JHU Press names publishing industry veteran Barbara Kline Pope as new director

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The oldest academic press in America has found a new leader: Barbara Kline Pope, who will become director of the Johns Hopkins University Press this fall after 34 years with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Since 1997, Pope has served as executive director of the National Academies Press, steering its traditional print model through an era of digital innovation, including pioneering experiments with open access. She first joined the Washington, D.C., press—the publishing division of the National Academies—in a marketing role in 1983.

In addition to that experience, Pope says, her recent term as president of the Association of American University Presses and seat on the management board at MIT Press help her better familiarize herself with the nuances and trends of university presses.