Call for Reviewers

[mummybeare]

cross-posted to a couple of places - sorry if it crosses your path more than once!

We are particularly looking for post-grads, recent post-grads and post-docs. I'm hoping that this is ok, but moderators, please delete this if you believe it is inappropriate.

eSharpeducation, social sciences, humanities and arts review for postgraduates

Comments

[rabswom]

I know that there are several people in this community with desperate secret loves for Judith Butler, queer theory, and Freud.

[poldy]

Do you think there really is anybody with interests in gender AND masculinity, queer theory, Judith Butler, transvestism? Seems a stretch.

[jumpinjulia]

So, um, your journal is about education, but you're not looking for any educationists? Oral history... yeah, that's my area, but so not the other things you listed... I can cross-post this to my dept. listserve, which has 400+ members, but it's got to be more explicitly about education for that.

xo J.

[mummybeare]

We've just brought education into the journal in the last two months (after issuing the CfP for the Gender: Power and Authority issue). We are currently working with postgraduates from the Faculty of Education at Glasgow on ways in which to ensure that we support education in the journal. We will absolutely be needing peer reviewers in education for future issues. We have an Education Editor who is currently working on that at the moment.

I, on the other hand, am one of the lead editors on the current issue and so I need peer reviewers for the articles that I already have in my inbox. I have matched most of them, but have discovered that our database of peer reviewers is lacking in certain areas.

The journal is interdisciplinary (obviously!) and so in order to help our issues hold together, we use themed calls for papers. The current issue is on gender, hence my need for people with interests along those lines. However, feel free to have a peek at the website to see some of the other themes we have covered

[jumpinjulia]

Heh, thanks. I linked my main blog up to the cfp for the oral history conference and sent the link to my supervisor (because i'm not his only oral history loving student).

I decided not to put this call for reviewers on the skool listserve, though, because although we've got people working on Queer Theory and the like, it'd have to be more education focussed... oh! I *do* have a former student I can send it to!

xo J.

P.S.

[jumpinjulia]

I don't know that she reads these communities that often, but you might want to contact 25stories, because she runs the H-Net list on Memory Studies/Oral History. If nothing else, it would be a good place for you to get your Oral History cfp out.

xo J.

Re: P.S. - Also

[oursin]

And for the issue currently being worked on, there may be people who see H-Histsex who might be interested in peer reviewing.

[rexlezard]

I'm going to x-post this over to transacademics you may find some folks there to round out your database. If that's not Ok, let me know and I'll take it down.

[mummybeare]

That's awesome! Thanks. If I had more energy, I'd fix the call for reviewers in order to make it more clear, but hopefully if anyone has any problems making sense of what I've written, I'll be able to sort it out.

[melsmarsh]

Wait... what is a postgraduate student? Is that what we call a graduate student here?

I'm interested in gender and that stuff as I'm transgendered (and mod of transacademics), but that isn't exactly my research area.

[mummybeare]

Sorry - on this side of the pond you are an undergrad, then a postgrad. On the North American side, it's graduate student.

I wonder why the difference? Thesis and dissertation are used differently too. Here, Masters students write dissertations, while theses are written by PhD students.

And out of curiousity, what does it mean when someone says they are a PhD candidate?

[melsmarsh]

PhD candidate usually refers to having most of your stuff done. All of your classwork is done, and you've passed your tests, but you're still working on your dissertation. I'm fairly certain it is the same as ABD (all-but-dissertation) or relatively close.

For my masters, I was a candidate when I had all my paperwork turned in and technically the only class I had left that was absolutely required was thesis (although I did have one other course I am going to take over summer) and doing my thesis defense.

[jumpinjulia]

PhD candidate usually refers to having most of your stuff done. All of your classwork is done, and you've passed your tests, but you're still working on your dissertation. I'm fairly certain it is the same as ABD (all-but-dissertation) or relatively close

At my school, you're a phd candidate from the day you start... and ABD after you've successfully completed coursework and comprehensive exams...

I can't tell you if it's that way all accross Canada, tho.