Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
We give you the scuttlebutt on academic journals—aiding you in selecting the right journal for publication—in reviews that are sometimes snarky, sometimes lengthy, always helpful. Written by Princeton University graduate students and Wendy Laura Belcher.
Category Archives: Interdiscplinary Journals
PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association)
For those interested publishing articles that discuss timely and culturally relevant literature and archival materials. For those looking to make broad connections (not close reading) … Continue reading
Online Social Networks and Media
For those interested in publishing data-driven articles or theoretical surveys investigating the complexities of social media and network content. Online Social Networks and Media (ONSEM) … Continue reading
Journal of Black Studies
For those interested in publishing articles on the Black experience. Founded in 1970 by Afrocentric scholar Molefi Kete Asante, the Journal of Black Studies is … Continue reading
Modernist Cultures
For those interested in publishing articles examining modernism, especially from an interdisciplinary or international perspective. Founded in 2005, Modernist Cultures is a relatively new journal, … Continue reading
SubStance
For those interested in publishing articles that deal with recent and emerging critical theories, particularly those that are material or object oriented and have a … Continue reading
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
For scholars interested in publishing social science research and criticism on race, with a special focus on African Americans. Launched in the spring of 2004, … Continue reading
The Journal of Japanese Studies
For those interested in publishing articles especially in pre-modern studies that contribute to the field of Japanese studies (in the humanities and social sciences) in … Continue reading
Anthropology Quarterly
For those interesting in publishing articles that engage with the disciplinary debates and methodological commitments of anthropology, ethnography, and cultural analysis. Anthropology Quarterly is a … Continue reading
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
For those interested in publishing articles that are concerned with the renewal of practices of intellectual and cultural criticism in the Caribbean and in the … Continue reading
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
For social-justice-minded African Americanists and black studies scholars interested in publishing articles that address the intellectual debates of scholars and activists within the modern African … Continue reading
American Quarterly
For those interested in publishing articles with a broad, humanistic understanding of American culture, particularly if it engages in cross-disciplinary work. American Quarterly is the official … Continue reading
The Black Scholar
For those interested in publishing articles that address black life, black culture, black suffering, black death, black sexual politics, black religion, black liberation and all … Continue reading
ITYOPIS Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (NEAJ)
For those interested in publishing original research in the humanities and social sciences on the Horn of Africa. This new, annual, peer-reviewed journal is published … Continue reading
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
For those interested in publishing articles that have a fun, funky, and compelling perspective to add to Queer Theory, especially if you’re interested in the body … Continue reading
Disability Studies Quarterly (stub)
For those interested in publishing articles with interdisciplinary approaches to both theoretical and practical debates in disability studies.
Cultural Critique
For those interested in publishing transnational, transdisciplinary research with a strong theoretical component (especially Marxist) on cultural production as it appears in words, images, and sounds, … Continue reading
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
For those interested in publishing articles on the problematic of difference in literary, social, political, and social texts from a combined Continental philosophy and American … Continue reading
Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
For those interested in publishing articles in any discipline that focus on the Holocaust (which the journal defines as “the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the … Continue reading