Princeton University Press Publishing Intern

Position Description

Princeton University Press is a globally renowned, mission driven publisher, with a profoundly committed team working around the world, including remote staff and others based at offices in Princeton, Oxford and Beijing. We are eager and grateful to collaborate with students on a range of projects, as well as to learn from the many insights the student experience can offer to our publishing.

Among the skills and experiences interns will gain at PUP are an understanding of the peer reviewed book publishing lifecycle, and how the lifecycle is adapting to changing communities of scholars, educators, readers and libraries; working within cultures of affirmation; communicative agility; and managing meetings and projects and calendars. Interns will have access to PUP publications and its staff, as well as to a global network of publishers and publishing partners we engage with across the community of the book.

In addition to their day to day work, our interns benefit from a centralized internship program, which allows them to learn more about their colleagues and careers in publishing. Former interns have helped shape the Press in multitudes of ways, from foundational research on the inequity PUP’s historic publishing demographics, to the reanimation of long ago published work, to marketing in China, to our audio imprint, PrincetonAudio. We look forward to the impact we together can make with ASAP interns.

 ASAP 2025 Application

Apply By February 28th 11:59 PM EDT.

Position Title

Publishing Intern

Maximum Number of Positions

2

Supervising Mentors

Lyndsey Claro, Chief of Staff

Please contact Lyndsey Claro for questions specific to this position.

Skills You Will Need to Begin This Position

  • Very strong organizational and time management skills
  • Passions for academic publishing and books
  • Good written and oral communication skills
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
  • Comfort with internet research

Skills You Will Develop in This Position

  • Students will learn the basics of academic publishing, plus some more specialist-level work depending on the department a project assigned.
  • While no specific technical knowledge is required, students will likely be working on many of our systems and databases and so will learn additional skills in those areas.

Careers Related to This Internship

  • Publishing

Eligibility

  • This internship welcomes all eligible applicants, including formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students.

Materials Needed to Apply

  1. Your application should include the following information:
    1. Responses, of any desired length, to the three (3) questions below:
      1. Please tell us what you hope to learn about publishing and workplace experience in this fellowship. (Replies can be as broad or specific as you’d like.)
      2. Please share with us a story, or book, or other form of narrative that has meaning to you, and why.
      3. Please tell us something you feel is important for your colleagues to know about you.
    2. A list of the names and contact information for two (2) academic and/or professional references
  2. Resume

ASAP 2025 Application

Apply By February 28th 11:59 PM EDT.

Submission Guidelines

There is a single application for the ASAP program; all of the above materials must be submitted there. Press the button below to start an application. To apply for this internship placement, mark it – and any others to which you wish to apply – on the third screen. Your application will only be complete when you have answered the general ASAP application questions and uploaded supplemental materials for each position you marked. We encourage you to apply for multiple internship placements, though any student invited to the program may hold no more than one.