Peer-Reviewer

The following are academic journals that I regularly peer review for (sorted alphabetically to not show any favoritism). I have provided a synopsis of the journal and a link to their website. If they are a good match, I encourage you to visit their website for information about submitting your own research. Who knows, maybe the next article I review for them will be yours!

Emotion, Space and Society

Journal Synopsis
Emotion, Space and Society provides a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. These objectives are broadly conceived and seek to encourage investigations of feelings, encounter and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The journal's presentational structure and style demonstrates the richness generated by multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary engagements with emotions and affects. The journal emphasizes intellectually and critically grounded work, and offering a unique and timely opportunity to explore exciting new ways to think about natures, cultures and histories of emotional life.

Ethnography and Education

Journal Synopsis
Ethnography and Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles that illuminate educational practices through empirical methodologies, which prioritize the experiences and perspectives of those involved. The journal is open to a wide range of ethnographic research that emanates from the perspectives of sociology, linguistics, history, psychology and general educational studies as well as anthropology. The journal’s priority is to support ethnographic research that involves long-term engagement with those studied in order to understand their cultures, uses multiple methods of generating data, and recognizes the centrality of the researcher in the research process.

Information, Communication & Society

Journal Synopsis
Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic, and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the center of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies. iCS analyses such questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Journal Synopsis
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JCE), published bi-monthly, is an international and interdisciplinary forum for research using ethnographic methods to examine human behavior in natural settings. JCE brings you relevant material that examines a broad spectrum of social interactions and practices - in subcultures, cultures, organizations, and societies - from a variety of academic disciplines including, but not limited to, Anthropology, Communications, Criminal Justice, Education, Health Studies, Management, Marketing, and Sociology.

New Media & Society

Journal Synopsis
New Media & Society is a top-ranked, peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes key research from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, the political and information sciences and the humanities. It is committed to high-quality research that explores the relationship between theory, policy and practice. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

Open Journal of Social Sciences

Journal Synopsis
The Open Journal of Social Sciences (JSS) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that deals with both applied and theoretical issues. Special Issues devoted to important topics in social science will occasionally be published. The main objective of JSS is to offer an intellectual platform to the international scholars and it aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in social science. Generally, accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed hard copy. We are also interested in: 1) Short Reports – 2-5 page papers where an author can present either preliminary data or an idea with theoretical background but has not yet completed the research needed for a complete paper; 2) Book Reviews – Comments and critiques.

Qualitative Sociology Review

Journal Synopsis
Qualitative Sociology Review publishes empirical, methodological, and theoretical articles applicable to all fields and specializations within sociology. Every submitted paper is blind reviewed and quality-controlled by two reviewers. The Editorial Staff and Consulting Editors strive to operate at a high level of scientific quality. Respecting a long tradition in the social sciences of gaining an interpretive understanding of social phenomena, we continue to cultivate and develop the use of qualitative research as a tool of sociological inquiry. Cooperation, integration and the development of a scientific community. This international scientific journal is open-access. It enables a free flow of information and the integration of the community of qualitative sociologists.

Social Currents

Journal Synopsis
Social Currents, the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly.

Understanding and Dismantling Privilege

Journal Synopsis
Understanding and Dismantling Privilege is a peer reviewed, double-blind academic journal. As an interdisciplinary journal, it focuses on the intersectional aspects of privilege, bridging academia and practice, highlighting activism, and offering a forum for creative introspection on issues of inequity, power and privilege. Its sole purpose is the dissemination of knowledge to as wide an audience possible. The journal is free to individuals and institutions. Understanding & Dismantling Privilege is sponsored by The Privilege Institute and The Matrix Center.

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