San Diego State University Press
San Diego State University Press is the longest established university press in the CSU system. The press was founded in 1959, and from 1989 to 2008 it operated offices on both the San Diego and Imperial Valley campuses. Harry Polkinhorn has been Director of SDSU Press since 1989. Sheila Dollente held the position of Associate Director for 18 years, working with the Calexico office until its closing in 2008. An Editorial Board oversees the publication offerings that focus on two main areas in which the press specializes: Southwest and U.S.-Mexico Border History, and Cultural Theory/Postmodernism. Past inventory and some special projects for the university have been published in areas other than the two specializations. An example is Dead Sea Scrolls, an exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Selected titles:
Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770, by Juan Crespí. Edited and translated by Alan K. Brown
Fluxus: The History of an Attitude, by Owen F. Smith
Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind, by Noam Chomsky
Series: Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture
Women on the Road. . . , by Rosina Conde
Series: Baja California Literature in Translation
Border Lives, Editors H. Polkinhorn, G. Trujillo Muñoz, Rogelio Reyes
Imprint: Binational Press/Editorial Binacional
