Lever Press

Non-fiction, History, Media, Pop Culture, Music
leverpress.org
info@leverpress.org
sean@leverpress.org

#leverpress Lever Press is a university press based out of Ann Arbor, MI. Though founded in 2016 with the help of Michigan Publishing, Amherst College Press, and the Oberlin Group, Lever Press is not affiliated with any one single university. Instead, it represents a consortium of universities, each of which helps govern and guide the press.

Supporting Institutions include:

– Amherst College
– Bard College
– Bennington College
– Berea College
– Boston College

See the whole list: leverpress.org/about

All publications issued by the press are released as open access works, with the cost of production being paid for by the participating universities. There are never any fees for the authors. The press is a member of the Association of University Presses.

Submissions

“We’re interested in proposals both for individual projects and for series of works consistent with our focus, scope, and goals as an open access publisher.”

Lever is particularly interested in work that fits their emerging lists in scholarship on the ancient world, media and popular culture, music and musicology, education, and histories of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Please submit your proposal directly to the senior acquiring editor, Sean Guynes, at sean@leverpress.org. They are happy to field any queries. For more general inquiries, contact info@leverpress.org.

Unlike other Open Access initiatives, Lever Press is a press governed by its participating members. An Editorial Board, composed of faculty from participating institutions, oversees the editorial and review process for their titles.

Editorial Board

The Editorial Board is responsible for overseeing the acquisition, review, and development process. The Board meets monthly by teleconference and in person at least once per year.

Editorial Board members:

– Mackenzie Cooley, Hamilton College

– Kathryne Corbin, Haverford College (chair)
– Dustin Dixon, Grinnell College
– Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Arizona State University
– Vincent Haddad, Central State University
– Jonson Miller, Drexel University
– Fernando Nascimento, Bowdoin College

Peer Review

Lever Press is committed to the highest standards of peer review in evaluating the work it considers for publication and to communicating the nature of review to readers in a transparent fashion.

As a process of independent and informed evaluation of both argument and originality of scholarly work, peer review is the principal means by which Lever assures the quality and merit of the work it publishes. Please see the Peer Review Commitments and Guidelines page for more details.

Lever Press
Ann Arbor, MI

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