Dissertation Reviews is seeking dynamic scholars in the humanities and social sciences to help broaden our innovative scholarly network.
Dissertation Reviews (www.dissertationreviews.org) is a web platform featuring friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended Ph.D. dissertations. Each review provides a summary of the author’s main arguments, the particular scholarly conversation in which s/he is engaging, and the main source bases for the research. By focusing on the window of time between dissertation defense and first book publication, our goal is to offer scholars a glimpse of the immediate present of each field. Such awareness, we feel, leads to more dynamic, informed, collegial, and innovative scholarly communities.
We are looking for dynamic, early- to mid-career scholars to help us bring Dissertation Reviews to new disciplines and fields in all areas of the humanities and social sciences.
Description
As a Field Editor, you would collaborate closely with the editorial staff to develop a new branch of Dissertation Reviews. Specifically, you would:
– Work with editorial staff to learn about recently defended dissertations in your field
– Liaise with dissertation authors and reviewers in your field
– Draw upon and expand your knowledge of the field in order to pair dissertations with appropriate reviewers
– Act as the public face of Dissertation Reviews within your field/discipline/area
– Collaborate with your fellow Dissertation Reviews editors in other fields to help continually improve and enhance the overall project
Eligible Candidates
All early- and mid-career faculty, post-doc, and advanced Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply.
As the the ideal candidate, you are:
– Committed to the development of ever more dynamic, collegial, and innovative scholarly communities
– Enthused by the idea of becoming more informed about current, cutting-edge research in your field
– Responsible and reliable
– A professional, consistent communicator
– An active member of your field’s scholarly networks (i.e., conferences, listservs, etc.)
Eligible Areas
All fields, disciplines, and areas in the humanities and social sciences are eligible. As part of the application process (details below), we ask that you recommend a particular area, field, or discipline that you believe would benefit from, and contribute to, the Dissertation Reviews network. There is no restriction whatsoever on focus, only on scope: we ask that the proposed rubric be “medium-sized” – i.e., not too large, not too small. Recent successful recommendations include South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Russian History, English Linguistics, and Science Studies, among others. And there’s no need to have the rubric perfected from the start: we will collaborate with you to help determine the ideal thematic, theoretical, temporal and spatial contours of the new branch.
Application Items
Please email us at dissertationreviews@gmail.com with following items:
– Brief Statement addressing:
– the field/discipline/area you are applying to help develop and edit
– how and why the scholars and scholarship in this field would, in your opinion, benefit from and contribute to the Dissertation Reviews community
– how your own background and credentials speak to the eligibility items listed above
– CV (2 pp. or less)
Further Information
To learn more about Dissertation Reviews, our editors, and our contributors, please visit us at www.dissertationreviews.org
