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'''Stanford University Press''' ('''SUP''') is the [[publishing house]] of [[Stanford University]]. It is one of the oldest [[university press|academic presses]] in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It
[[David Starr Jordan]], the first president of Stanford University, posited four propositions to [[Leland Stanford|Leland]] and [[Jane Stanford]] when accepting the post, the last of which stipulated,
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In 1925, SUP hired William Hawley Davis, Professor of English, to be the inaugural general editor at the press. In the following year, SUP issued its first catalog, listing seventy-five published books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/about/|title=About the Press
The first press director, Donald P. Bean, was appointed in 1945. By the 1950s, the printing plant ranked seventh nationally among university presses with respect to title output. The head book designer in the late 1950s and 1960s was printer and typographer [[Jack Stauffacher]], later an [[American Institute of Graphic Arts|AIGA]] medalist.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aiga.org/medalist-jackstauffacher|title=2004 AIGA Medalist: Jack Stauffacher|website=AIGA {{!}} the professional association for design|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref>▼
▲In 1925, SUP hired William Hawley Davis, Professor of English, to be the inaugural general editor at the press. In the following year, SUP issued its first catalog, listing seventy-five published books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/about/|title=About the Press|last=Webmaster|website=www.sup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/09/press-celebrates-125th-anniversary/|title=Stanford University Press celebrates 125th anniversary|last=University|first=Stanford|date=2017-11-09|website=Stanford News|language=en|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref> University President [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]] established a Special Committee in 1927 comprising the editor, the press manager, the sales manager, and the comptroller in service of the press, whose "principal object is to serve in the publication of University publications of all sorts and to promote human welfare generally.”<ref name=":0" />
In 1999, the press became a division of the [[Stanford University Libraries]]. It moved from its previous location adjacent to the Stanford campus to its current location, in Redwood City, in
==== 1933 Murder Case ====▼
In 1933, David Lamson, a sales manager at SUP, was accused of murdering his wife, Allene, at their home on the Stanford campus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/was-it-murder|title=Was It Murder?|last=magazine|first=STANFORD|website=stanfordmag.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> [[Janet Lewis]], wife of Stanford poet [[Yvor Winters]], campaigning for Lamson's acquittal, wrote a pamphlet emphasizing the dangers of using circumstantial evidence. Lamson was ultimately released after being tried four times.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/the-ordeal-of-david-lamson/|title=The Ordeal of David Lamson|date=16 December 2012|publisher=}}</ref>▼
Stanford Business Books, an imprint for professional titles in business, launched in 2000, with two publications about [[Silicon Valley]]. The press launched the Briefs imprint in 2012, featuring short-form publications across its entire list.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/books/imprints/?imprint=Stanford%20Briefs|title=Stanford Briefs Thumbnails
▲[[File:The Press Gang.jpg|thumb|862x862px|A 1929 photo of the Stanford University Press staff.|alt=]]
▲The first press director, Donald P. Bean, was appointed in 1945. By the 1950s, the printing plant ranked seventh nationally among university presses with respect to title output. The head book designer in the late 1950s and 1960s was printer and typographer [[Jack Stauffacher]], later an [[American Institute of Graphic Arts|AIGA]] medalist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiga.org/medalist-jackstauffacher|title=2004 AIGA Medalist: Jack Stauffacher|website=AIGA {{!}} the professional association for design|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref>
In April 2019, the provost of Stanford University
▲In 1999, the press became a division of the [[Stanford University Libraries]]. It moved from its previous location adjacent to the Stanford campus to its current location, in Redwood City, in 2012-13.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.stanford.edu/news/2014/01/redwood-city-moves-complete|title=Redwood City moves complete|publisher=}}</ref>
== Imprints ==
▲Stanford Business Books, an imprint for professional titles in business, launched in 2000, with two publications about [[Silicon Valley]]. The press launched the Briefs imprint in 2012, featuring short-form publications across its entire list.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/books/imprints/?imprint=Stanford%20Briefs|title=Stanford Briefs Thumbnails|last=Press|first=Stanford University|website=www.sup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2015/02/on-the-merits-of-brevity.html|title=On the Merits of Brevity|website=Stanford University Press Blog|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SUP debuted a publishing program for [[Digital scholarship|born-digital interactive scholarly works]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2015/01/taking-digital-scholarship-to-the-presses.html|title=Taking Digital Scholarship to the Presses|website=Stanford University Press Blog|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/digital/|title=Stanford Digital Projects|last=Webmaster|website=www.sup.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref> That same year, it launched its trade imprint, Redwood Press, with a novel by [[Bahiyyih Nakhjavani|Bahiyyah Nakhjavani]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=39|title=Stanford University Press Launches Trade Imprint|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref>
