[AIW] NAISA Call for Editor and Call for Editorial Board

[AIW - Bartl]

Dear NAISA Members and Friends,

The Council of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association/NAISA is now in the process of soliciting applications for the inaugural Editor and Editorial Board for the Association’s official scholarly journal, Native American and Indigenous Studies, or NAIS.  After two years of consultation, negotiation, and careful consideration, we’re now at a point of seeing the next exciting stage of NAISA’s development, and our journal is an important part of that process, one that requires your help to be fully realized.

NAIS will be published twice a year by the University of Minnesota Press, and has as its mandate a focus on publishing the best interdisciplinary scholarship in international Native American and Indigenous Studies.  It will draw on the extraordinary professional expertise of our ever-expanding membership, and will provide an intellectually rigorous and ethically engaged forum for smart, provocative, and exciting scholarship in the field.  It will provide a forum for different kinds of research, intellectual traditions, and knowledge practices to be placed in conversation, where we can extend our understandings across disciplinary and epistemological boundaries and learn more about the important work going on in scores of different fields and regions.

These are big ambitions, but they're no different from those that led to NAISA, and look where we are now! Still, none of these ideas bear fruit without you. The inaugural Editor and Editorial Board will set the foundation for the journal and its future growth; in many ways, if NAIS is the prominent venue we anticipate it will become, the Editor and Editorial Board will help to shape much of the trajectory for published scholarship in the field for some time to come.

For these reasons, we hope that you will help to either step forward as a candidate and/or encourage others to do so.  This is a significant way that NAISA members can have an impact on the field that goes well beyond the annual conference or the important work we do in our home institutions and intellectual communities.  Given the amazing skills, training, and qualifications of our members, there’s no doubt that NAISA has the resources in abundance.  What we need now is your willingness to serve.

We’d love to see applications from a good cross-section of members from various ranks, disciplines, countries, institutions, and backgrounds; breadth of experience coupled with depth of disciplinary knowledge can only be a good thing!  If you’re interested in offering your services, take a look at the Calls and see which one seems most appropriate for your time, energy, and experience.  Even if you’re not quite ready to take on this task but know a member who would be an excellent candidate, please encourage her/him to submit an application.  The work of the Editor (or Editors—we’re open to more unconventional editorial partnerships) is vital, but so too is that of the Editorial Board, which we see as being more than simply consultative but fully part of the journal’s editorial process.

NAISA's success so far has been intimately tied to the willingness of our membership to offer their vision and service to the larger good. This is even more essential for the new journal.

Sincerely, 
Daniel Heath-Justice, NAISA Council, Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Journal Committee

submitted by K. Tsianina Lomawaima
NAISA President 2012-2103

c/o David Chang
1110 Heller Hall
271 19th Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

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