Call for Proposals for a volume on gender and environmental history

An editor at Taylor and Francis has invited the curation and editing of a collection of essays that illustrates the current state of scholarship at the intersection of gender and environmental history. This project welcomes proposals from historians and scholars in related fields working in any time period or geographical context. Essays should demonstrate the analytical insights offered by a gendered perspective on environmental history and, conversely, what environmental approaches can reveal about the history of women and men, gender, and sexuality.

Submissions focusing on the ancient and medieval periods, as well as the long nineteenth century and/or the Industrial Revolution, are especially encouraged. Proposals addressing the early modern period (up to 1820) and the very late twentieth century have already been received, and further contributions are sought to help bridge and connect these different eras—specifically, the time “before the IR/after the Bomb.”

Instructions for proposals: These must be detailed (1,200-1,500 words, or 3-4 pages, double-spaced) as to the questions you’re asking and the specific intervention into both environmental history and the history of men and women/gender/sexuality you are making. Proposals must also give a clear sense of both the major primary and secondary sources you’ll be using. These are due on March 15, 2025.

Once we collect your proposals, here's the timeline we envision for this project:We’ll review these proposals and select some for inclusion by April 15. We may also consider soliciting essays from others to help complete the collection.

By May 1, 2025, we’ll communicate with the authors whose essays we’ve selected to let them know the deadline for submitting their essays is January 15, 2026 (8,000-12,000 words, including footnotes).
We’ll submit to the press the entire collection of essays which we’ve given a preliminary edit along with an introductory essay by the two of us on August 15, 2026.

Contact: 
  • Ann M. Little
  • Sarah Payne