=== Redwood Press ===
▲In April 2019, the provost of Stanford University announced announced plans to cease providing funds for the press, drawing widespread criticism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Proposed-Cut-of-Stanford-U/246200 |title=Proposed Cut of Stanford U. Press's Subsidy Sparks Outrage |last=Kafka |first=Alexander C. |date=April 26, 2019 |website=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |access-date=April 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/29/stanford-moves-stop-providing-funds-its-university-press |title=Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press |last=Jaschik |first=Scott |date=April 29, 2019 |website=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |access-date=April 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/04/29/stanford-community-outraged-at-su-press-defunding-over-1000-sign-petitions/|title=Stanford community outraged at SU Press defunding, over 1,000 sign petitions|last=Miller|first=Elise|date=2019-04-29|website=The Stanford Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref> Following protests from Stanford faculty and students, as well as the wider academic and publishing community,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aupresses.org/news-a-publications/news/1770-association-stands-in-support-of-stanford-university-press|title=Association Stands in Support of Stanford University Press|website=www.aupresses.org|access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> a one-time subsidy was reinstated, with additional options for future fundraising on the press's part to be discussed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Facing-Blowback-Stanford/246211|title=Facing Blowback, Stanford Partly Reverses Course and Pledges Press Subsidy for One More Year|last=Kafka|first=Alexander C.|date=2019-04-30|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2019-05-07|language=en-US|issn=0009-5982}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/05/01/provost-compromise-a-step-in-the-right-direction-on-su-press-defunding-but-not-enough-say-faculty/|title=Provost compromise a ‘step in the right direction’ on SU Press defunding, but not enough, say faculty|last=Miller|first=Elise|date=2019-05-01|website=The Stanford Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/01/stanford-backs-down-year-ending-support-university-press|title=Stanford backs down -- for a year -- on ending support for university press|website=www.insidehighered.com|language=en|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/05/02/op-ed-graduate-students-on-sups-future/|title=Op-Ed: Graduate students on SUP's future|last=Ed|first=Op|date=2019-05-02|website=The Stanford Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-06}}</ref>
Redwood Press publishes books written for a trade audience, spanning a variety of topics, by both academics and non-academic writers.
=== Stanford Briefs ===
Stanford Briefs are essay-length works published across SUP's various disciplines.
=== Stanford Business Books ===
The Stanford Business Books imprint is home to academic trade books, professional titles, texts for course use, and monographs that explore the social science side of business.
== Notable Series ==▼
== Digital publishing ==
SUP's digital projects initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, advances a formal channel for peer review and publication of born-digital scholarly works in the fields of digital humanities and computational social sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sup.org/digital/|title=Stanford Digital Projects|website=www.sup.org|access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref>
* Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics, founded by [[Werner Hamacher]]▼
== Notable
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Asian%20America Asian America]
*''The Tariff Controversy in the United States, 1789-1833'', by Orrin Leslie Elliott▼
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Cold%20War%20International%20History%20Project Cold War International History Project]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Complete%20Works%20of%20Friedrich%20Nietzsche The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Cultural%20Lives%20of%20Law Cultural Lives of the Law]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Cultural%20Memory%20in%20the%20Present Cultural Memory in the Present]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Innovation%20and%20Technology%20in%20the%20World%20Economy Innovation and Technology in the World Economy]
▲*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Meridian:%20Crossing%20Aesthetics Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics], founded by [[Werner Hamacher]]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Post*45 Post*45]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=South%20Asia%20in%20Motion South Asia in Motion]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Square%20One:%20First-Order%20Questions%20in%20the%20Humanities Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Stanford%20Studies%20in%20Comparative%20Race%20and%20Ethnicity Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Stanford%20Studies%20in%20Human%20Rights Stanford Studies in Human Rights]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Stanford%20Studies%20in%20Jewish%20History%20and%20Culture Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Stanford%20Studies%20in%20Middle%20Eastern%20and%20Islamic%20Societies%20and%20Cultures Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Studies%20in%20Asian%20Security Studies in Asian Security]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Studies%20in%20Social%20Inequality Studies in Social Inequality]
