Cornell University Press Update 2021
Our Mission Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practical knowledge, while commanding its own distinct editorial profile. The press, as part of a land-grant institution, is also dedicated to transforming research into publications that reach and benefit the wider public. Works published under its imprints reflect a commitment to excellence through rigorous evaluation, skillful editing, thoughtful design, strategic marketing, and global outreach.
2021: An Introduction Jane Bunker, Director Since 1869 Cornell University Press has published books of global importance. This year we published another 175 new books that exemplify the Cornell brand of quality and excellence. In this annual report our Senior Leadership Team presents their special contributions to these books, our readers, our university, and our organization. They introduce new initiatives, describe the many successes we have enjoyed this year, celebrate longtime treasured staff members who have recently retired, and remind us that everyone here at Cornell University Press is dedicated to our mission: to foster a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. All of our books this year were published while the entire staff worked from home due to the ongoing conditions related to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Our organization met the challenges of the pivot, we left our beloved Sage House, and we developed best substitutive practices involving layers of computer technology and a dedicated, creative, problem-solving staff. The remote workplace is simultaneously beneficial and challenging, for various complex reasons, and we will no doubt publish insightful books on this topic someday. The good news is that we are now moving back into Sage House following the best practices for rejoining our colleagues in a COVID-safe in-person workplace. We are concurrently exploring the newly emerging experiment of the hybrid office. Amid all of these challenges, we continue to make important and necessary books. As you read this please notice the images of our beautiful books. Great design is a hallmark of a Cornell book. I love books. There are days when I am weary from too many Zoom meetings and not enough success crossing things off my to-do list. But those feelings evaporate when I remember that I am lucky to make books for a living with a group of some of the smartest people on the planet. Our staff is passionate about their work and dedicated both to the mission and to one another’s success. We invest in partnering with authors to make great books and then endeavor to reach the broadest possible audience so that we can continue to change the world—one book at a time. Thank you for joining us in celebrating our books and our organization by reading this report.
The Imprints Works published under our imprints reflect a commitment to excellence through rigorous evaluation, skillful editing, thoughtful design, strategic marketing, and global outreach. Under the ILR Press imprint, we publish books in labor relations, class and workplace issues, and health care policy. Books in the life sciences, environmental studies, and natural history are published under our Comstock Publishing Associates imprint. In our Southeast Asia Program Publications imprint, we publish books on Southeast Asian history, culture, and society, as well as the journal Indonesia. The Cornell East Asia Series imprint, publishes on subjects concerning cultures of China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula, covering topics in history, culture and society, and translations of literary works. Three Hills, a trade imprint of Cornell University Press, publishes smart, informative, entertaining, and provocative books about New York State and the Northeast. From history to unusual hobbies, politics to pop culture, the environment to the economy, sports to tourist spots, Three Hills covers the Empire State, its people and heritage, Cornell University, and much more. Northern Illinois University Press is an imprint that focuses on Russian and Eurasian studies, Asian studies, and books of general interest about Chicago and Illinois. Eleven titles are currently available in the Cornell Publishing imprint, including Shaping a City from Mack Travis on Ithaca’s downtown transformation, Investing in Financial Research, Touchdown, and The Agenda Mover. Cornell Global Perspectives is an imprint of Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The works examine critical global challenges, often from an interdisciplinary perspective, and are intended for a nonspecialist audience. Cornell Selects provides a forum for advancing provocative ideas and fresh viewpoints through outstanding digital-only publications. Longer than an article and shorter than a book, titles published under this imprint explore a diverse range of topics in a clear and concise format—one designed to appeal to any reader.
