Susan Nance founder and lead editor of new scholarly journal - Animal History
Susan Nance is part of a team that has founded a new scholarly journal, Animal History, published by University of California Press.
Animal History is a first of its kind. It publishes cutting-edge historical research on the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, documenting the impacts animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments as well as the impacts that humans have had on animals and their pasts, cultures, and lives.
Submissions open: September 15, 2023
We seek research on all time periods from the late Paleolithic to the early twenty-first century. Article manuscripts may focus on any geographic region, time period, or species, although we are especially interested in studies concerning peoples of color, indigenous peoples, rural and working-class populations, marginalized communities, and less familiar but important species (from worms and centipedes, to antelope, lizards, clams, and bitterns). We seek to publish rigorous historical work, reading primary sources and material culture against the grain to recover nonhuman lives excluded, ignored, and erased.
Animal History recognizes the varied forms taken by scholarship in the fields of history and animal studies, and the journal welcomes interdisciplinary work as well as scholarship presented through new or creative formats. However, all submissions must be situated in the past and use historical methods, broadly defined, to be considered for publication.
We also invite reflective pieces exploring methodological and theoretical approaches to researching and writing animal history. And, since the study of historical animals and human-animal relationships is a relatively new field (circa thirty years), Animal History also invites viewpoint and comment contributions that seek to push the field in new directions or hash out current professional debates.
Regarding queries and article ideas/proposals, please contact us at: animalhistory@udayton.edu