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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press was established in 1967 by university founder Peter Sammartino in collaboration with publisher Thomas Yoseloff. It became the first member of the Associated University Presses consortium in 1968.
Peter Sammartino, the founder of Fairleigh Dickinson University, established the press in 1967 together with Thomas Yoseloff, who had previously served as director of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Associated University Presses was a consortium of small-to-medium-sized university presses founded by Thomas Yoseloff to distribute humanities scholarship. FDU Press was its first participating member, joining in 1968. AUP ceased most new publishing in 2010.
FDU Press relocated to Fairleigh Dickinson University's Vancouver campus in July 2017. It retains an editorial committee drawn from faculty across the university's campuses.
Bloomsbury Publishing distributes FDU Press books following a partnership that took effect in June 2024. Bloomsbury had acquired the press's previous distributor, Rowman & Littlefield, in 2024.
FDU Press has issued over 1,500 non-fiction and research titles since its founding in 1967. The majority of those titles fall in the fields of literature, literary criticism, arts, history, and the social sciences.