History of Humanities Journal: Coming in Spring 2016

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the launch of History of Humanities, a new journal devoted to the history of the humanities disciplines. The first issue will be published in the spring of 2016.

History of Humanities, along with the newly formed Society for the History of the Humanities, takes as its subject the history of a wide variety of disciplines including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, philology, and media studies, tracing these fields from their earliest developments, through their formalization into university disciplines, and to the modern day. By exploring the history of the humanities across time and civilizations and along with their socio-political and epistemic implications, the journal takes a critical look at the concept of humanities itself.

The idea for a journal covering the history of humanities disciplines from a genuinely global perspective grew out of a series of conferences organized in Rome by the Editors over the past four years.The journal fills a conspicuous gap in the market: journals on the history of science have existed for many decades, as have journals on the history of specific humanities disciplines. History of Humanities is the first journal devoted to assembling scholarly studies on the comparative history of the humanities disciplines.

History of Humanities publishes work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines, comparing humanistic traditions in different cultures and civilizations, relating the humanities to the natural and social sciences, and studying developments, problems, and transformations within a discipline that have wider significance for the history of knowledge in general.

The journal is equally interested in papers on questions concerning the societal relevance of the humanities from an historical perspective. Special Forum sections of the journal will present a coherent set of short papers written by different authors but devoted to a specific theme.

Rens Bod is a professor in digital humanities and author of the first general history of the humanities (2010, in Dutch), published in 2013 with Oxford University Press as A New History of the Humanities.

Julia Kursell is a professor of musicology and historian of science who has published on the history of musicology, literary studies, physiology and psychology.

Jaap Maat is a lecturer in philosophy who has published on the history of logic, the history of linguistics, and the history of philosophy.

Thijs Weststeijn is an associate professor in art history who has published on the field of art historiography and art theory.

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Rick Altman, Film Studies, University of Iowa

Carolyn Birdsall, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

Rüdiger Campe, German Language and Literature, Yale University

Karine Chemla, Sinology, Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique

H. Floris Cohen, Comparative History of Science and Humanities, Utrecht University

David Cram, History of Linguistics, University of Oxford

Mary Anne Doane, Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley

Sven Dupré, Art and Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Caroline van Eck, Art and Architecture, Leiden University

Boris Gasparov, Russian and East European Studies, Columbia University

Anthony Grafton, History of Scholarship, Princeton University

Kristine Haugen, Intellectual History, California Institute of Technology

Shamil Jeppie, African Studies, University of Cape Town

John Joseph, History of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh

Monica Juneja, Global Art History, University of Heidelberg

Rotem Kowner, Japanese History and Culture, The University of Haifa

Markus Krajewski, Media Studies, Universität Basel

Jill Kraye, Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy, University of London

Jan Lazardzig, Theater Studies, University of Amsterdam

Joep Leerssen, Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam

Fenrong Liu, Comparative History of Logic, Tsinghua University

David Marshall, Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh

Glenn Most, Classical Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Herman Paul, Historiography, Leiden University

Irina Podgorny, History of Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Stephen Read, History of Logic, University of St. Andrews

Alexander Rehding, Musicology, Harvard University

Irène Rosier-Catach, History of Linguistics, Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique

Khaled El-Rouayheb, Islamic Intellectual History, Harvard University

Ingrid Rowland, Architecture and Art Theory, University of Notre Dame

Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

Dagmar Schäfer, Chinese Cultures of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Patrick Sériot, History of Linguistics, University of Lausanne

Helen Small, English Literature, University of Oxford

Pamela H. Smith, Early Modern European History, Columbia University

Ivo Smits, Arts and Cultures of Japan, Leiden University

Benjamin Steege, Musicology, Columbia University

Paul Taylor, Art History, The Warburg Institute

Viktoria Tkaczyk, Theatre Studies, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Johan Tollebeek, History of History Writing, University of Leuven

James Turner, History of Philology, University of Notre Dame

Miguel-John Versluys, Archaeology, Leiden University

Hilde De Weert, Chinese Intellectual History, Leiden University

Michael Witzel, History of Indology, Harvard University

Daniel Woolf, Global History of History Writing, Queen’s University

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History of Humanities Journal

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Attn: Rens Bod

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