Research

Journals

History Department faculty are engaged in the editorship of several important academic journals which advance historical research and support scholarship in the humanities.

 

The Historian is a peer-reviewed journal of historical scholarship, founded in 1938, featuring articles, essays, and reviews on all periods, regions, and topics within the discipline, published by Taylor and Francis. The Historian serves as a point of reference and dialogue across the field’s many communities, from aspiring and emerging scholars to established figures in the field, from community colleges to major research institutions, across the United States and around the world. The journal’s affiliation with Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, allows it to reach a large and diverse audience of readers, from undergraduates to senior scholars, making it a particularly valuable point of contact for all who read and write about the past. The Historian is also noted for its extensive book review section. This section covers a broad array of recent publications, affording the reader an up to date survey of works in the profession.

Editor in Chief
Kees Boterbloem

Boor Review Editor
Jonathan Scott Perry

 

History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor published by Duke University Press. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in making categories of contemporary debate appear inevitable, natural, or culturally necessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are taken for granted by the majority of practicing historians. At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline. Instead of writing about "history" from the abstract philosophical or historiographical perspectives that predominate today, History of the Present offers a rigorous, theoretically informed alternative based mainly on evidence from archives, texts, and other sources.

Academic Editors
Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Connolly

 

Open Archaeology is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes original, high-quality research on all aspects of archaeology, published by De Gruyter Brill. The journal encompasses novel, interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological data including archaeological science, theory and interpretation as well as archaeological heritage management and promotion. Scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to: World Archaeology - discoveries and research, Archaeological science, Theory and interpretation in archaeology and Archaeological heritage preservation and management.

Editor for Archaeological Science
Davide Tanasi