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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practical knowledge, while commanding its own distinct editorial profile. The press, as part of a land-grant institution, is also dedicated to transforming research into publications that reach and benefit the wider public.

Works published under its imprints reflect a commitment to excellence through rigorous evaluation, skillful editing, thoughtful design, strategic marketing, and global outreach.

Since early 1993, the acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing departments of the Press have been located in Sage House, where the staff keeps company with the house’s carved bats and stained-glass birds. Sage House was built in the 1880s by Henry Williams Sage, then chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, and was designed by William Henry Miller, the architect later responsible for many important buildings on the Cornell campus. Contractor and chief mason were master craftsmen who had come to Ithaca from England, bringing old-world skills to the construction of the early campus.

To learn more about Cornell University Press read our history of the Press published to celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2019.

Cornell University Press is a proud member of the Association of University Presses, which serves to advance the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge.

Our Publishing Profile

Cornell University Press publishes peer-reviewed, nonfiction books (and two journals) for diverse readerships under several distinct imprints, each of which have their own faculty and expert advisory boards. The Press also publishes fiction under its Three Hills imprint.

The Cornell University Press imprint has particular strengths in anthropology and sociology; classics and archaeology; geography and urban studies; higher education; history (U.S., Western and Central Europe, East Asia, and military); law and society; literary and cultural studies; medieval and early modern studies; political science  (international relations, security studies, humanitarianism and human rights, political economy and the politics of money, and area studies concentrating on the EU, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and East and Southeast Asia); and the history and politics of New York State. (The journal New York History is also published under the CUP imprint).

The ILR Press imprint publishes books in labor and industrial relations; management and human resources; labor history; issues of class; workplace culture; and health care policy and practice.

Our Comstock Publishing Associates imprint publishes scholarly and general-interest books in life sciences (including ornithology, entomology, herpetology and ichthyology, mammalogy, botany, and ecology); natural history; and environmental studies; as well as nature writing and field guides.

In collaboration with Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program Publications (SEAP) publishes books on Southeast Asian history, culture, and society, as well as the journal Indonesia.

The Cornell East Asia Series (CEAS) imprint, published jointly with Cornell’s East Asia Program, focuses on China and Taiwan, Japan, and the Korean peninsula, covering topics in history, culture and society, and translations of literary works.

The Three Hills imprint publishes books of general interest about the history, politics, cultures, communities, and the environment of New York State and City. Novels, short stories, and other creative writing projects are also published under Three Hills.

The Northern Illinois University Press imprint, a collaboration with NIU, publishes books in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies; Orthodox Christian studies; Southeast Asian history; politics; and books about  the Midwest, with a particular focus on Illinois and Chicago.

Active Series by Subject

Anthropology & Sociology
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge

Histories and Cultures of Tourism

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance>

Classics
Agora Editions

Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

Myth & Poetics II

East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

The Environments of East Asia

New Japanese Horizons

NIU Southeast Asian Studies

Studies of the Weatherhead Institute, Columbia University

Education
Histories of American Education

Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices

Geography & Urban Studies
Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment

European History
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Histories and Cultures of Tourism

Islandica

Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Labor and Workplace Studies
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Legal Studies
Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

Literary & Cultural Studies
Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

Islandica

Myth & Poetics II

New Japanese Horizons

Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought

signale | TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation

Medieval Studies
Islandica

Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

Military History
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

New York Region
Fall Creek Books

Political Science
Agora Editions

Brown Democracy Medal Books

Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

Cornell Studies in Money

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Religion and Conflict

Religion
Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies

Religion and Conflict

Science and Natural History
Cornell Series in Environmental Education

The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library

The Northern Forest Atlas Guides

WCS Birds of Brazil Field Guides

Zona Tropical Publications

Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Histories and Cultures of Tourism

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Religion and Conflict

U.S. History
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Histories and Cultures of Tourism

Histories of American Education

New Netherland Institute Studies

The United States in the World

For Authors

For Prospective Authors

Cornell University Press’s Policy on the Use of AI Tools by Authors
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For information on submitting book proposals, click here.

For Authors under Contract

Overview of the Publishing Process
A brief explanation of how the Press prepares your manuscript for publication and your responsibilities during that time.

Guidelines for Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication

 These guidelines are intended for authors submitting the final version of their manuscripts for publication. Please consult with your editor if you have any questions.

