Rust Belt Studies Journal Call for Papers!

In June 2023, I had the privilege of working with 25 other scholars around the Midwest and Rust Belt region at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Rust Belt.

Rust Belt Studies uses the framework of the public and emplaced humanities in order to define, explore, and map an understudied region: The Rust Belt. The journal seeks articles which focus on the importance of regional storytelling in fostering a sense of place, identifying and contributing to social solutions, and reimagining the role of the humanities within this sphere. Because so much of the United States’ problems and promise converge on the Rust Belt, the journal aims to model ways to use the humanities to find new solutions, tell better stories, and empower teacher-scholars to imagine new models for fostering civic engagement within their rooted context. 

All article submissions should be sent via email attachment in Microsoft Word. PDF and other word processing formats will not be accepted for review. All submissions should conform to standards for citation that govern publications in the author's field and should include a bibliography, if appropriate. We will consider short pieces but cannot consider texts of more than 7500 words, including notes 

All submissions are subject to two, or more, blind peer reviews by members of the editorial board.  

Email: Katharine.Trostel@Ursuline.eduand Valentino.Zullo@Ursuline.edu

With this journal, we hope to elevate the scholarship coming from interdisciplinary regional studies.