Our Editorial Boards CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Derek Chang, History Durba Ghosh, History Adam Smith, Anthropology Jeremy Lee Wallace, Government Samantha Zacher, English
ILR PRESS Virginia Doellgast, ILR John Hausknecht, ILR Tae Youn Park, ILR
THREE HILLS Myra Armstead, Bard College Elizabeth Bradley, New York Observer Jeffrey Chusid, Cornell University Beth L. Hill, Fort Ticonderoga Association Christopher Jones, Regional Plan Association Devin Lander, New York State Historian Jane McNamara, New York Council on the Humanities Karen Morse, Historic Hudson Valley Sam Roberts, New York Times Erika Sanger, Museum Association of New York Robert Shibley, SUNY Buffalo Charity Vogel, Buffalo News Robert Weible, New York State Historian emeritus
SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS Thak Chaloemtiarana, Asian studies, retired Chiara Formichi, Asian studies Tamara Loos, History Andrew Willford, Anthropology
CORNELL EAST ASIA SERIES Andrea Bachner, EAP Director Nick Admussen, Asian Studies Daniel Boucher, Asian Studies Daniel McKee, Asian Studies & CU Library Suyoung Son, Asian Studies John Whitman, Linguistics
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Gerald Blazey, VP for Research and Innovation, NIU Andy Bruno, Liberal Arts and Sciences, NIU Sarah Evans, Visual and Performing Arts, NIU Xiaohui Sophie Li, Health and Human Sciences, NIU Paul Prabhaker, Business, NIU Patrick Roberts, Education, NIU Shane Sharp, Liberal Arts and Sciences, NIU Matthew Short, University Libraries, NIU Matt Timko, Law, NIU
COMSTOCK PUBLISHING ASSOCIATES Corrie Moreau, Entomology David Wolfe, Plant Science
A Year of Triumphs . . . and Challenges Mahinder Kingra Editorial Director From the perspective of my remote desk in acquisitions, fiscal year 2021 was a challenging year but also one that saw some exciting developments. Because of the lingering impact of the pandemic, travel restrictions, and limited access to libraries and archives, a number of authors were delayed in delivering their manuscripts. And the added burdens imposed by working from home meant that finding peer reviewers was more difficult than ever. Perhaps more impactful than any of these factors, however, was the departure of three acquiring editors: Roger Haydon, Fran Benson, and Emily Andrew. Roger and Fran were the two longest-serving editors at Cornell (with more than seventy-five years of service between them), while Emily, although only at Cornell for five years, had acquired and developed a number of award-winning and bestselling books and established several series. The Press will keenly feel their absence for several years. As part of our mission to publish translational scholarship intended to attract as broad a readership as possible, the acquisitions team also acquired and developed several successful and high-profile (trade) books for general readers during the year, across a wide range of subjects. Highlights from this endeavor include: • Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical, edited by Lisa A. Tucker • Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, by Jay Lockenour • Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, by Judith G. Coffin • Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History, by Daniel R. Garodnick • When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers, edited by Susan Fox Rogers • Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need, by Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman • Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry, by Michael G. Hillard
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New Series We launched two innovative series in the past year. Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices Edited by Anna Sims Bartel, Debra Ann Castillo, and Scott Peters (all Cornell University) This series illuminates critical emerging dynamics within publicly engaged scholarship. Universities and individual scholars across the disciplinary spectrum seek to understand how intellectual, scientific, artistic, and pedagogical work can effectively contribute to achieving greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in a participatory democratic culture. Books in this series invite attention to the expression of scholars’ full humanity, in and through their engaged teaching and research. They examine not just ideas, theories, histories, and philosophies but also scholars’ experiences and situational labor as civic and cultural agents with others beyond the academy. The Environments of East Asia Edited by Ann Sherif (Oberlin College) and Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna College) This series, which received a $240,000 grant from the Luce Foundation to make all of its books available as Open Access ebooks, aims to promote research with a combined focus on the environment and the societies of East Asia. Books in the series investigate the material and discursive processes and interconnected systems that shape relationships between the human and nonhuman: whether within national and imperial boundaries, among countries, or traversing the globe. In addressing the complex social, cultural, and natural processes and systems that inform environmental challenges, sustainability, and resilience in East Asia, the series draws from the best disciplinary and cross-disciplinary methods and analyses.
Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published work, for both the users and authors. The critical importance of easily accessible, carefully vetted, and peer-reviewed OA books in the humanities and humanistic social sciences became especially clear during the first year of the COVID-19 global public health crisis when higher education institutions moved into an exclusively online learning environment. Recognition of their role closely aligned with the motto of Cornell University, “Any person, any study,” while converging with the press’s significant presence in the OA space.
Open Access The press extended its OA offerings through collaborations with the Mellon Foundation–funded Sustainable History Monograph Pilot program (eight titles); the AAU/ARL/AUP–sponsored Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem program (ten titles); and other institutional support (six titles). In addition, the press received separate NEH grants to collaborate with CU Libraries to create a permanent archive of the press’s OA content and postpublication Open Access grants to make nine previously published titles available as OA ebooks. Funded by the NEH, the press’s “Open Access in a Closed World” project had five components, each one a vital aspect of OA publishing that we had identified but not had the resources to address. These components were to: 1. Convert all 203 ePub ebook files in its OA library to meet the accessibility standards of the eCommons platform. 2. Identify twenty additional titles for OA status in the fields of global public health and health care policy. 3. Develop a workflow document to ensure consistency across departments in the handling of OA content and timely dissemination of OA files to vendors and partners, including eCommons. 4. Work with CU Library’s eCommons team to upload 203 OA ebooks files to the eCommons platform, providing robust metadata to optimize searchability. 5. Develop marketing strategies to promote the press’s OA content. We remain strongly committed to open scholarship to make as much of our content as possible available to the broadest possible publics. This also enables expansion of the press’s global reach.
