Indiana University Press
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| Parent company | Indiana University |
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| Founded | 1950 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Bloomington, Indiana |
| Publication types | Books, academic journals |
| Imprints | Quarry Books |
| Official website |
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Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher at Indiana University[1] that specializes in the humanities and social sciences. It was founded in 1950. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. It publishes 140 new books annually, in addition to 29 academic journals. Its current catalog comprises some 2,000 titles.
Indiana University Press mainly publishes in the following areas: African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish, Holocaust, Middle Eastern studies, Russian and Eastern European, and women's and gender studies; anthropology, film studies, folklore, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion.
In 2009 Indiana University Press publication The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume I was selected as the winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.[2]
IU Press also undertakes extensive regional publishing under its Quarry Books imprint.