Ellen Chodosh

New York University Press is a publisher of academic books and electronic media publishing for general interest and in a wide variety of fields. It is a department of the New York University Division of Libraries that works across the humanities and social sciences.New York University Press has award-winning lists in sociology, law, cultural andAmerican studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and communication, literary studies, and psychology. The university press publishes over 100 new books each year, with a backlist of nearly 3,000 titles in print. Its numerous partnerships include distributor of Monthly Review Press; co-publisher of the Social Science Research Council; charter member of both the American Literatures Initiative and Early American Places, which support the publication of first books; and more.New York University Press was founded in 1916 by Elmer Ellsworth Brown, then Chancellor of New York University and is headquartered in New York, N.Y.