Our journal seeks scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, in particular those emphasizing anthropology’s capacity to shape public issues, social problems, and global realities. These submissions should contain original research.

The two types of submissions accepted include:

1. Scholarly articles: under 6,000 words in length, subject to a peer review process.

2. Commentary submissions: opinion or theory pieces that are the original work of the author. Commentary submissions might include such mediums as written pieces (approx. 2,000 words in length), photo essays (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTube© clips (10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length).

Student Anthropologist not only aims to publish excellent research but also provide an avenue for professionalization for students to become involved in the journal process.

For further details click here –> SA CFP April

This also means we are looking for some peer reviewers to help with the review process.

If you are interested in being or have any questions about being a peer reviewer for Student Anthropologist Journal, please email: nasaejournal@gmail.com

(Also take a look a this little 2012 post over at Savage Minds on the virtues of peer reviewers)

We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, in particular those emphasizing anthropology’s capacity to shape public issues, social problems, and global realities. These submissions should contain original research.

The two types of submissions accepted include:

1. Scholarly articles: under 6,000 words in length, subject to a peer review process.

2. Commentary submissions: opinion or theory pieces that are the original work of the author. Commentary submissions might include such mediums as written pieces (approx. 2,000 words in length), photo essays (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTube© clips (10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length).

Further details click on the link –> SA CFP Jan

Student Anthropologist 2012, Volume 3, Issue 1

“We are excited to release our third issue, my first issue as Editor of Student Anthropologist. This year the journal has seen many changes including assembling a new Editorial Board, the addition of a Book Review section, and general strengthening of journal processes. After a year of editorial work I have come to see the importance of close communication between authors, peer reviewers, and Editorial Board members as fundamental to encouraging productive publishing, of which revision is key. The writing process is a social effort and Student Anthropologist is committed fostering these conversations, which will improve research, writing, and representation practices among student scholars.”

Jessica A. Hardin (Editor)

Call for Papers for Special Issues:

African Diaspora Religion

Submission Deadline

October 31, 2012

and

Anthropological Fieldwork: Innovative Applications of Methodology and Technology

Submission Deadline

January 11, 2013

Please click on the title links to see the cfps, or scroll down to the posts below. If you have questions about the special issues please contact the appropriate Guest Editors:

Lisanne Norman, African Diaspora Religion: lnorman918@gmail.com.

Kimberley Garza, Aaqib Adnan and Sarah Manandhar, Anthropological Fieldwork: SATSspecialissue@gmail.com.

If you have questions about Student Anthropologist or are interested in getting involved please contact Jessica Hardin, the Editor at nasaejournal@gmail.com. Also visit our temporary website http://studentanthropologist.wordpress.com/

Submission Deadline January 11, 2013

Student Anthropologist is the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists (the largest organization of anthropologist students in the world). It is an annual digital publication which invites students from all levels and disciplines to contribute.

As anthropologists, we develop research plans based on the best use of methodology and technology for our project needs, yet finding resources to assist in project design remains a challenge. This issue is designed to serve as a forum in which students can share novel uses of resources, technologies, as well as experiences from the field in which they have overcome novel issues. This issue will feature papers from across all subfields and will describe innovative applications of methods or technology from within anthropology or outside the field to actual fieldwork. This issue will provide students at all levels of study the opportunity to share experiences as well as reviews of possible technologies and novel applications of methodology.

We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, in particular those emphasizing novel application of methods and technology. Submissions should be based on original research projects or project proposals. Submissions may describe ongoing research or research that has not begun, as long as adequate descriptions of the methodologies and technologies used are included.  Submissions accepted include:

Commentary discussing innovative solutions to classic problems. This can include anecdotal tales from the field, or discussions of impromptu solutions to issues such as gaining the trust of potential informants, overcoming difficulties in procuring samples, systematizing recording methods between team members, etc.

• Descriptions of research based on novel applications of interdisciplinary methodologies. Interdisciplinary methodologies may include the incorporation of methods borrowed from other fields, such as psychology, art history, or biology, as well as the use of archaeological methods in ethnography, ethnographic methods in linguistic research, etc.
• Analyses of the usefulness of the application of a particular method and/or technology to a research project. Submitters should feel free to use this as an avenue for discussion of techniques which proved difficult or unfeasible, or the successful incorporation of new technologies, ranging from the incorporation of iPads to highly technical scientific equipment in research.
• Reviews of books written specifically as guides to methodology or technology.
• Literature reviews of a particular methodology or technology. This must include an extensive history of the technique under discussion as well as recommendations for incorporating the technique into future research.

Submissions should be 4,000-6,000 words in length, and are subject to a peer review process.

Submission Guidelines

Any student currently enrolled in a BA, MA, or PhD program is welcome to submit articles to be considered for publication. While this is an anthropology journal, students do not need to be enrolled in an anthropology program.

