2025
Judges

  • Karen Adler
    Editor
    Harvard Education Press
  • Joseph-Alpert

    Joseph S. Alpert
    Professor of Medicine
    University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson

  • Peter Berkery
    Executive Director
    Association of University Presses

  • Ninad Bondre
    Independent Editor and Adviser

  • Hilary Claggett
    Senior Acquisitions Editor
    Georgetown University Press

  • Mary Elizabeth Collins
    Professor and Department Chair of Human Behavior, Research and Policy
    Boston University School of Social Work

  • Chrystyna Dail
    Professor of Theatre History and Director of the Integrative Core Curriculum
    Ithaca College

  • Fabiola R. Delgado
    Independent Curator and Creative Producer

  • Nigel Fletcher-Jones
    Independent Archaeology Editor and Writer

  • Michael Forster
    Retired Senior Executive & Publishing Industry Leader

  • Dionne Hart
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
    Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine

  • Steven Heffner
    Managing Director, Publications
    IEEE

  • Robert Hurley
    Former Executive Editor
    Wolters Kluwer

  • Ilene Kalish
    Executive Editor, Social Sciences and Assistant Editor-in-Chief
    New York University Press

  • Sara Kern
    Engineering Librarian
    Pennsylvania State University

  • Emily MN Kugler
    Associate Professor of English
    Howard University

  • Myer Kutz
    President
    Myer Kutz Associates Inc.

  • Daniel C. Mack
    Interim Dean of Libraries for Collection Strategies and Services
    University of Maryland, College Park

  • Tom McCollough
    Nelson and Mary McDowell Rodes Emeritus Professor of Religion
    Centre College
  • DaiWai Olson

    DaiWai Olson
    Professor of Neurology
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Sean Pidgeon

    Sean Pidgeon
    Executive Editor
    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • Nils Rauhut
    Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
    Coastal Carolina University

  • Beatrice Rehl
    Publishing Director, Humanities
    Cambridge University Press

  • Chris Reid
    Director of Publishing and Product Development
    American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • Jordan Sly
    Head of the Humanities and Social Science Librarians
    University of Maryland, College Park

  • Kanya Stewart
    Strategic Communications and Social Impact Consultant and Director of Communications
    National Association of Black Journalists

  • Jose I Suarez
    Professor and
    Chief Neurosciences Critical Care
    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • Maria Velazquez
    Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy