The Press
Lehigh University Press is housed in the Linderman Library, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Our mission is to advance humanities and social sciences research through the publication of monographs, edited volumes, and primary source collections that make original contributions to humanities and social sciences scholarship. We are supported by editorial staff and a faculty board, and we follow standards set by the Association of University Presses including double-anonymized peer review. Our books are produced and distributed through a co-publishing agreement with Bloomsbury Publishing, which allows LUP to maintain full editorial control of projects while affording access to the significant resources of a large international publishing house.
History
Lehigh University Press was established in 1985 with support from Lehigh's Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program and the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Press's Director and Editorial Board manage the acquisition process of reviewing and selecting works for publication. Promising manuscripts are evaluated by scholars in appropriate fields, and their reports inform the Board's deliberations as it meets periodically throughout the year. Our books are produced and distributed by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RLPG), with which we have been affiliated since 2010.
The Press has had six directors: Nicholas Adams, professor of Art and Architecture; Stephen Cutcliffe, professor of history and director of Lehigh's STS program; Philip A. Metzger, for twenty years curator of Special Collections for the Lehigh University Libraries; Scott Paul Gordon, professor of English and co-director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Monica Najar, associate professor of history and co-director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and, since 2014, Kate Crassons, associate professor of English.
