History of the Present, a new journal of critical history, Call for Articles

History of the Present, a Journal of Critical History is a new peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The editors (Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Aisenberg, Brian Connolly, Ben Kakfa, Sylvia Schafer and Mrinalini Sinha) invite submissions that approach history as a critical endeavor for publication in volume 2 number 1 (summer 2012). We are particularly interested in essays that press the boundaries of history’s disciplinary norms. In that spirit, we also seek submissions from scholars thinking through the past in fields outside of history.

We welcome articles that:

-examine the historical construction of categories of knowledge.

-analyze how relationships of power are established and maintained, and how history has served to legitimize or challenge them.

-are explicitly theorized without being restricted to the discipline’s conventional categorizations of method and subject (i.e. social, cultural, intellectual, legal, or political history).

Manuscript submissions and queries to: editors@historyofthepresent.org  

 Andrea L. Volpe, Managing Editor

editors@historyofthepresent.org

http://www.historyofthepresent.org