Frontiers: A Journal of Women's History invites proposals for new editors and a new editorial home for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2012. Founded in 1975, Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected peer-reviewed feminist journals in the United States. This inter- and multi-disciplinary journal has made its mark as the feminist journal that most consistently offers multicultural works in forms accessible to a wide audience within and outside the academy. The original Editorial Collective (Frontiers' advisory board) chose the title "Frontiers" to emphasize that the journal would push the boundaries of feminist scholarship within a national context. Frontiers achieved something else as well; the journal, with its interdisciplinary focus on women, gender, race, and ethnicity, has played a leading role in transforming our understanding of the U.S. regional West. Under the present co-editorship of Susan Gray and Gayle Gullett, who became editors in 2003, the journal shifted its objectives in two important ways. The co-editors, contending that place is a constitutive factor, added it to the list of topics of longstanding concern to Frontiers: women, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. The co-editors also dramatically expanded the focus of the journal from the regional and national to the global and transnational. Today the journal serves a global audience, and its pool of submissions is global as well. We seek an editorial team that will continue the best of Frontiers' traditions and create a new agenda that allows Frontiers to continue to expand its intellectual borders and reach new audiences. We strongly encourage openness to innovative, flexible editorial partnerships and technologies. For example, we encourage readers to think not only of forming a co-editorship on a single campus, as per our example, but, of other possible organizational structures, such as a committee of editors on one campus or spread across several universities. Such innovations will strengthen the journal and help ensure the continued prosperity of Frontiers in an era of austere university budgets and rapid, cost- and technology-driven changes in scholarly publishing. Proposals to edit Frontiers should include: 1) an editorial mission statement, including an analysis of the place of the journal in feminist scholarship broadly defined; 2) an organizational plan for the editing and administrating of the journal; 3) a statement of commitment of institutional support; and 4) curriculum vitae for all members of the editorial team. Proposals that incorporate personnel or support from more than one institution are welcome. Frontiers is published by the University of Nebraska Press which handles all production, including copyediting, as well as marketing. Proposals should therefore focus on the acquisition, in-house management, and developmental editing of submissions. For a prospectus outlining the journal's current operational structure, please contact the present co-editors, Susan Gray and Gayle Gullett: segray@asu.edu <mailto:Gullett-segray@asu.edu> ; Gayle.Gullett@asu.edu. Proposals to edit Frontiers should be submitted electronically to: frontiers@asu.edu by January 15, 2012.
