New Director for Auckland University Press
7 February 2007

The University of Auckland has today announced the appointment of Dr Sam Elworthy as the new Director of Auckland University Press.

Dr Elworthy will succeed the present Director, Elizabeth Caffin, who will retire on 1 June 2007.

Ms Caffin has led AUP for over 20 years, building an impressive list of prize-winning books and making a major contribution to book publishing in New Zealand.

Dr Elworthy is currently Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Director of the Princeton University Press.

He is a graduate of the University of Otago (MA in History, 1990) and Rutgers University (PhD in History, 1998). His PhD was undertaken while holding a Fulbright Fellowship and a number of US grants and fellowships, and his thesis was awarded a Dean's Dissertation Prize in 1997.

Between 1997 and 2001 Dr Elworthy was Science Editor at the Princeton University Press, becoming Group Manager and Editor-in-Chief, Science in 2002 and taking up his present position of Editor-in-Chief in 2003. Dr Elworthy's MA thesis was published as Ritual Song of Defiance: A Social History of Students at the University of Otago, 1990. In 1998 he co-edited Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics with John Stachel.

Note from Bookman Beattie:

Sam Elworthy is the nephew of veteran New Zealand publisher David Elworthy.