Call for collective submissions
The editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review announce their interest in receiving collective submissions of multiple (three or more) article-length manuscripts on a common theme, topic, or historical question. Such submissions might originate in conference panels, working groups, or any other form of scholarly collaboration. Authors wishing to submit manuscripts together should begin by sending abstracts of the essays, accompanied by a short (250 words) explanation of the significance of the common topic the essays address, to the managing editor at hahr@pitt.edu.
Call for papers on Latin American/Caribbean environmental history
In preparation for a special issue on Latin American/Caribbean environmental history, the Hispanic American Historical Review invites submission of article-length manuscripts on the causes, processes, and/or consequences of environmental change and its societal impacts. In reviewing those submissions, the journal’s editors will seek essays that advance this emerging field through (a) case-studies based on rich empirical evidence; or (b) the integration of environmental history with other fields in the discipline (e.g., agrarian, cultural, economic, urban); or (c) the examination of the region’s environmental history from comparative or global perspectives. Scholars interested in submitting manuscripts should send an abstract, not to exceed 500 words, clearly explaining how your work advances current scholarly understandings of environmental history in the region, to the managing editor, hahr@pitt.edu. Deadline for submission of abstract: September 1, 2008. On the basis of their review of those abstracts, the editors will invite full-length manuscripts, which will by due by February 1, 2009, and will undergo the journal’s normal process of peer review.
Call for papers on teaching Latin American history
In preparation for a projected special issue on the pedagogy of Latin American history, the editors of Hispanic American Historical Review invite the submission of essays. We welcome submissions on any aspect of teaching Latin American history, including for example:
- new conceptual, theoretical, or narrative frames for such courses
- how courses on Latin American history are affected by the geographical and institutional setting in which they are taught. What are the specific challenges of teaching such courses in Brazil, or Germany, or China, or New Zealand? In a large public university in California or New Jersey as opposed to a small liberal arts college in Ohio, or a community college in Nebraska?
- interactions between new instructional technologies and course content and design
- teaching Latin American history outside the traditional classroom, e.g. in community centers, public meetings, libraries, labor unions, prisons, or other settings
Scholars interested in submitting manuscripts should send an abstract, not to exceed 500 words, and clearly explaining how your article would contribute to current discussions of Latin American history pedagogy, to the managing editor, hahr@pitt.edu. Deadline for submission of abstract: September 1, 2008. On the basis of
their review of those abstracts, the editors will invite full-length manuscripts, which will be due on February 1, 2009, and will undergo the journal's normal process of peer
review.