Osiris

Osiris Volume #36

  

Call for Proposals

The Editorial Board of Osiris solicits proposals for Volume 36 which will appear in 2021. Osiris is an international research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences and is a publication of the History of Science Society and the University of Chicago Press.

Osiris aims to connect the history of science with other areas of historical scholarship. Volumes of the journal are designed to explore how, where, and why science draws upon and contributes to society, culture, and politics. The journal’s editors and board members strongly encourage proposals that engage with and examine broad themes while aiming for diversity across time and space. The journal is also very interested in receiving proposals that assess the state of the history of science as a field, broadly construed, in both established and emerging areas of scholarship. Possible future issues, for example, might consider themes such as: Sexuality; Disability and Mobility; Science, Risk, and Disaster; Science in the Global South and/or Africa; Environments and Populations; Time, Temporality, and Periodization; Ontology and Materiality; and Integrating Histories of Science & Technology.

Proposals should include the following items:

A description of the topic and its significance (approximately 2000 words)

A list of 12 to 15 contributors along with a title and paragraph describing each contributor’s individual essay

A two-page c.v. of the guest editor(s)

The guest editor(s) and their contributors must be prepared to meet the Osiris publication schedule. Volume 36 (2021) will go to press – after refereeing, authors’ revisions, and copy-editing – in the fall of 2020. The guest editor(s) must therefore choose contributors who are able to submit their completed essays by the summer of 2019.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Osiris Editorial Board at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in November 2017. The announcement of the next volume of Osiris will be made in January 2018.

Proposals and all supporting material should be sent in paper or electronic copy

by 15 October 2017 to both:

W. Patrick McCray

Department of History

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410

pmccray@history.ucsb.edu

Suman Seth

321 Morrill Hall

Department of Science and Technology Studies

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

ss536@cornell.edu