Research
Journals
History Department faculty are engaged in the editorship of several important academic journals which advance historical research and support scholarship in the humanities.
History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor published by Duke University Press. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in making categories of contemporary debate appear inevitable, natural, or culturally necessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are taken for granted by the majority of practicing historians. At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history鈥檚 influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline. Instead of writing about "history" from the abstract philosophical or historiographical perspectives that predominate today, History of the Present offers a rigorous, theoretically informed alternative based mainly on evidence from archives, texts, and other sources.
Academic Editors
Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Connolly
Open Archaeology is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes original, high-quality research on all aspects of archaeology, published by De Gruyter Brill. The journal encompasses novel, interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological data including archaeological science, theory and interpretation as well as archaeological heritage management and promotion. Scope of the journal includes, but is not restricted to: World Archaeology - discoveries and research, Archaeological science, Theory and interpretation in archaeology and Archaeological heritage preservation and management.
Editor for Archaeological Science
Davide Tanasi
Archaeological Studies is an international, open access journal on past societies and their material and environmental traces, published by MDPI. The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. The aim is to explore, reconstruct, and interpret human societies and their interactions with the environment through the study of material and scientific evidence. The journal promotes the integration of traditional archaeological approaches with cutting-edge analytical and digital technologies, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue across fields such as anthropology, history, geography, environmental science, digital humanities, and heritage studies.