Category: Behind the Scenes
By Davida G. Breier BACKGROUND I became the fulfillment operations manager for Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS) in January 2010. My job description included several tangential tasks, including ordering archive copies of recently released titles and the laissez-faire management of the off-site JHUP archive. For many years HFS had its own distribution warehouse, but in 2001…
By Brian Shea JHUP Journals PR and Advertising Coordinator I don’t feel very special sitting in my cubicle at work. I enjoy my work and feel like I do things to help our journals and affiliated societies promote the work that they do, but think I rank among the many ordinary people playing a small…
By Brian Shea JHUP Journals PR and Advertising Coordinator I don’t feel very special sitting in my cubicle at work. I enjoy my work and feel like I do things to help our journals and affiliated societies promote the work that they do, but think I rank among the many ordinary people playing a small…
Guest post by Yasmine Z. Kaminsky Kathy Alexander, the publicity manager in the books marketing department at JHU Press, is retiring this October after fourteen years at JHUP. In her retirement, Kathy is looking forward to spending time with her family, writing a cookbook, focusing on her music, traveling, sewing, and painting. She is the…
Our friends over at Project MUSE have created a wonderful blog called Project MUSE Commons to highlight the amazing range of journals and books they make available to readers around the world. The Staff Spotlight feature, written by Alyssa Weinstein, has been a great introduction to some of the talented and dedicated colleagues who make…
Our friends over at Project MUSE have created a wonderful blog called Project MUSE Commons to highlight the amazing range of journals and books they make available to readers around the world. The Staff Spotlight feature, written by Alyssa Weinstein, has been a great introduction to some of the talented and dedicated colleagues who make…
Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Gene Taft as publicity manager for the Books Division, effective September 1. He will succeed Kathy Alexander, who will retire October 2. Gene comes to the Press with more than twenty years of book publicity experience: at PublicAffairs (where he was vice president and…
Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Gene Taft as publicity manager for the Books Division, effective September 1. He will succeed Kathy Alexander, who will retire October 2. Gene comes to the Press with more than twenty years of book publicity experience: at PublicAffairs (where he was vice president and…
Guest post by Yasmine Kaminsky Growing up in a suburb, summer meant two things to me: ice cream and books. If I was lucky, the two came hand in hand. Most afternoons, my brother and I, snow cone devotees, strained our ears to be the first to hear “The Entertainer” play from the ice cream…
Guest post by Yasmine Kaminsky Growing up in a suburb, summer meant two things to me: ice cream and books. If I was lucky, the two came hand in hand. Most afternoons, my brother and I, snow cone devotees, strained our ears to be the first to hear “The Entertainer” play from the ice cream…