 As the only academic publisher for the state of Alabama, The University of Alabama Press has in the past undertaken publishing partnerships with such institutions as the Birmingham Museum of Art and Samford University, and The College of Agriculture, the Jule Collins Smith Museum, and the Pebble Hill Center for the Humanities at Auburn University.It serves as the publisher of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) imprint for experimental fiction.The University of Alabama Press was founded in the fall of 1945 with J.