Harrington Park Press

Harrington Park Press is an American scholarly book publisher based in New York City. Its publishing program is centered on LGBTQ subjects and the broader social, cultural, health, and institutional questions connected with sexual orientation, gender identity, diversity, inclusivity, and equality. The press is associated with academic and professional publishing rather than with a general trade list, and its books are intended for researchers, educators, students, libraries, practitioners, and other institutional readers. The Harrington Park Press name was originally used as an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., an academic publisher founded by Bill Cohen. Haworth developed specialist lists in social sciences, health, library science, and related fields. Harrington Park Press became particularly identifiable with books addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and the social structures affecting them. The imprint’s subject focus allowed it to publish specialized monographs and edited volumes in areas that were important to academic and professional audiences but often underserved by mainstream publishing. Following the incorporation of Haworth Press into the Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Harrington Park Press was relaunched as an independent publishing operation under Bill Cohen, who had been the founding publisher of The Haworth Press. The relaunched press issued its first book, Male Sex Work and Society, in 2014. This restart preserved the Harrington Park name while establishing a publishing structure separate from its former corporate parent. Subsequent titles continued the press’s emphasis on LGBTQ-related scholarship, including Stormtrooper Families, published in 2015, and work addressing LGBT substance-use disorders. Harrington Park Press operates through a focused specialist model: it publishes multiple scholarly works per year instead of attempting to maintain the scale or breadth of a large multinational publishing group. Its list covers social science, public health, family and community studies, sexuality studies, gender studies, and other fields in which LGBTQ experiences and institutions are examined. The books commonly take the form of research monographs, edited academic collections, and professional or reference-oriented works. Distribution is handled by Columbia University Press for institutional, academic, and retail markets in the United States and internationally. This arrangement gives the press access to established scholarly sales and distribution channels while allowing it to remain a distinct editorial publisher. Harrington Park Press should therefore be distinguished from Routledge and Taylor & Francis: the latter absorbed The Haworth Press, but the Harrington Park Press operation described in the reference material was subsequently relaunched independently. Its continuing identity rests on a concentrated LGBTQ-focused academic publishing program and on the specialist reputation associated with the Harrington Park name.

Harrington Park Press emerged from the specialist academic publishing activities of The Haworth Press, Inc. The Haworth Press was founded and led by Bill Cohen and developed a range of scholarly lists, including works in social sciences, health, and related professional fields. Harrington Park Press functioned as one of its imprints, with a distinctive concentration on LGBTQ subjects and on questions involving diversity, inclusivity, equality, sexuality, gender, and community life. The imprint’s subject area placed it within a specialized segment of academic publishing. Rather than competing as a broad consumer publisher, Harrington Park Press produced research-oriented books for scholars, libraries, educators, students, practitioners, and institutions. Its list addressed topics that crossed disciplinary boundaries, including sociology, public health, family studies, social policy, sexuality studies, and the experiences of LGBTQ communities. This focus gave the imprint a recognizable editorial identity within scholarly publishing. A major organizational change occurred when The Haworth Press became part of the Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Harrington Park Press was subsequently relaunched as an independent press operated by Bill Cohen, who had been Haworth’s founding publisher. The relaunch retained the established name and its LGBTQ-centered mission while separating the active operation from its former corporate setting. The relaunched press published its first book, Male Sex Work and Society, in 2014. The title signaled the continuation of the press’s interest in specialized LGBTQ and sexuality-related scholarship. In 2015, Harrington Park Press published Stormtrooper Families, adding another work connected with LGBTQ lives and family or social experience. Reference material also identifies Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders as forthcoming in 2016, reflecting the press’s willingness to publish professional and public-health-oriented treatments of LGBT-related issues. Harrington Park Press’s distribution model relies on Columbia University Press, which distributes its books to institutional, academic, and retail markets in the United States and internationally. This relationship supports the reach of a small specialist publisher without changing its independent editorial identity. The press continues to publish multiple works per year related to LGBTQ issues and remains defined by a concentrated scholarly program rather than by a large general-interest catalogue.

• 2016

  Planned publication of Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders

  [1]Harrington Park Pressen.wikipedia.org

  Reference material identified Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders as forthcoming, illustrating the press’s expansion into LGBT-related professional and public-health scholarship.

• 2015

  Publication of Stormtrooper Families

  [1]Harrington Park Pressen.wikipedia.org

  The press published Stormtrooper Families as part of its continuing LGBTQ-focused academic and social-issues list.

• 2014

  Relaunch as an independent press

  [1]Harrington Park Pressen.wikipedia.org

  Following the integration of The Haworth Press into Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Harrington Park Press was relaunched as an independent operation under Bill Cohen and published Male Sex Work and Society as its first book after the relaunch.

A specialist academic publisher focused on LGBTQ scholarship and adjacent social, health, cultural, and institutional subjects.

• Academic book · 2014

  Male Sex Work and Society

  A scholarly title published in 2014 and identified as the first book issued by Harrington Park Press after its independent relaunch. Its subject sits within the press’s wider program of LGBTQ, sexuality, and social-issues research.

• Academic book · 2015

  Stormtrooper Families

  A book published in 2015 within Harrington Park Press’s LGBTQ-focused scholarly program. It reflects the press’s interest in family, identity, and the social experiences of LGBTQ people and communities.

• Professional and academic book · 2016

  Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders

  A work identified in the reference material as forthcoming in 2016. Its subject connects LGBT studies with public health, behavioral health, and professional practice, areas represented in the press’s specialist publishing scope.

1. 1Harrington Park Pressen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Harrington Park Press official websiteharringtonparkpress.com