African Studies Review Call for Associate Editors
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The African Studies Review invites expressions of interest for Associate Editors to join the editorial team. The Editorial Collective is committed to inclusivity and diversity. We are seeking to appoint up to two new editors beginning January 2025.
The ASR is a bilingual multidisciplinary journal publishing in English and French. Ideal candidates should be published scholars, either tenured professors or lecturers with workplace security, comfortable reading and engaging with scholarship beyond their areas and regions of expertise. Bilingual candidates are particularly welcome. Editors should have a working command of scholarly English; a familiarity with French modes of scholarship would be a significant asset. Applicants may reside in any part of the world. Applicants from the African continent are particularly welcome.
The ASR’s current disciplinary preferences include, but are not limited to, the following:
Art History & Architecture
Diaspora Studies
Geography
History
Literature
The position of Associate Editor is entirely voluntary and comes with no remuneration. Associate Editors do receive travel stipends and hotel nights to facilitate their participation in the ASA Annual Meeting. Current Associate Editors incorporate the position within their annual plans-of-work at their home institutions.
Associate Editors report directly to the Editor-in-Chief (EIC). In consultation with the EIC and Managing Editor, the chief responsibilities of the Associate Editor are reviewing submissions to the ASR for their scholarly potential consistent with the goals and mission of the journal; identifying potential reviewers for submissions; drafting letters of response to contributors; reviewing and commenting on revisions; be available periodically, and no less regularly than once per month for remote editorial meetings; completing assignments and tasks within the ScholarOne online journal management software; communicating via SLACK; attending and participating in other journal activities, including, but not limited the Annual General Meeting, held yearly at the Annual Meeting of the ASA, as time, finances, and capacity permits.
Expressions of interest in the form a single-page letter and complete curriculum vitae should be sent by email to Tracey Anderson (managingeditor@africanstudiesreview.org) at your earliest convenience, no later than Thursday, August 15, 2024. Review of applications will commence August 16, 2024.
