Advice from an ex-editor: Some things to think about when you’re submitting an article manuscript

Lecture featuring Joshua Piker, William & Mary.

Dr. Piker was Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly from 2014 to 2024. His talk will be oriented toward graduate students and early career faculty in the humanities broadly defined. Dr. Piker will urge authors to think about the publishing process from within the context of their own scholarship and professional trajectory, rather than from within a peer review and selection process that they do not control. He will consider questions such as “What sort of article am I writing?” and “What will it do for me intellectually and professionally?” He will also talk about rejection and what it does not mean.

Speaker Bio: Joshua Piker received his B.A. from Oberlin College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of ven-ues, and he is the author of two monographs – Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America and The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America – both published by Harvard University Press. His teaching and research center on the intersection of early American and Native American history.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Geography and the Environment, Anthropology, Religion, English, with support from the Humanities Center and the Syracuse University Libraries.