Barbara Kline Pope

Barbara Kline Pope is executive director of Johns Hopkins University Press, annually publishing 130 new books and 110 journals across the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, education, health and wellness, and public health. She is also responsible for Project MUSE, a leading aggregator hosting scholarly work from 400 publishers, 800 journals and 100,000 books, and for Hopkins Fulfillment Services, providing distribution to 16 university and scholarly presses.

Prior to her role at JHUP, she was executive director for communications at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and executive director of the National Academies Press (NAP). There she transformed NAP’s traditional print business model to provide free, open-access digital content, developed innovative programs for engaging public audiences with science and engineering, and facilitated more robust research in the field of science communication through managing the colloquia series on The Science of Science Communication.

In collaboration with P.K. Kannan, she won the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize Award in 2007. She is a past president of the Association of University Presses, is currently on the advisory board of Stanford University Press, and holds an M.S. from the University of Maryland.