Cornell Press director elected president of international association

ITHACA — Jane Bunker, Cornell University Press director, was recently elected to become the 73rd president of the Association of University Presses, an organization of more than 150 international nonprofit scholarly publishers, next year.

A previous member of the board of directors of the Association of University Presses, Bunker will start her presidential term in June 2023. She will serve as president-elect for the next year, before assuming the president’s post. Bunker became director of the Cornell University Press in March 2020.

Charles Watkinson, director of the University of Michigan Press, is serving as Association of University Presses president for the next year.

“The association’s shared values of diversity and inclusion, integrity, intellectual freedom, and stewardship guide us as we serve the needs of the membership and help to amplify the work of all our authors in order to — as we say at Cornell University Press — change the world one book at a time,” Bunker said in a news release on the Cornell Chronicle website.