• Author Guidelines
  These general guidelines provide detailed information on formatting and submitting your manuscript.
• Citation Style Guide
  The Citation Guidelines offer a concise overview of Cornell-preferred citation styles.
• Science Style Guide
  For highly technical science books such as field guides, your acquisitions editor might advise you to follow our science style guide.
• Copyright and Permissions Guidelines
  Please read these guidelines with special care if in your book you have (1) quoted published or unpublished material, (2) used any tables, photographs, or other illustrations that are not your own, or (3) reused work of your own that has been published elsewhere.
• Guidelines for Submitting Illustrations
  These guidelines will help you collect, organize, and submit illustrations for your publication.
• Alt Text Style Guide
  The Alt Text Style Guide shows authors how to prepare descriptive text for illustrations that will be included in ebook editions for the visually impaired. Alt text is required for all figures.
• Guidelines for Submitting Commissioned Maps
  A supplement to our Guidelines for Submitting Illustrations, this detailed guide and checklist will help you and your cartographer meet requirements for line art maps for your publication.
• Special Characters Guide
  The Special Characters Guide explains how to prepare your manuscript if it has characters with diacritical marks or non-Roman characters.
• Inclusive Editorial Style Guide
  The Inclusive Editorial Style Guide will help you analyze your work’s sensitivity toward people of all abilities, ages, ethnicities, cultures, races, genders, and sexual orientations.

Forms Required to Put Your book into Production
Please fill out these forms and submit them with your final manuscript.

• CUP Project Information Questionnaire
• Special Characters Checklist
  This checklist is used to identify nonstandard characters in your manuscript, including carons/haceks, hamzas, and characters with dots under or over them.
• CUP Permissions Log
• Permissions Request Form – fillable form
  Permissions Request Form – printable
  Either email the fillable form or adapt the print version when requesting permission to use images or text in your book.
• Fair Use Checklist
  To help determine if you may claim Fair Use for previously published materials included in your book.
• Interview Release Form
  If your manuscript includes interviews with identifiable individuals, please have your interviewees complete this form.
• Photo Release Form
  If you are including photos that you have taken yourself with identifiable individuals in them, please have the subjects complete this form.

For Authors with Books in Print with Cornell University Press

Royalty Information
For information on your royalties statement, please click here.

Change of Address
Please email us to send us your new mailing address and updated contact information.

Marketing Guide
Learn more about what the CUP marketing team will do for your book.

For Booksellers

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For businesses seeking an open line of credit, please download a credit application (PDF). It should be completed and faxed with a copy of your resellers certificate and first order to the attention of Credit Manager, Terry Miles, at 1-800-272-6817.

Discount schedules may be obtained from your sales representative or from the Marketing and Sales Director.

Returns

Permission to return overstock from returnable accounts is not required. Books must be returned within 18 months of the invoice date and currently in print as listed on the publisher’s website. Books must be clean, saleable copies without any signs of damage. Full credit allowed if customer supplies original invoice number, otherwise maximum discount applies.

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Returns may be combined for Cornell University Press, Louisiana State University Press, Rutgers University Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of West Indies Press, and University of Calgary Press (U.S. sales only).

For businesses seeking an open line of credit, please download a credit application (PDF). It should be completed and faxed with a copy of your resellers certificate and first order to the attention of Credit Manager, Terry Miles, at 1-800-272-6817.

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For Educators

Exam and Desk Copies

Please complete the form below to request an exam or desk copy of a currently in-print book.

An exam copy is a digital copy used to review a book for possible course adoption.

A desk copy is a digital or physical copy of a book that has been assigned to a course and ordered by the university bookstore.

If you are in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, or the Middle East, please click here.

For Media

Please complete the form below to submit a review copy request.

For urgent requests, please email cup_publicity@cornell.edu or our Publicists directly, Rebecca Brutus and Alex Vlahov.

Please keep in mind the publication date for the title when placing a request.

Once approved, a confirmation email will be sent as soon as your request has been processed.

Rights and Permissions

Note:  We do not handle subsidiary rights or permissions for Leuven University Press books. Email LUP directly at info@lup.be

For all rights and permissions requests, you must provide us with full source information: title of our book, author/editor name(s), and details of the material you wish to use. Without source information, we cannot process your request.

For translation, audiobook, English reprint of an entire book, book club, film/dramatic rights, or other subsidiary rights, email Tonya Cook, Subsidiary Rights Manager.

To reprint selection(s) or use selection(s) in your class, request permission through Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), here.

If the book is not available through CCC, download and complete the appropriate Permission Request Form and email it to cupress-perms@cornell.edu:

Reprint Permission Request Form

Educational Use Permission Request Form

Cornell University Press has agreements with several agencies for exclusive representation of translation rights for our books. To translate entire books into these languages, please contact the appropriate agency directly:

English language reprint rights in India
Surit Mitra
Maya Publishers
India

French language rights
Vanessa Kling
La Nouvelle Agence
France

German language rights
Franka Zastrow
Thomas Schlück GmbH
Germany

Italian language rights
Alexander von Prellwitz
EULAMA
Italy

Spanish and Portuguese language rights
Beatriz Coll
R.D.C. Agencia Literaria
Spain

Polish, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Montenegrin, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and Slovenian language rights
Lukasz Wróbel
Graal Ltd. Literary Agency
Poland