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The University of Indianapolis Press was founded in 1991 by Sociology Professor Phylis Lan Lin. As director of the University’s fledgling Office of Asian Programs, Dr. Lin recognized the need for a publisher for manuscripts of books and monographs that she and other writers and researchers in Asian studies were producing. Dr. G. Benjamin Lantz, the University’s president at the time, agreed to launch an informal university press, which produced a modest number of publications during its first dozen years, to partially underwrite publishing efforts.

In 2003 the University’s president, Dr. Jerry Israel, proposed the institutionalization of the University of Indianapolis Press. At President Israel’s invitation, Dr. Lin organized an advisory board and convened its first meeting on May 28, 2003. The board was composed of Shirley Bigna, Phylis Lan Lin, David Noble, Peter Noot. The Advisory Board submitted its formal proposal to the president on July 1, 2003, and the University of Indianapolis Press was officially announced by the president on August 11 with Dr. Lin appointed as executive director.