About The Press
We publish books in all fields of scholarship, including editions of significant unpublished material or of primary texts that have not been edited by modern scholars. A new series, "Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World," builds on one of the Press's historic strengths. We do not publish recent fiction, recent poetry, or textbooks.
The Press's Director and Editorial Board (comprised of Lehigh faculty members from departments across the humanities and social sciences) manage the acquisition process, reviewing and selecting works to be published under our imprint. All manuscripts are read by distinguished scholars in appropriate fields, whose reports aid the Editorial Board's deliberations. The Editorial Board meets regularly throughout the year to consider manuscripts for publication. Our books are produced and distributed by Associated University Presses (AUP), with which we have been affiliated since our inception.
Mission
To publish high-quality books that make original contributions to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
History
Lehigh University Press was established in 1985, with seed money from Lehigh's Science, Technology and Society (STS) program and the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The Press has had four 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; and, since 2006, Scott Paul Gordon, professor of English.
In 1993, Peter A. Coates's The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier won the Western History Association's W. Turentine Jackson award, and in 2006 Patricia D'Antonio's Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia was named a Best Book by the American Journal of Nursing.