly senior roles, becoming Editorial Director in 1999, being appointed President and Director in 2014, and now named Associate Provost and Director. As a publisher, she has received many accolades, and has shepherded numerous award-winning scholarly books to publication. Most recently, she was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, and has been named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.
Crewe served on the Association's Board of Directors from 2001 to 2003.
As President, Crewe announced several new and continuing initiatives for the 2018-2019 term: establishing a Statistics Review Task Force; and a Gender, Equity, and Cultures of Respect Task Force; and announced the transition of the current Diversity & Inclusion Task Force, established by President Mitchell, into a formal committee of the Association.
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