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Annual Fund
The Annual Fund at Columbia University Press provides unrestricted support to advance knowledge about our world through essential writing and research focusing on the global, the urban, and the contemporary. For 130 years, our widely reviewed and award-winning books have brought new ideas and foundational understanding to students, academics across different disciplines, policy makers, and general readers around the world.
First-Book Fund
The First-Book Fund at Columbia University Press underwrites first books by the most talented emerging scholars. First publications are critical to our mission of publishing groundbreaking scholarly works and our commitment to sharing knowledge.
Black Lives in the Diaspora
Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future is a book series that focuses on Black lives in a global diasporic context published by Columbia University Press in partnership with Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. This collaboration represents the first step in a larger partnership between the two universities to publish more robustly in Black studies and to recruit and support a cohort of editorial fellows to provide an entryway for recent HBCU graduates into the publishing industry.