CALL FOR BIDS

Editorial Team for Gender & History, 2025-2030

Gender & History is a world-leading and innovative journal covering a range of themes within and related to gender history, globally and across historical epochs. Its current UK editorial team, based at the University of Sheffield, will step down in June 2025. We are inviting bids and expressions of interest by teams of academics in the UK, USA or Canada interested in editing the journal for the period spanning summer 2025 to summer 2030.

The editorial team would normally consist of three or four named editors, who are specialists in the field of gender history and would be based at the same university in the UK, United States or Canada. Ideally, the editorial team will reflect the broad thematic, geographical and historical scope of the journal.

Editing a world-leading and innovative journal is a hugely stimulating and rewarding role, which we, as the current editorial team, have thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from – not least thanks to the intellectual contribution made by the wider Editorial Collective.

Selection process

Please use the form below to present your case, emphasising any relevant expertise of the named editors as well as the support you expect to receive from your institution. You may attach additional relevant documents that could strengthen the bid (e.g., the editors’ short CVs (2pp) or an institutional statement of support). We will expect to receive bids by 15 January 2025. You are welcome to contact us informally by email in advance of that date.

Between January and March, we will contact you for a more formal conversation by Google Meet, which will form part of your bid. The journal’s Editorial Collective will approve the successful bid in March 2025. Between April and June 2025, the incoming editors may shadow the current editorial team in specific aspects of the role.

The journal

Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole.

Part of Gender & History’s success relates to its distinct structure and functioning. One aspect of this is the significant intellectual and editorial input offered by members of the Editorial Collective, made up of academics based around the globe. The Collective is actively involved in strategic planning, reviewing of articles, and the organisation of high-profile events such as annual lectures. The future editorial team will work closely with the collective and with Wiley, the publisher.

Some further detail on the journal may be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680424/homepage/editorialboard.html

For any enquiries, please contact in the first instance our editorial assistant, Bryony Fitzjohn (genderandhistory@sheffield.ac.uk)

 – The Gender & History editorial team
Adrian Bingham, Julia Hillner, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Julia Moses, Bryony Fitzjohn

 

Gender & History Editorial Team Application

Please provide names, affiliation and contact details for at least three editors, based at one UK HE institution.

What relevant skills, experiences and expertise would each of you bring to the journal? This may include editorial experience, IT skills, as well as research expertise. (500 words max.)

What kinds of support do you expect to receive from your institution, either at the central University level or within your specific academic department(s)? This may include office space or workload compensation for editors. The latter is not necessary for your bid to be successful, but we would encourage incoming editors to consider it. (500 words max.)

Describe the ways in which the research culture at your institution forms an ideal environment for the journal to thrive. This may include a critical mass of gender historians or academics working in related areas; a strong PGR cohort in relevant areas; an interdisciplinary and internationally connected research culture. (500 words max.)