Brett Bobley Named 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award Winner - Association of University Presses

"Digital humanities advocate and funding champion Brett Bobley is the recipient of this year’s Stand UP Award from the Association of University Presses (AUPresses).

The Stand UP Award honors those individuals or groups who through their words and actions have supported, defended, and celebrated the university press community and mission.

As the founding Director of the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Bobley helped to apply digital technologies to the advancement of humanities scholarship for nearly 20 years. The programs and funding opportunities that he championed empowered university presses to use these technologies to experiment, collaborate, and reach new audiences. In addition to the NEH Cares grants provided to presses and the direct support offered to scholars during the COVID-19 pandemic, the NEH ODH under Bobley’s leadership implemented groundbreaking programs, such as NEH/Mellon backlist digitization projects and the Fellowships Open Book program, that expanded the accessibility and impact of university press publications."