Calls For Papers

Are you searching for an academic journal, edited collection, book series, or press to publish your research? Take a look below!

Email your CFP to contact@blackwomensstudies.com. Please note that the CFP List is only for publications, not for conferences or symposia.

Black British Feminisms and Performance Special Issue, Feral Feminisms — April 1, 2024

Turning It Off And Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship Special Issue, Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

The Art of Black Preaching and the Rhetoric of the Black Sermon — April 30, 2024

Black Mother Scholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity — April 30, 2024 (abstracts); July 15, 2024 (full manuscript)

Open Issue, Race and Yoga — May 1, 2024

A Loophole of Retreat, Standpoints — June 1, 2024 (abstracts); September 30, 2024 (full manuscript)

Pan-Africanisms, (Post-)Slavery, and Race, Esclavages & Post~Esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries — June 1, 2024 (abstracts); November 1, 2024 (full manuscript)

Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black Feminism, Socialism, Race, and Sexuality — Ongoing (Spring 2024)

Black Feminist Truth Telling: Stories, Statements, and Collective Meaning Making, Global Black Thought — July 1, 2024

Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Black Thought — July 1, 2024

Africana Philosophy Series, Oxford University Press — Ongoing

Afro-Latinx Futures Series, SUNY Press — Ongoing

Black Internationalism Series, University of Illinois Press — Ongoing

Black Women’s History Series, University of North Carolina Press — Ongoing

Borderless Series, West Virginia University Press — Ongoing

Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World, University of Virginia Press — Ongoing

Critical Africana Studies Series, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield — Ongoing

Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality Series, Temple University Press — Ongoing

Cultures of Resistance Series, University of South Carolina Press — Ongoing

Ghana Studies — Ongoing

Government and Politics in the South Series, University of Florida Press — Ongoing

Journal of Africana Religions — Ongoing

Journal of Civil Rights and Human Rights, Social Justice Movements — Ongoing

National Review of Black Politics — Ongoing

The New Black Studies Series, University of Illinois Press — Ongoing

Women, Gender, and Families of Colors — Ongoing

Writing the Early Americas, University of Virginia Press — Ongoing