American Studies (journal)

*American Studies*
Discipline	American studies
Language	English
Edited by	Sherrie Tucker, Randal Maurice Jelks
Publication details
History	1960–present
Publisher	Mid-America American Studies Association, University of Kansas (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Am. Stud.
Indexing;
ISSN	0026-3079 (print); 2153-6856 (web);
LCCN	72620984
JSTOR	00263079
OCLC no.	00818197
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive; Online access at Project MUSE;

American Studies (AMSJ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering issues broadly concerning American culture, society, as well as international perspectives. The journal is sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association and the University of Kansas.^[1] In 2005, the journal merged with American Studies International. The editorial staff at the University of Kansas includes: editors-in-chief Sherrie Tucker and Randal Maurice Jelks; associate editor Chris Perreira; assistant editor Bobby Cervantes; managing editor Elizabeth Wilhelm; and media assistant Ashley Aranda. In 2020, American Studies revamped the journal's blog as Dialogues: Blog of the American Studies Journal, edited by Chris Perreira. The American Studies editorial board is made up of 44 members from 38 institutions in 7 countries.

History[]

American Studies became a major journal in 1959, when it was first known as the Journal of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Association and later as the Midcontinent American Studies Journal. Since 1971, it has been called American Studies and has been published by the ASA’s regional chapter, the Mid-America American Studies Association. In 2005, the triannual journal became a quarterly. A merger with American Studies International (ASI), which ceased publication in 2004, marked a commitment to internationalizing the editorial board and increasing the presence of scholarship produced outside the U.S., as well as a commitment to continue the teaching-focused features that had been sustained by ASI.

American Studies is one of the top journals in the field, with a U.S. circulation of roughly 1,200 and an international circulation averaging around 500. The journal is available open-source with a rolling embargo of 3 years and is available full-text through the following databases: JSTOR, Project Muse, ProQuest, and EBSCO. American Studies uses a double-anonymous peer-review process. Each submission that moves through the process is typically sent to three readers, two from the editorial board and one specialist. AMSJ's acceptance rate is approximately 25%.

Special Issues[]

Each year, American Studies publishes a special issue that concerns a single theme of interest in the field and is managed by a guest editor or a team of editors. They are the primarily arbiter of proposals, acceptances and revisions, but the final decisions rest with the editors of American Studies.

2021 - Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue (double issue)[]

Guest Edited by Michelle Yates (Columbia College Chicago), Timo Müller (University of Konstanz, Germany), Pacharee Sudhinaraset (New York University), and Hee-Jung Serenity Joo (University of Manitoba, Canada)

2020 - Arts in the Black Press During the Age of Jim Crow[]
Guest Editors: Kristen Turner (North Carolina State University) and Lucy Caplan (Harvard University)

2019 - New Directions in Black Western Studies[]
Guest Editors: Kalenda Eaton (University of Oklahoma), Michael K. Johnson (University of Maine at Farmington), and Jeanette Eileen Jones (university of Nebraska - Lincoln)

2018 - The Food Issue[]
Guest Editor: Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa)

2017 - Latinx Civil Rights and Beyond[]
Guest Editors: Norma E. Cantú (Trinity University) and Valerie M. Mendoza (Avila University)

2016 - Sports in the University[]
Guest Editors: Noah Cohan (Washington University in St. Louis), Daniel A. Gilbert (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Theresa Runstedtler (American University), Tyran Kai Steward (University of Michigan), and Lucio Trimbur (City University of New York)

2015 - The Ralph Ellison Issue[]
Guest Editors: Matthew Calihman (Missouri State University), Tracy Floreani (Oklahoma City University), and A. Yęmisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

2013 - The Funk Issue[]

Guest Editor: Tony Bolden (University of Kansas)

Editorship Timeline[]

Name	Institution	Year	First Issue	Year	Last Issue
Stuart Levine	University of Kansas	1960	Vol. 1, No.1	1989	Vol. 30, No.2
Elizabeth Schultz*	University of Kansas	1979	Vol. 20, No. 1	1980	Vol. 20, No.2
Timothy Miller*	University of Kansas	1982	Vol. 23, No.2	1985	Vol. 26, No.1
William Graebner*	State University of New York, Fredonia	1995	Vol. 36, No.2	2004	Vol. 45, No.3
Norman R. Yetman	University of Kansas	1991	Vol. 32, No.2	2009	Vol. 50, No.3-4
David M. Katzman**	University of Kansas	1979	Vol. 20, No.1	2010	Vol. 51, No.3-4
Sherrie Tucker	University of Kansas	2006	Vol. 47, No.1	N/A	N/A
Randal Maurice Jelks	University of Kansas	2008	Vol. 49, No.1-2	N/A	N/A

* denotes associate status/guest editor

**associate from 1979 - 1988

American Studies Editorial Board[]

Crystal Anderson, George Mason University

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Smith College

Thomas Augst, New York University

Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College

Astrid Böger, University of Hamburg, Germany

Edward Chan, Waseda University, Japan

Dawn Coleman, University of Tennessee

Clare Corbould, Deakin University, Australia

Todd Decker, Washington University in St. Louis

Dennis Domer, University of Kansas

Phillip Drake, University of Kansas

Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis

Keith Eggener, University of Oregon

Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Daniele Fiorentino, Università Roma Tre, Italy

Stephanie Fitzgerald, Arizona State University

Randall Fuller, University of Kansas

John Gennari, University of Vermont

Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced

William Graebner, State University of New York at Fredonia

Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota

Udo Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany

Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University

Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Serenity Joo, University of Manitoba, Canada

Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas

Tiffany Ana López, Arizona State University

Emily Lordi, Vanderbilt University

Nicola Mann, Richmond University, London

Carol Mason, University of Kentucky

Fiona Ngô, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sonnet Retman, University of Washington

David Roediger, University of Kansas

Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Germany

Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming

Alex Seago, Richmond University, London

David Serlin, University of California, San Diego

Jane Simonsen, Augustana College

Carolyn Thomas, University of California, Davis

Deborah Vargas, Rutgers University

Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland

References[]

^ "Journal Sponsorship". American Studies. University of Kansas. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-07-24.

External links[]

[1] "Journal Sponsorship". American Studies. University of Kansas. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-07-24.

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