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Director elected president of AAUP

Kathleen Keane, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press, began a one-year term as president of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) on June 20 at the group's annual meeting in Philadelphia. She served for the past year as president-elect and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2007. "I am honored to accept this position," noted Keane, "and I am proud of the AAUP's on-going efforts to advance scholarly publishing and serve the very accomplished and collegial community of member presses."

Formally established in 1937, AAUP promotes the work and influence of university presses, provides cooperative marketing opportunities, and helps its 134 member presses fulfill their common commitments to scholarship, the academy, and society. The president of AAUP serves a one-year term and acts as a spokesperson for and an advocate of university presses, working with the executive director and board of directors to set the direction and immediate goals of the organization.

Keane joined the Johns Hopkins University Press in September 2002 as director of finance and operations. In 2004, she became director of America's oldest university press and its staff of 140. In her role as director, she oversees a large and diverse publishing operation: a book division that publishes 200 new titles annually; a journal division that manages publication of 70 scholarly periodicals; Project MUSE, an online collection of 450 scholarly journals; and a fulfillment and customer services operation that serves 16 client presses.

Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Keane served as executive vice president of operations and chief publishing officer at Harcourt Health Sciences in Philadelphia, a division of Harcourt Inc., where she was responsible for all its health sciences books, including major textbooks and reference books in medicine, nursing and allied health; journals; and database publishing. From 1980 to 1991, she was business manager and vice president for finance at J.B Lippincott Co., a medical book and journal publisher that was a subsidiary of Harper & Row Publishers. Keane earned her bachelor's degree in English from Connecticut College and a master's degree in English from Catholic University of America. She received her M.B.A. from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Read an article about the Press and Kathleen Keane in the Johns Hopkins Gazette (June 22, Vol. 38, No. 38) at gazette.jhu.edu. For more information about the AAUP and its member presses, and for a transcript of Kathleen Keane's remarks at the AAUP annual meeting, visit aaupnet.org.

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Hopkins book honored at 2009 NY Book Show

We take book design seriously here at Hopkins. And we think it shows. So, apparently, does the New York Bookbinders' Guild.

At the organization's 2009 Book Show The Colts' Baltimore, by Michael Olesker, took third place for design among general trade nonfiction books.

Olesker's book is a paean to a bygone era when the Johnny Unitas-led Baltimore Colts ruled the city, school integration was in its infancy, and rock-and-roll was working its way onto the radio. The book's design, from its classy blue-tinted cover to its understated chapter openers to its scattered black-and-white photographs and reprints of advertisements reflects that era and the book's personality faithfully and artfully.

"It's delightful when our behind-the-scenes colleagues in publishing are honored," said JHUP editor-in-chief Trevor Lipscombe on learning of the honor. "Our design and production team works under great pressures to make sure that Hopkins Press can bring out around 200 of the finest books that scholarly publishing has to offer each year. We're proud of our books' covers and the page designs. The wise and imaginative selection of type fonts and careful presentation of illustrations are vitally important to the reading experience."

The New York Book Show receives hundreds of entries from trade, academic, and specialty publishers each year. Last year, JHUP took a second place prize among scholarly/reference works for Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City. For more information on this year's show, see the New York Book Show.

To order your copy of The Colts' Baltimore or Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City at a special 25% discount, simply add the book to your cart, proceed to the checkout, and enter NAF in the promo code box.

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Hopkins author focus of USA Today Feature

Paul A. Lombardo's three-decade-long quest to uncover the roots of the Buck v. Bell Supreme Court ruling that legitimized forcible sterilization in the United States is featured in the June 23rd edition of USA Today. The article explains how Professor Lombardo learned of the case, why he became so compelled with the issue, and why he ultimately wrote Three Generations, No Imbeciles, his masterful account of the horrifically fraudulent events that led to the infamous ruling in the case and prompted Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr. to write in his opinion "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

To order your copy of Three Generations, No Imbeciles at a special 25% discount, simply add the book to your cart, proceed to the checkout, and enter NAF in the promo code box.

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Early Christians believed disease came through natural processes, not demons

Put away any notions that early Christians healed their sick through exorcisms and other out of this world potions and practices, says Gary B. Ferngren, who teaches ancient history at Oregon State University, and is the author of Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Ferngren focused on the first five centuries of Christianity by studying the status of doctors and "the kinds of healing they offered, what their patients sought in medical care, the environmental background of medicine. I read the New Testament, looking for biblical evidence for health and healing, and then I went to the church fathers, Christian intellectuals who began to defend Christianity in the second century." Read more about his surprising findings in an interview he gave recently to the Portland Oregonian.

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Summer reading from JHUP

Summer isn't just for tanning. Enlighten your mind with some summer reading from the Johns Hopkins University Press!

Receive a 20% discount on all of your summer reading! Simply enter NAF in the promo code box at checkout.

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2009: International Year of Astronomy

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 2009 the International year of Astronomy. The theme for this celebratory year is "The Universe, Yours to Discover". Explore these new and recently published JHUP astronomy titles:

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MUSE E-Mail Announcement

Can be found at Project MUSE

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Journals Press Releases

Can be found at Press Releases

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