AUPresses resolves to speak out - on behalf of our member presses and in concert with the wide scholarly community - about the very real threats to knowledge and scholarship posed by the current floo...

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

The commissioning (or acquisitions) editor is an important figure in academic book publishing, yet they have been largely overlooked by researchers in the publishing studies field. Existing studies depict editors as privileged gatekeepers or entrepreneurs, holding significant power over what does, or does not, make it into print. Drawing on qualitative interviews with seventeen commissioning editors from various commercial publishers and university presses in Britain, this article examines how contemporary editors perceive the nature of their work. It discusses topics such as editorial intervention, author relations, and the pervasiveness of managerial controls, and it suggests that the editor’s authority and autonomy is more ambiguous and contingent than previously thought.

With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference

“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and un...

When students, staff, or faculty are accused of being associated or "aligned" with terrorist organizations, universities may be pressed to take immediate and harsh action, if only to quell media…

Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors...

The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement condemning federal censorship of American history.