SHCY to Publish a Journal!

At its last meeting, the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Children and Youth voted unanimously to support the proposal from UMass/5 Colleges to edit and publish a journal for SHCY.  The first issue of of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JHCY) is scheduled for June 2007.

JHCY will be a  peer-reviewed journal that addresses the history of childhood and youth cultures and the experience of young people across diverse times and places.

The journal will be published three times per year initially and will contain original essays and reviews of scholarly books on all aspects of the history of children and youth.  Articles will be secured by voluntary submission and will be invited from historians who use a range of methodologies as well as scholars in ancillary disciplines with historical interests in children and youth, such as anthropology, cultural studies, education, literary studies, gender studies, law, political science, religious studies, and sociology. 

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth will be based in the Five College area with Editorial Offices at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and editorial, administrative, and financial support provided by Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. JHCY will be run by a group of co-editors: Brian Bunk (History, University of Massachusetts), Laura Lovett (History, University of Massachusetts), Karen Sánchez-Eppler (American Studies and English, Amherst College), and Martha Saxton (History and Women and Gender Studies, Amherst College). Jon Pahl (History, Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia) will be the Book Review Editor and Hamilton Cravens (History, Iowa State University) will chair the Editorial Board.

For information about subscription and submission of articles, please contact jhcy@history.umass.edu.  A preliminary website for the journal is under construction at http://www.umass.edu/jhcy/