Feminist Scholarship
“It’s Happening at FSD: Submit to the Feminist Scholarship Division”
As we finish summer, many of you are in the middle of manuscripts that you will be submitting to conferences in the field of communication and to related disciplines. At the same time, we are heading into another incredible year with the Feminist Scholarship Division (FSD). I will be overseeing the research paper competition again this year. I am very impressed by the wide variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches that I see among the faculty and graduate student papers that come in. Recently, I received an e-mail asking what FSD was looking for regarding appropriate topics. We have showcased research on feminist theories, women and popular culture, race/ethnicity, girls and entertainment, politics, news coverage, philosophy, women’s status in the academy, violence against women, international policies and women, gender/sexuality, Internet websites, and more. The manuscripts coming into FSD all ask questions about women and our complex roles in organizational structures, how we are represented in media, how we are theorized globally, and more. Papers can either have a domestic (where you happen to be) or international-comparative scope. I have also been asked if a male can submit a paper. The answer is yes. All people may submit papers for the research paper competition. Graduate student papers have the potential of winning a top student paper award. We look forward to seeing your papers in FSD.
I would like to thank you in advance for your valuable service in judging papers. We need your expertise and a piece of your time for refereeing the papers. The more volunteers we have, the more we can spread out the labor among us.
Sincerely,
Diana Rios, vice chair/research paper competition chair.
diana.rios@uconn.edu
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Political Communication
The Call for Papers for the Chicago ICA is out and could be found on ICA's and the division's websites. As of this year we are requiring that submissions will include between two to five topical keywords and at least one method keyword, selected from the list available on the division's website: http://www.politicalcommunication.org/2009conference.htm. This requirement will help us tremendously in assigning the papers to appropriate reviewers.
The reviewer and session chair recruitment survey will be emailed to all members in the coming weeks. Please complete this electronic form in order to volunteer to review papers for the Political Communication Division.
Best,
Yariv Tsfati, Vice-Chair
ytsfati@mailing.hevra.haifa.ac.il
