Call for Applications: Editorial Associate

Call for Applications: Editorial Associate for the Journal
THEORY and SOCIETY - Renewal and Critique in Social Theory

Theory and Society is currently accepting applications for Editorial Associates. We are an international journal, interdisciplinary in scope, publishing articles pertaining to theories of power, economies, states, culture, gender, social movements, political economy, and related fields of study. We publish articles that make significant critical contributions to existing theoretical knowledge, while being firmly grounded in empirical research. Our Editorial Associates are all graduate students at UC Davis, making us unique amongst journals of our stature. We are accepting applications from Graduate students in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and other disciplines. We are particularly interested in diversifying the editorial collective as most of our current members are from Sociology. The Editorial Associates collective meets once a month, year-round. Participation involves reading a submitted manuscript and presenting your summary, evaluation, and written recommendation at each meeting. Your summary and decision then become the basis for extended discussion by the rest of the collective. On this basis, we make a recommendation to the Editorial Board of the journal. Associates receive up to 4 units of credit through the Social Theory and Comparative History (STCH) program.
Interested graduate students should have completed coursework, but exceptions may be made. Please submit a 1-2 page statement of interest, including your academic department or program, research interests and methodological orientations, current status in your program, bodies of theoretical knowledge with which you are most familiar and/or comfortable, and reasons why you would be a good fit for the Journal. It will be helpful for you to look over a copy of the Journal in the library or online to get a sense of the range of articles we publish in order to ensure your interest in this work. Additionally, you may wish to contact current and former Editorial Associates who would be glad to talk with you about their experiences with the collective:
Sara Anderson, English sander@ucdavis.edu Jaime Becker, Sociology jsbecker@ucdavis.edu
Matthew Keller, Sociology mrkeller@ucdavis.edu
Marian Negoita, Sociology mnegoita@ucdavis.edu Karin Root, Sociology keroot@ucdavis.edu
Aarti Subramaniam, HCD asubramaniam@ucdavis.edu
You are also welcome to attend a meeting of the collective scheduled for October 17th.
Please send in your statement of interest by October 15th, for positions starting November, 2007.

Submit them to Executive Editor Janet Gouldner, either at jgouldner@ucdavis.edu or to: Janet Gouldner, Executive Editor Theory and Society Center for History, Society, and Culture University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616