HCSLA Awards

2025 HCSLA Awards

• May 8, 2025
• 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
• WEC Multipurpose Room (1st Floor)

The HCSLA Awards are given in celebration of the accomplishments across the Jordan Hu College of Science & Liberal Arts and wider NJIT communities. Award nominations, evaluations, and selections are made collectively between the Office of the Dean and HCSLA Awards Committee.

Christie Henry is the Director of Princeton University Press, a global nonprofit publisher with a team of 170 and a legacy of more than 9,000 publications. Appointed in 2017, she is the first woman to lead the organization. With her leadership and enthusiasm, the Press has launched multiple initiatives, including an audio imprint (PrincetonAudio), a speakers agency (PUP Speaks), an intellectual property team, a Creative Media Lab, expanded international programs including sales and marketing in China, launched a new website with increased direct consumer engagement, and formed and chairs the Press’s first equity, inclusion, and belonging strategic initiative program. Her commitment to global collaborations was recognized with the Special Book Award of China in 2023.

Christie is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association, an elected member of the Board of Association of American Publishers, formerly a member of the Association of University Presses board and chair of its Admissions and Standards Committee and Task Force on Gender Equity and Cultures of Respect. Additional board and mentoring joys include service on several university press boards and independent bookstore advisory councils, the Oxford Brookes Publishing Program, the Center for Humans and Nature Publishing, and the American Philosophical Society Publications Board. Additionally, she contributes her expertise as a faculty member at the Denver Publishing Institute, the LA Review of Books publishing workshop, and the Seagull Publishing School in Kolkata and the NYU Publishing Program in Sharjah.