I’m very excited to announce an important change to our editorial process and structure here at Somatosphere: namely, something that we’re calling the Editorial Collaborative. As you can see from the list (below and on the masthead) the Editorial Collaborative includes many of us who have been working on Somatosphere since the beginning and others who are relatively new to the site.
The Editorial Collaborative is a bit of an experiment. Many – if not most – of the pieces that appear on the site these days are invited, often as part of a series, which means that much of the work behind the site is editorial: conceptualizing series or projects, inviting people to write, and often, working with them on drafts of their posts. This editorial process is already largely a collaborative one, but with the new group we hope to broaden the group of people involved in this process. More importantly, we plan to work together not only in developing Somatosphere as a forum for new conversations around medical anthropology, the medical social sciences and humanities, but also as a platform for experimenting with new modes of scholarly communication and publication.
So check out Somatosphere’s new Editorial Collaborative – as well as the larger list of regular contributors to the site – all on our new masthead. Many members of the Editorial Collaborative are also on Twitter: here’s a list of them.
And if you’re interested in getting involved, whether in contributing a piece to the site or in helping out in some other way, take a look at some of the ideas listed on our Submissions page and get in touch with us at admin@somatosphere.net.
The Somatosphere Editorial Collaborative
Dominique Béhague, Vanderbilt University
Melanie Boeckmann, University of Bremen
Betsey Brada, Princeton University
Suparna Choudhury, McGill University
Leo Coleman, Ohio State University
Thomas Cousins, Stellenbosch University
Des Fitzgerald, King’s College, London
Michele Friedner, Stony Brook University
Nev Jones, Depaul University
Frédéric Keck, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Ann Kelly, University of Exeter
Hanna Kienzler, King’s College, London
Nadine Levin, University of Exeter
Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford
Stephanie Lloyd, Laval University
Tomas Matza, Duke University
Seth Messinger, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Todd Meyers, Wayne State University
Neely Myers, Georgetown University
Michael J. Oldani, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Kane Race, University of Sydney
Sadeq Rahimi, University of Saskatchewan
Eugene Raikhel, University of Chicago
Lindsey Reynolds, Stellenbosch University
Natasha Dow Schüll, MIT
Aaron Seaman, University of Chicago
Nick Shapiro, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Colorado State University
Harris Solomon, Duke University
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Janelle S. Taylor, University of Washington
Livia Velpry, University of Paris VIII
Ian Whitmarsh, University of California-San Francisco
Emily Yates-Doerr, University of Amsterdam