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| founded = 1921
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| country = United States
| headquarters = [[Durham, North Carolina]]
| distribution = self-distributed (US)<ref>{{Cite web| title = Duke University Press| work = Duke University Press| access-date = 2017-12-05| url = http://www.dukeupress.edu/Booksellers/faq.php| archive-date = July 5, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170705201548/https://www.dukeupress.edu/Booksellers/faq.php| url-status = dead}}</ref><br />Combined Academic Publishers (UK)<ref>{{Cite web| title = Marston Book Services| access-date = 2017-12-04| url = http://www.marston.co.uk/marston-client-list/}}</ref>
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| url = {{URL|https://www.dukeupress.edu}}
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'''Duke University Press''' is an [[academic publishing|academic publisher]] and [[university press]] affiliated with [[Duke University]]. It was founded in 1921<ref>{{Cite web|title=Introduction to Duke University Press|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/About/Who-We-Are}}</ref> by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Duke University Press was formally established. Ernest Seeman became the first director of DUP, followed by Henry Dwyer (1929-1944), W.T. LaPrade (1944-1951), Ashbel Brice (1951-1981), Richard Rowson (1981-1990), Larry Malley (1990-1993), Stanley Fish and Steve Cohn (1994-1998), Steve Cohn (1998-2019). Writer Dean Smith is the current director of the press.<ref>{{cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/about/who-we-are/leadership |website=DukeUPress |publisher=Duke University |access-date=28 September 2020}}</ref>

It publishes approximately 150 books annually and more than 55 [[academic journal]]s, as well as five electronic collections.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/About/|title=Duke University Press|work=Duke University Press|access-date=2018-10-10|language=en-US}}</ref> The company publishes primarily in the [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] but is also particularly well known for its [[mathematics]] journals. The book publishing program includes lists in African studies, African American studies, American studies, anthropology, art and art history, Asian studies, Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies, cultural studies, film and TV studies, indigenous and Native American studies, music, political and social theory, queer theory/LGBT studies, religion, science studies, and women's and gender studies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/About/|title=Duke University Press|work=Duke University Press|access-date=2021-03-03|language=en-US}}</ref>

Notable authors published by Duke University Press include [[Achille Mbembe]], [[Donna Haraway]], [[Lauren Berlant]], [[Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)|Arturo Escobar]], [[Walter Mignolo]], [[Jack Halberstam]], [[Sara Ahmed]], [[Jane Bennett (political theorist)|Jane Bennett]], [[Patricia Hill Collins]], [[Jennifer Christine Nash]], [[Christina Sharpe]], [[Dionne Brand]], [[Fredric Jameson]], [[Gloria Anzaldua]], [[Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick]], [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)]], [[C.L.R. James]], and [[James Baldwin]].

== History ==
The press was founded in 1921 as '''Trinity College Press''' with William T. Laprade as its first director. Following a restructuring and expansion, the name was changed to "Duke University Press" in 1926 with William K. Boyd taking over as director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uadupressrc/|title=Inventory of the Duke University Press Reference Collection, 1922-ongoing|work=Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library [online catalog]|publisher=Duke University Library|access-date=2010-04-11}}</ref>

ARTnews named Duke University Press to its 2021 Deciders list, saying "Many a university press publishes worthy books about art—but none engages the subject and all it can mean quite like Duke University Press."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/shaping-art-2021-deciders-1234577339|title=Who Will Shape the Art World in 2021?: ARTnews Presents ‘The Deciders’|access-date=2021-01-01|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2022, Amsterdam news stated, "Duke University Press is a leading academic publisher that has been pushing the envelope in Black non-fiction for the past decade. Their catalog becomes more robust each year by choosing Black thinkers who are ahead of the curve and experts in their fields."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/08/18/five-black-non-fiction-books-to-look-out-for/|title=Five Black non-fiction books to look out for|access-date=2022-08-24|language=en-US}}</ref>

In February 2021, Duke University Press announced the formation of the Scholarly Publishing Collective, a partnership with nonprofit scholarly journal publishers and societies to provide journal services including subscription management, fulfillment, hosting, and institutional marketing and sales.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dukeupress.edu/About/News/Duke-University-Press-now-offering-journal-publish|title=Duke University Press now offering journal publishing services to nonprofit scholarly publishers|work=Duke University Press|access-date=2021-03-08|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Open access ==
Duke is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the [[Knowledge Unlatched]] pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding [[open access book]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/good-for/publishers/ |title=Good for publishers |work=knowledgeunlatched.org}}</ref> Duke has provided books for the Pilot Collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/duke-university-press-at-the-2014-ifla-world-library-and-information-congress/ |title=Duke University Press at the 2014 IFLA World Library and Information Congress |work=Duke University Press Log}}</ref> The press has also published nearly 100 additional books through other open access programs, including Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem.

== See also ==
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* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]
* [[:Category:Duke University Press academic journals|Journals published by Duke University Press]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.dukeupress.edu/}}

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