Barbara K. Pope

Biography

Barbara Kline Pope is executive director of Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), one of the nation’s largest university presses, annually publishing 130 new books and 110 journals across the life, health, and social sciences, public health, and humanities. At JHUP, she is also responsible for Project MUSE, an innovative aggregation of 100,000 books and 800 journals from 400 scholarly publishers across the humanities and social sciences and for Hopkins Fulfillment Services. Prior to her role at JHUP, Barbara was Executive Director for Communications and the National Academies Press (NAP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. There she transformed NAP’s traditional print business model to one that is digital open-access and developed ground-breaking programs for engaging public audiences with science and engineering. She serves as chair of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Generative AI Task Force. She is on the advisory board of Stanford University Press and the coordinating committee of the Subscribe-to-Open Community of Practice. Barbara is a past-president of the AUPresses, and holds an M.S. from the University of Maryland.