Journal of Social Archaeology
Social Archeology
The Journal of Social Archaeology promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
Interdisciplinary
The editorial board is drawn from archaeology and the social sciences and submissions should reflect that interdisciplinary engagement. Established scholars from a variety of fields are asked to comment on submissions where relevant, bringing archaeology to a wider forum in the process. The journal also engages with contemporary perspectives on antiquity, linking past and present, the local and the global.
Broad-ranging topics
The journal covers a full range of social archaeology in independent and themed issues. Relevant topics include social life; identity issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class; the body; material culture; landscape; time; aesthetics; sociopolitics; postcolonialism; representation; mortuary analysis; ritual; household studies, and social memory.
"JSA is the only journal which provides world-wide coverage of the current theoretical and political issues facing archaeology making it central to debates about the current importance of the past.” Chris Gosden, University of Oxford, UK
"Theoretical archaeology has emerged as a new and exciting topic in the discipline during the last fifteen years. The Journal of Social Archaeology promises to further discussions of the interconnections between the practice of archaeology and the diverse bodies of social theory on which its practitioners draw." Thomas C Patterson, University of California at Riverside, USA
Email your submission as a Word or RTF file (accompanied by submission letter) to either the US editorial office: Lynn Meskell, lmeskell@sas.upenn.edu or the UK/Europe editorial office: Joshua Pollard, C.J.Pollard@soton.ac.uk.
The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
Interdisciplinary
The editorial board is drawn from archaeology and the social sciences and submissions should reflect that interdisciplinary engagement. Established scholars from a variety of fields are asked to comment on submissions where relevant, bringing archaeology to a wider forum in the process. The journal also engages with contemporary perspectives on antiquity, linking past and present, the local and the global.
Broad-ranging topics
The journal covers a full range of social archaeology in independent and themed issues. Relevant topics include social life; identity issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class; the body; material culture; landscape; time; aesthetics; sociopolitics; postcolonialism; representation; mortuary analysis; ritual; household studies, and social memory.
| Lynn Meskell | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Joshua Pollard | University of Southampton, UK |
| Annalisa Bolin | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Rosemary Joyce | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Robert Preucel | Brown University, USA |
| Arjun Appadurai | New York University, USA |
| Ammar Azzouz | University of Oxford and University of Essex, UK |
| Reinhard Bernbeck | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Kimberly Bowes | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Mats Burström | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Judith Butler | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Denis Byrne | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Chip Colwell | SAPIENS, USA |
| Felipe Criado Boado | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| Kristina Douglass | Columbia University, USA |
| Justin Dunnavant | University of California--Los Angeles, USA |
| Pedro Paulo A. Funari | University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Roberta Gilchrist | University of Reading, UK |
| Chris Gosden | University of Oxford, UK |
| Martin Hall | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Michael Herzfeld | Harvard University, USA |
| Tim Ingold | University of Aberdeen, UK |
| Webb Keane | University of Michigan, USA |
| Paul Lane | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Ian Lilley | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Gavin Lucas | University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Randall McGuire | Binghamton University, USA |
| Danny Miller | University College London, UK |
| Steve Mithen | University of Reading, UK |
| Lindsay M. Montgomery | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Stephanie Moser | University of Southampton, UK |
| Paul Mullins | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
| Tim Pauketat | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Gertjan Plets | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Himanshu Prabha Ray | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Colin Renfrew | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Uzma Z. Rizvi | Pratt Institute, USA |
| Krish Seetah | Stanford University, USA |
| Alinah Segobye | Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia |
| Linda Tuhiwai Smith | Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, New Zealand |
| Julian Thomas | University of Manchester, UK |
| Bryan S Turner | Catholic University of Australia, Sydney |
| Mary Weismantel | Northwestern University, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.