The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced that Louisiana State University Press Director MaryKatherine Callaway assumed leadership of the AAUP for the 2011-2012 term, at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Callaway succeeds Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press, who will remain on the AAUP Board of Directors.
Callaway began her university press career in the marketing department at the University of Georgia Press, where she worked for a year before crossing the Atlantic to open the UK marketing office for Johns Hopkins University Press. Upon her return to the States, Callaway continued at Johns Hopkins as international sales and subrights manager and then became marketing director. In 2003, after 14 years with Johns Hopkins, Callaway left to direct Louisiana State University Press, where, over the last eight years, the press has won its fourth Pulitzer Prize, published three National Book Award finalists, and received many other prizes. As director at LSU Press, Callaway served a full term as a board member before returning in 2010 as president-elect.
Formally 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.
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