Distribution Clients Leuven University Press - Cornell University Press is the exclusive North American distributor for Leuven University Press. Established in 1971 by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven University Press currently has over a thousand books in print; in fields including art, music, religion, philosophy, history, medieval studies, anthropology, psychology, politics, and culture. Islandica - Volumes in the Islandica series were published by the Cornell University Library until 1932; between 1933 and 2003, the series was published by Cornell University Press. Since 2008, the series is once again being published by Cornell University Library and is distributed by Cornell University Press. Two publications are currently available: New Norse Studies and The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130–1265), both on studies of Old Norse–Icelandic literature. Labor and Employment Research Association - Books published by the Labor and Employment Relations Association address labor and workplace issues and are distributed by Cornell University Press under its ILR Press imprint. Some of its titles include No One Size Fits All and The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism.
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WE PUBLISH 175 NEW BOOKS EACH YEAR
We proudly publish New York History, the foremost scholarly journal on the state’s past since 1932
Cornell University Press books were translated into 19 languages in 2021
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Mediaeval Society by Sidney Painter is our bestselling book of all time More than 186,000 copies sold so far
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Twenty Million Words, Two Hundred Pictures Ange Romeo-Hall Director of Editorial, Design, and Production Greetings from the newly minted CUP Department of Editorial, Design, and Production, composed of press editors, production professionals, and designers who have been longtime CUP collaborators in book making but who are united for the first time as a single team as of July 2021. I am at their humble service in my new role as director of their dedicated work. During fiscal year 2021 we broke our own record for the number of manuscripts we transformed into polished, readable, and attractive scholarly and trade books. From the highest complexity science books to specialized scholarly monographs and a moving 9/11 novel, we flexed with each author and each other, giving manuscripts, illustrations, and jackets and covers individualized treatment. Over the last four years our output of books has continued to climb. The number of projects at some stage of editing and production currently exceeds two hundred books; that’s about eighty thousand manuscript pages or twenty million words! That’s two hundred original final cover designs (that each likely began as four to six options). But we are more than the sum of our data. The pandemic and sweeping calls for social justice challenged us to think more about inclusive editing and design, the accessibility of our ebooks, workplace culture, and how we treat each other. We began development of an inclusive editing guide for authors; added alternative text to our ebooks; revamped our illustration guidelines; and brought inclusivity to our cover design discussions. Our EDP staff worked collaboratively on the press’s Open Access Working Group, creating accessible OA ebooks. We served on the Mellon Diversity Fellowship hiring committee, fiction publishing exploratory group, and the voluntary shared reading group that first grew out of Cornell’s Community Read of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and then developed into a CUP antiracism reading group that meets every Friday at 9am. In this reading group many
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Marketing and Selling Our Books Martyn Beeny Marketing and Sales Director Fiscal year 2021 was, of course, truly unprecedented. As the year started, we were all in the midst of the first pandemic summer. And yet, at exactly that time, book sales jumped through the roof. In the previous three or four months, our sales had plummeted. Amazon declared books to be nonessential items and stopped ordering new stock. Independent bookstores remained shuttered because of lockdown. Wholesalers and distributors had no one to sell our books to. When July arrived, it seemed as though everyone wanted books. The fiscal year got off to a great start and continued throughout, resulting in one of the most successful years of sales in the press’s history. Our media coverage continued to exceed expectations. Events and movements in the larger global society drew attention to our authors and their work.
The new reliance on digital copies of books rather than physical editions sped up the flow of author content to the media. We took advantage and made sure our books and authors received the coverage they deserve. Our digital marketing was already a strong point of what we do prior to July 2021. As we moved deeper into the pandemic and people became more comfortable with digital interactions, Zoom meetings, and information secured solely through digital platforms, we sought to find ways to engage even more extensively through these mediums.
