To have your work considered for this unique collaboration, please carefully review each press's acquiring statements and submission guidelines. Each publishing partner brings a special foci and expertise in Native American and Indigenous studies to the books that they publish. Submission guidelines vary among presses.
The University of Arizona Press is acquiring works in the areas of ethnohistory, contemporary issues such as Indigenous rights and resource management, language revitalization, ethnoecology, collaborative archaeology, ethnography, gender studies, literature, and the arts.
The University of Minnesota Press is interested in acquiring and publishing interdisciplinary Native and Indigenous studies works arising out of anthropology, sociology, political science, and literary and cultural studies, with a special emphasis on global Indigenous cultures.
The University of North Carolina Press seeks to publish innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship on Indigenous history, culture, law and policy; traditions of expression and performance in literatures, music, media, and the arts; material culture; Indigenous religion; and Indigenous environmental studies. We are also keenly interested in recent and contemporary histories of activism for and expressions of Indigenous political, economic, and cultural sovereignty.
The Oregon State University Press acquires and publishes works in history, culture, language, and cultural resource management throughout the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Rim. Additional publishing foci include Native American and Indigenous perspectives on the cultural, social, and/or physical impacts of climate change, natural resource management, agriculture and food, geography and cartography, environmental matters, and practice and representation in the arts.
Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics
February 15th - February 15th, 2012
The Collaborations on Indigenous Studies Project (CISP) invites graduate students to submit proposals for a graduate student colloquium on the theme of Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics, to take place at Columbia University in the City of New York on February 15, 2012. Contributors are encouraged to think about ‘Indigenous spaces’ that connect Indigenous communities, bodies (understood in a broad sense), histories, geographies, and academia. Graduate students interested in participating should submit a paper abstract recent CV as email attachments to the colloquium organizers, Aurélie Roy and Maria John, at indigenous.spaces@gmail.com.