All submissions should be sent in a single document as an attachment and saved in Microsoft Office Word (.doc or .docx) or Mac Pages (.pages) format and conform to AAA style (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf). Submissions should be double spaced and adhere to the word limits outlined in this CFP. Please remove all identifying information from the manuscript and include a cover page including name, institution, student status, up to five keywords describing the paper, and a 250 word abstract. Please save the document with your last name in the title.

Send submissions, as well as any questions, to the Editors, at SATSspecialissue@gmail.com.

Submission Deadline September 30, 2012

Aims and Scope:

This special issue aims to explore the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of African diaspora religions. From the beginning of anthropological study, Africana religion has been at the forefront of anthropological inquiry. Africana Religion (African and African diaspora religion, also including those religions influenced by the diversity of African cultural heritage) has provided a space in which anthropologists have been able to explore concepts about kinship (both fictive and non-fictive), ritual, embodiment, identity, transnationalism, diversity, etc. This inquiry has continued up to the present day as African diaspora religions have become transnational and are networks through which ideas about spirituality, community, authenticity, origins, body and space circulate.

In addition, this special issue will examine the latest work on African diaspora religious practice, its contribution to the field of anthropology, and a discussion of its trajectory and where scholars hope to see it go in the future. This edition will discuss and examine the different ways of viewing and analyzing the African diaspora in and through religious practice, and the accompanying complications that occur in social, political, cultural and material life. This special issue will seek to explore how African diaspora religious tradition intersects with and enhances discussions of a wide array of topics such as the environment, globalization, spatialization, urbanization, immigration, etc.

We seek to bring together a diverse range of scholars working on different aspects of African diaspora religion. We will only accept original scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide. Below are a list of possible areas of inquiry, but please do not feel limited to these questions only.

Possible questions and areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

• The contribution of African diaspora religions to the study of anthropology
• How do African diaspora religions intersect with music, film, performance, visual arts, media studies, history, philosophy, sociology, gender studies, political science, economics, education, geography, environmental science, legal studies, and public health?
• How do complex concepts such as “blackness” and “Africanness” inform each other and shape individual and group/community religious identities? And what do they ultimately mean, especially given the temporal and spatial distance from the African continent?
• How do lived and imagined experiences of religious diasporic spaces differ between individual and group?
• How do different diaspora communities relate to each other across boundaries of time, space and historical context?
• How is “Africa” (re)imagined in different ways within these African diasporic religions?

Submission Guidelines

Any student currently enrolled in a BA, MA, or PhD program is welcome to submit original research to be considered for publication. While this is an anthropology journal, students do not need to be enrolled in an anthropology program.

All submissions should be under 6,000 words in length and are subject to a peer review process. All submissions should be sent in a single document as an attachment and saved in Microsoft Office Word (.doc or .docx) or Mac Pages (.pages) format and conform to AAA style (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf). Submissions should be double spaced and adhere to the word limits outlined in this CFP. Rarely, we consider longer submissions or those of an irregular nature.

Please remove all identifying information from the manuscript and include a coverpage including name, institution, student status, up to five keywords describing the paper, and an 250 word abstract. Please save the document with your last name in the title.

Send submissions, as well as any questions, to the Special Issue Guest Editor, Lisanne C Norman, at lnorman918@gmail.com.

Special Issue Guest Editor Bio: Lisanne C Norman is currently in the fifth year of her PhD at Harvard University. Her research focus is African Americans who practice Yoruba religion from 1959-present. Her work is an analysis of the expansion of this predominantly Afro-Cuba religious community to include the numerous African Americans who converted during the 1960s and 1970s. The work will also analyze the role that African diaspora civil rights and geopolitical movements played in the transmission and adaptation of this religious practice and how that has come to define its current practice. Through participation-observation and semi-structured interviews, Lisanne hopes to understand how global forces have come to shape this transnational religious practice and how emerging African diaspora networks have worked to change the dynamics of religious practice not only for African Americans, but for Afro-Cubans and Nigerian practitioners as well. Lisanne is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Deadline: June 1, 2012

*Those interested in submitting proposals should contact Jessica Hardin, Editor of Student Anthropologist, at nasaejournal@gmail.com.*

Student Anthropologist is seeking Special Issue Proposals for an issue to be produced in 2012.  The Guest Editors’ main editorial task is to manage the peer review of submitted manuscripts and contribute an introductory note/essay. Guest Editors should recommend papers for publication only on the basis of academic merit and subject appropriateness. The Guest Editor will work closely with Jessica Hardin throughout the peer review and production process. All proposals are subject to approval by the journal following a discussion of the proposed Special Issue among the journal’s Editorial Board.

• A list including names, emails, affiliations, and a short biography (one paragraph) of the Lead Guest Editor and any additional Guest Editors who will manage the Special Issue. Please include CVs.
• A brief description of the special issue (200-300 words) including a working title, proposed aims and scope, an overview of the Special Issue’s intended focus, and a list of the topics to be covered.
• A call for papers or a list of contributors with brief bio (50 words or less) and article abstracts (200 words)
• A proposed timeline and schedule.