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The State University of New York Press (or SUNY Press), is a university press
University press

A university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field....
 and a Center for Scholarly Communication. The Press is part of the State University of New York
State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million adult education students spanning 64...
 system and is located in Albany, New York
Albany, New York

Albany is the Capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County, New York. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York City, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk River and Hudson Rivers....
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Current Status
The Press publishes around 180 books per year, making it one of the larger university presses by output.






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The State University of New York Press (or SUNY Press), is a university press
University press

A university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field....
 and a Center for Scholarly Communication. The Press is part of the State University of New York
State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million adult education students spanning 64...
 system and is located in Albany, New York
Albany, New York

Albany is the Capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County, New York. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York City, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk River and Hudson Rivers....
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History


SUNY Press was founded in 1966 in order to support the State University of New York’s commitments to teaching, research, and public service. Historically, the Press publishes scholarly works that further academic research in a variety of fields.

Current Status


The Press publishes around 180 books per year, making it one of the larger university presses by output. The Press utilizes the latest advances in digital communication to offer a range of print and electronic publications to fulfill the evolving needs of scholars, students, authors, and readers.

Primary Areas of Acquisitions

African American Studies
African American studies

African American studies is a subset of Black studies or Africana studies. It is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans....

Asian Studies
Asian studies

Asian studies, a term that has largely replaced the older Oriental studies, is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures, languages, history and politics....

Archives and Collections
Archival science

Archival science is the theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items. Emerging from diplomatics, the discipline also is concerned with the circumstances under which the information or item was, and is used as evidence and memory of historical facts and acts....

Indigenous Studies
Native American Studies

Native American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native Americans in the United States peoples in North America....

Italian American Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish studies

Jewish studies is an List of academic disciplines centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is Interdisciplinarity and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies....

Philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....

Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that studies the transpersonal, self-transcendence or spirituality aspects of the human experience....

Queer Studies
Queer studies

"Queer studies" is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. Universities have also labelled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies or LGBTQ Studies....

Religious Studies
Religious studies

Religious studies, or Religious education, is the academia field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion beliefs, behaviors, and institutions....

Women’s Studies
Gender Studies
Gender studies

Gender studies is a Field of study of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Gender Studies is sometimes related to studies of Social class, Race , ethnicity, sexuality and Location ....



Excelsior Editions

In 2008 the Press started a trade imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 called Excelsior Editions
Excelsior Editions

Excelsior Editions is a trade imprint of SUNY Press that was started in 2008. It is located in Albany, New York....
. This imprint publishes popular works for all readers and also showcases the diversity of the peoples, histories, and natural beauty of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 and the surrounding regions. Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 story of an Oglala Sioux Sioux medicine man as told by John Neihardt. Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, translated Black Elk's words from Lakota into English ....
, as told to John Neihardt
John Neihardt

Johnathan Gneisenau Neihardt was an United States author of poetry and prose, an amateur historian and ethnographer, and a philosophy of the Great Plains....
, and Hudson Valley Voyage were two of the first books to be published under the imprint. Go, Tell Michelle was edited, designed, and printed on an accelerated schedule in early January, 2009 in order to be available in time for the Presidential Inauguration.

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