*[https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=Studies%20of%20the%20Walter%20H.%20Shorenstein%20Asia-Pacific%20Research%20Center Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center]
**The first book published in the Leland Stanford Junior University Monographs series
*''The Story of the Innumerable Company'', by David Starr Jordan
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*''[[Essays (Montaigne)|The Complete Essays of Montaigne]]'', translated by Donald M. Frame
*''Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision'', by [[Roberta Wohlstetter]] (1962)
*''[[Origins of the Chinese Revolution,
*''The Many-Splendored Fishes of Hawaii'', by Gar Goodson
*''The Sexual Contract'', by [[Carole Pateman]] (1988)
*''The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers'', 5 vols., edited by Tim Hunt (
**Stanford University Press would also publish ''The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers'', 3 vols., edited by James Karman (
*''[[Epic of Gilgamesh|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', translated with an introduction and notes by Maureen Gallery Kovacs (1989)
*''Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth Century France'', by [[Natalie Zemon Davis]] (1990)
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**The inaugural title in the Stanford Business Books imprint
*[[Dialectic of Enlightenment|''Dialectic of Enlightenment'', by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno]] (2002)
*''[[Zohar|The Zohar]]''
*''The Physics of Business Growth'', edited by Edward Hess and Jeanne Liedtka (2012)
**The inaugural title in the Stanford Briefs imprint
*''[[Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia]]'', by [[Dariusz Jemielniak]] (2014)
*''The Woman Who Read Too Much'', by Bahiyyah Nakhjavani (2015)
**The inaugural title in the Redwood Press imprint
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*''Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court'', by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (2016)
*''The Omnibus'' Homo Sacer, by Giorgio Agamben (2017)
*''[[Enemies and Friends]] 1967''
== Major
Major award won by the press and its publications are as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.sup.org/books/awards/ |title = Stanford University Press Awards |website = www.sup.org |language = en-US |access-date = 2019-05-15 }}</ref>
*[[Bancroft Prize]] (1962): ''Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision''
*Bancroft Prize (1993): ''A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War''
*René Welleck Prize,
*Bryce Wood Book Award, [[Latin American Studies Association]] (2000); Albert J. Beveridge Award, [[American Historical Association]] (1999): ''The Life and Times of Pancho Villa''
*Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, [[Modern Language Association]] (2003): ''The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy''
*Gold Medal, [[California Book Awards]], Commonwealth Club of California (2009): ''Asian American Art: A History,
*[[Nautilus Book Award]] (2010): ''Companies on a Mission''
*National Jewish Book Award, [[Jewish Book Council]] (2010): ''From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking''
*[[PROSE Awards|Prose Award]] for Excellence in Social Sciences (2017): ''Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court''▼
*National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies, Jewish Book Council (2010): ''Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century'', Volume 1
*Yonatan Shapiro Book Prize, Association of Israel Studies (2011); National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council (2011): ''Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine''
*National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council (2014): ''Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700–1950''
*National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies, Jewish Book Council (2014); Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize, Modern Language Association (2015): ''A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987''
▲*[[PROSE Awards|Prose Award]] for Excellence in Social Sciences (2017); [[American Sociological Association]] Distinguished Scholarly Book Award: ''Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court''
*[[Independent Publisher Book Awards|Independent Publisher Book Award]] (2018): ''Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo''
*Hayek Book Prize, [[Manhattan Institute for Policy Research]] (2018): ''The High Cost of Good Intentions:'' ''A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs''
*Palestine Book Award, [[Middle East Monitor]] (2018): ''Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World''
*Gold in Success/Motivation/Coaching, Axiom Business Book Award (2019): ''Life Is a Startup: What What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change''
*Gold in Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues), Independent Publisher Book Award: ''Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura''
*Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, [[Association for Asian Studies]] (2019): ''A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule''
▲In 1933, David Lamson, a sales manager at SUP, was accused of murdering his wife, Allene, at their home on the Stanford campus.<ref>{{
==See also==
{{Portal|Literature|California}}
* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]
==References==
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