

Navigating Journal Selection, Submission, & Peer-Review in the Humanities
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Follow an 8-step process to develop a list of journals with a strong fit for your humanities article (incl. use of periodical directories, article indices, research databases, and altmetrics)
- Select the best journal to target for publishing your humanities article
- Review how to find the Instructions for Authors for your target journal and the formatting guidelines routinely within them
- Obtain licenses for reproductions of copyrighted content in your humanities article
- Use an e-mail template to submit a Pre-submission Inquiry to your target journal’s Editor
- Write an effective Cover Letter that includes all standard warrants and representations
- Follow best practices in submitting your humanities article via online portal or e-mail
- Identify the key steps of the journal peer-review process
- List the 5 main peer-review outcomes and effectively respond to different types of comments using a structured template
- Use a template to write a resubmission Cover Letter after addressing peer-reviewer comments
- Effectively collaborate with copy editors and respond to page proof comments using standard markings
- Successfully disseminate your published humanities article
Instructor

Miroslava Chávez-García, PhD is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and holds appointments in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies as well as Iberian and Latin American Studies. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, since which time she has served as UCSB’s Faculty Director of the McNair Scholars Program, Faculty Director of Graduate Diversity Initiatives, and Vice Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies. She is the author or editor of books published by Taylor & Francis, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, and University of Arizona Press. Dr. Chávez-García has also published over 30 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Further, she has served as an Editorial Board Member of journals including Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly, and Latinx Talk (among others). A popular keynote speaker at both domestic as well as international conferences, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from bodies including the Western Association of Women’s Historians, the Western History Association, the Ford Foundation for Diversity, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.