History of the Present

Editors 
Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study (emerita)
Brian Connolly, University of South Florida

Associate Editors
Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College
Kriti Kapila, Kings College (London)
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
Sara Pursley, New York University
Sylvia Schafer, University of Connecticut (emerita)

Advisory Board
Nasser Abourahme, Bowdoin College
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College and Columbia University
Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (India)
Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University
Peter Coviello, University of Illinois, Chicago
Alan Shane Dillingham, Arizona State University
Omnia El-Shakry, Yale University
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
Basit Iqbal, McMaster University (Canada)
Rajbir Singh Judge, California State University at Long Beach
Ben Kafka, Columbia University
†Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
John Lardas Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
Alaina Morgan, University of Southern California
Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
Daniel Nemser, University of Michigan
Denise Riley, University of East Anglia (UK) emerita
Ana Schwartz, University of Texas, Austin
Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan
Christopher Taylor, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Weed, Brown University
Angela Zimmerman, George Washington University

The editors invite submissions that approach history as a critical endeavor. We are particularly interested in essays that press the boundaries of history’s disciplinary norms. In that spirit, we also welcome work from scholars thinking through the past in fields outside of history.

Please read Duke University Press's "Ethics and Policies for Journals," especially the section titled "Originality and the Use of AI." The use of generative AI must be disclosed in your manuscript in order for it to be published in History of the Present.

To submit an article, please send it to History of the Present, jws@ias.edu.

The process of review is as follows: first the editors read the article to see if it fits the journal’s stated mission. If they find that it does, it is then sent, anonymized, to two outside reviewers who are asked to make one of three recommendations: Accept (with minor revisions); Revise and Resubmit; Reject. In all cases, authors are provided with the readers’ reports.

When an article is accepted, authors are provided with a Duke University Press style guide for the journal.

The journal accepts articles that vary in length from 9,000 to 11,000 words. From time to time, there is a special thematic issue that is announced in advance in a call for papers. Sometimes, scholars propose a thematic issue for editorial consideration. We also publish interventions: pieces that make a substantial argument about a topic, concept, or issue of current concern. Interventions are usually around 5,000 words. From time to time, we publish a forum that reflects on a classic work from a contemporary perspective. For this we recruit essays from scholars we think will provide critical commentary on the text.

If there are tables, images, or figures that accompany an article, we ask that they be submitted as separate files. The full guidelines for permissions and art preparation, including alt text, are part of Duke University Press’s submission guidelines.