The Idea Exchange has two goals:

1) to provide informative, thesis-driven, and peer-reviewed essays from multiple perspectives on topics that are mainstays of community college and undergraduate lectures (e.g. Caesar and his role in the fall of the Republic), and

2) to model effective essay writing.

Experts in the field will write about these "enduring questions." Having several scholars weigh in on these topics will provide varying viewpoints and encourage critical thought. Each essay will be about 2,000-3,000 words. The honorarium for each piece is $250.

We need contributors for several questions:

--What caused the ninth-century crisis in Chinese Buddhism?
--Who were the Sea Peoples who terrorized the Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BCE?
--What role did slavery play in sustaining the Choson dynasty in Korea?
--What happened to the Mound Builder cultures of prehistoric North America?

If interested, please reply to this inquiry as soon as is convenient. We would be looking for a deadline of August 1, 2012 (though there is a bit of wiggle room there).

Please provide a c.v., your academic affiliation, and the best way to contact you (much of our correspondence is conducted via email).

Jim Tschen Emmons, PhD
Review Board Moderator, Academic Solutions Database for World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
jbemmons@nic.edu