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A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies

Call for Applications for a Guest Editor of the Spring 2009 Issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange

On the recommendations of ASIANetwork Exchange editors Thomas Lutze and Irving Epstein and further conversations among the editors and the ASIANetwork board members, the Board approved at the 2008 conference the moving of ASIANetwork Exchange to a journal form, with focus on the publication of thoughtful, original, and useful articles on teaching and scholarly activity surrounding the study of Asia in the liberal arts.

We will now publish two formal issues of the ASIANetwork Exchange journal per year, in the fall and spring. The journal will include most sections of the current newsletter, including Research of Note, Teaching about Asia, Media Resources, For our Students, and Books that Beckon. During the winter, we will publish an "ASIANetwork Bulletin," focusing upon the consortium's activity and business. The Bulletin will contain the articles and information now published in the Network News and New and Noteworthy sections of the newsletter.

In order to further encourage ASIANetwork members to contribute to the Exchange in its new form as a journal, the Board's Publicity Committee will extend an annual call after each spring's ASIANetwork conference for applications for a guest editorship. The guest editor will be responsible for gathering, evaluating, and editing four to five articles based upon a unifying theme.

The Board of Directors of ASIANetwork therefore calls for applications for a Guest Editor of the Spring 2009 issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange. Proposals should include the following information and meet the criteria listed below.

General Criteria

1. A successful proposal should have significance in relationship to the 2009 ASIANetwork Conference theme, Asia Changing/Changing Asia.
2. The proposal should include a brief narrative as to how the guest editor conceives of the issue, a rationale for the proposed topics, and how the audience will be engaged.

Specific Criteria

1. It should be innovative; something that would be interesting to the readership.
2. It should include a research component and at least one of the other areas of pedagogy, media resources, or usefulness for our students.
3. It should be geared to a liberal arts faculty.
4. The proposal should provide evidence of viability.
5. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words.
6. The special issues should include at least 4 to 5 articles, and the guest editor will prepare to provide high-quality articles to fill about 16 pages of text or about 6000-7500 words, depending on images or other forms of media (images, charts, syllabi as possibilities) that might be used.
7. The author of the proposal should also include a one-page CV.

Other considerations

1. Guest editors must be members of the network.
2. Board members or Exchange editors are not eligible to apply.

Send applications by regular mail to: Robert Eng, Professor of History, University of Redlands, 1200 East Colton Avenue, PO Box 3080, Redlands, CA 92373-0999, or by e-mail to robert_eng@redlands.edu.

Deadline for applications: September 15, 2008