The Johns Hopkins University Press has announced the appointment of Gregory M. Britton, who has led the publishing programme at the Getty Museum and related institutions since 2008, as editorial director.
Effective May 16, Britton will become a senior member of the Press's Executive Committee. He will assume leadership of the Books Division's editorial department of ten full-time editors and assistants responsible for acquiring and publishing approximately 200 new titles annually.
Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, Britton directed the Getty Publications programme of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the largest museum publishing program in North America, which includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute. During his tenure, he expanded Getty's publishing partnerships with European museums, launched the Getty Research Journal, and created an ambitious digital initiatives plan.
Before that he was director of the Minnesota Historical Society Press, where he oversaw a significant expansion of the publishing programme and a resulting increase in sales and visibility.
Established in 1878, the Johns Hopkins University Press claims to be America's oldest university press and one of the world's largest, publishing 70 scholarly journals and nearly 200 new books each year.
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