Email campaigns have seen record-setting attention from recipients. Our website has had more traffic—and more engaged traffic—than ever before. Our social media efforts continue to result in rapidly increasing followers and engagements. We embraced the Zoom revolution and moved our physical exhibit presence online. Our new virtual conference exhibit pages on our website pulled in a lot of visitors and we generated two-thirds of typical annual sales from conferences with none of the typical associated costs. As a team we have continued to push the boundaries of what marketing can look like for a university press. We believe in trying new things even if they don’t end up working out. Our weekly brainstorming gatherings moved to Zoom but haven’t lessened in their originality and creativity. We are about to unveil our Guest Lecturer program, something we worked on throughout the year. Spurred by the rapid move to remote learning and teaching we started building a robust platform on our website to showcase our authors who can help academics by presenting to their classes either remotely and now, in person, too. We continued to develop what a subject catalog looks like, the content it contains, and how it can be used to help readers find their next book. We now produce fifteen-plus catalogs each year, and they are filled with original content written by our authors. We introduced, for the first time, a seasonal opportunity for forthcoming authors to meet the marketing team and learn more about what we do and why. Our efforts in traditional book marketing, as well as the new initiatives highlighted here are examples of the unique and unusual ways in which the marketing team seeks to showcase our authors and our books, building our brand and highlighting the impact of the work we all do. As ever, the marketing team embraced our vision of changing the world one book at a time.
AWARDS Pamela Ballinger’s The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy is winner of the History, Society, and Politics Book Prize given by the American Association for Italian Studies Nimisha Barton’s Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945, is winner of the J. Russell Major Prize given by the American Historical Association Adelle Blackett’s Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law is winner of the Canadian Council on International Law Book Award Judith G. Coffin’s Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir is winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize given by the Society for French Historical Studies Cynthia J. Cranford’s Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances is winner of the Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award given by the American Sociological Association Adam J. Davis’s The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital is winner of the Ohio Academy of History Publication Award Erynn Masi de Casanova’s Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador is winner of the Ecuadorian Studies Section Book Award given by the Latin American Studies Association Brian Drohan’s Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire is winner of the Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. Award given by the Army Strategist Association Madeleine Fairbairn’s Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush is winner of the CAPE Outstanding Publication Award given by the American Association of Geographers Krista A. Goff’s, Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus is cowinner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History given by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
and winner of the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethinic Studies given by the Association for the Study of Nationalities Mayte Green-Mercado’s Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean is winner of the Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies Matthew Johnson’s Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality is a winner of the Michigan State History Award in the category of Books: University & Commercial Press given by the Historical Society of Michigan Theresa Keeley’s Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America is winner of the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America of the Duke Human Rights Center Chelsey L. Kivland’s Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti is winner of the Isis Duarte Book Prize given by the Latin American Studies Association Danielle L. Lupton’s Reputation for Resolve: How Leaders Signal Determination in International Politics is winner of the J. David Singer Best Book Award given by the Midwest International Studies Association Devorah S. Manekin’s Regular Soldiers, Irregular War: Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada is cowinner of the Giovanni Sartori Book Award given by the American Political Science Association Giovanni Mantilla’s Lawmaking under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict is winner of the Francis Lieber Prize given by the American Society of International Law Charles W. Mills’s The Racial Contract is winner of the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award given by the American Political Science Association John Warne Monroe’s Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art, is winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award given by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association D. L. Noorlander’s Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World is winner of the Hendricks Award given by the New Netherlands Institute Stephen Badalyan Riegg’s Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801–1914 is winner of the Ab Imperio Award given by the Ab Imperio Quarterly Alasdair Roberts’s Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century is winner of the Section on Public Administration Research Book Award for the American Society of Public Administration Tom Scott-Smith’s On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief is winner of the Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award Cathy A. Small’s The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness is winner of the Viola Awards in the category of Excellence in Storytelling given by Creative Flagstaff Glynne Walley, translator of Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs, or “Hakkenden”: Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest is cowinner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature given by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
New Audiobook Deals Steven J. Brady, Chained to History Susan Branson, Scientific Americans John Cardina, Lives of Weeds Steven K. Green, Separating Church and State R. V. Gundur, Trying to Make It Laura Warren Hill, Strike the Hammer Sonia A. Hirt, Zoned in the USA Michael A. Hunzeker, Dying to Learn Darryl Jones, A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road
Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, eds., The Downfall of the American Order? Burton I. Kaufman, Barack Obama James Kelly, Where Night Is Day Jeff Kosseff, The United States of Anonymous Marlene Laruelle, Is Russia Fascist? Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, The Tie That Bound Us Tom Lewis, Empire of the Air Alexandra Lohse, Prevail until the Bitter End Henry Richard Maar III, Freeze! Andrea C. Mosterman, Spaces of Enslavement Donald Ostrowski, Who Wrote That? Martha Rampton, Trafficking with Demons Handel E. Reynolds, The Big Squeeze Sarah Robey, Atomic Americans Susan Fox Rogers, Learning the Birds Andrew J. Stewart, A Vulnerable System Lynne A. Weikart, Mayor Michael Bloomberg