TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS
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WAS FOUNDED in 1974 and falls under the administration of Chad Wootton, Associate Vice President for External Affairs, Office of the Provost operates in the John H. Lindsey Building, named for an early benefactor of the press and located on the south side of campus across from the band hall is a medium-sized university press (or Tier 2 in the parlance of our business), with peer presses such as Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan, and others whose revenue is $1.5–3 million annually publishes 50 to 60 new books a year in: o Texas history, art, and culture o Military, environmental, Western, women’s, and political history o Borderlands, Mexican American, and immigration studies o Natural history, natural resource science, and agriculture o Archaeology, nautical archaeology, and physical anthropology o Sports, health, digital humanities, and literature and the environment currently publishes series in collaboration with six system campuses: o TAMU–Corpus Christi (Gulf Coast Books, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series) o TAMU–Kingsville (Perspectives on South Texas) o TAMU–Commerce (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life) o TAMU–Texarkana (Red River Valley Books) o Tarleton State University (Southwestern Studies in the Humanities) o West Texas A&M (American Wests) o TAMU at Galveston (Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books) publishes book series in collaboration with o Texas State University (River Books, Conservation Leadership, Texas Music History) o University of Texas at Arlington (Webb Lecture Series) o Sam Houston State University (Integrative Natural History) distributes books for eight other university and small presses in Texas: o Texas State Historical Association Press o TCU Press o UNT Press o SFA Press o State House Press o Texas Review Press o Winedale Publishing o Shearer Publishing publishes books simultaneously in print and ebook for Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, ProQuest, and many other library and commercial ebook vendors sells books all over the world through direct sales, commissioned international sales representatives, and amazon.com and other online vendors hosts and gives editing and publishing seminars and workshops for faculty and graduate students on campus and off offers a gift service that includes personalized bookplates and mailing
AWARDS
Texas A&M Press has won more than 500 book awards including major scholarly awards in all fields in which we publish; all major Texas books awards; and nationally prestigious awards from Garden Writers Association, National Outdoor Book Awards, American Library Association Best of the Best, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, National Book Foundation, Western Writers of America, PEN American Center, Army Historical Foundation, and others. Recent awards include: The Material Culture of German Texans, by Kenneth Hafertepe. 2016 Book Award, Southeastern Chapter of the Society for Architectural Historians. Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas, by Light Townsend Cummins. Publication Award, Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art. Border Sanctuary: The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant, by M.J. Morgan. Jim Parish Award, Webb County Heritage Foundation Dutch East India company Shipbuilding, by Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History. The Ship That Held Up Wall Street, by Warren Reiss. John Gardner Book Award, Mystic Seaport Library. Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum, by Michelle Haggerty and Mary Pearl Meuth. 2016 Educational Materials Award, Alliance of Natural Resource Outreach and Service Programs. Paul Johnston (author of Shipwrecked in Paradise: Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawai’i). 2016 Secretary’s Research Award, Smithsonian Institution. Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake, by Thad Sitton and Carolyn Brown. 2016 Mixed Media Artistic Book Award, East Texas Historical Association. Tejano West Texas, by Arnoldo De Leon. 2016 Tejano Book Prize, Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin.