Call for Proposals: Journal for the History of Knowledge - Special Issue Fall 2022

 The Journal for the History of Knowledge includes an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to the journal’s scope.

We are currently accepting proposals for the Fall 2022 Special Issue.

Proposals should contain the following:

  • A description of the proposed theme (1500-2000 words) highlighting its significance for the history of knowledge
  • A table of contents (typically 8-12 articles of 8000 words)
  • Abstracts of the articles
  • Two-page CVs of the editors; short biographies of the contributors
  • An outline of the production process up to manuscript submission. All manuscripts must be submitted to the journal by Summer 2021.

Please send your proposal to all three editors:
Sven Dupré, Renée Schilling and Geert Somsen.

Proposal deadline: 14 December 2020
Notification of acceptance: before 26 February 2021

After submission, all manuscripts will go through a process of peer-review, author’s revisions, and copy-editing. JHoK is an Open Access journal, in principle at no charge to the authors.

Details of the journal's scope can be found here.

A full list of the editorial team and advisory editorial board is available here.