Christie Henry

Christie Henry is enjoying her first year as Director of Princeton University Press, having moved in September of 2017 from the University of Chicago Press. She has 25 years of experience in scholarly publishing, overseeing peer review, collaborating with faculty and university administration boards, and was a founding member of the AUPresses Acquisitions committee, which authored the AUPresses Best Practices of Peer Review in 2016. Her own areas of publishing expertise include science publishing across readerships (trade and academic), and a strong commitment to building supportive and collaborative cultures. She is the first woman to lead Princeton University Press.

Most Recent Projects

• Rachel Sussman THE OLDEST LIVING THING IN THE WORLD
• Jonathan Silvertown THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
• Ted Anton THE LONGEVITY SEEKERS
• Gordon Orians SNAKES, SUNRISES, and SHAKESPEARE
• Richard Primack WALDEN WARMING
• Barbara King HOW ANIMALS GRIEVE
• Lisa Gershwin STUNG!
• David Liittschwager ONE CUBIC FOOT
• Noel Kingsbury GARDENING WITH PERENNIALS
• Ben-Erik van Wyk CULINARY HERBS AND SPICES OF THE WORLD

Best-Known Projects

Rachel Sussman The Oldest Living Things in The World; Richard Primack Walden Warming; Carl Zimmer's A Planet of Viruses; Claire Nouvian The Deep, Barbara King How Animals Grieve, Caspar Henderson The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Lisa-Ann Gershwin Stung: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, Richard Ellis Swordfish, David Liittschwager One Cubic Foot; Sarah Elton Consumed