CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. Subversive Comics This issue takes a wandering journey through the increasingly broad and complex world of comics. At best, this journal issue can only reveal a corner of this world, because the world is wide-ranging and constantly expanding. But our contributors to this issue, who include comics script writers and artists and teachers of various types, not to mention a famed feminist art critic and an investigator into conjunctures between African American traditions, literature, and comics, come mainly from the younger generation of comics scholars. The contributions to […]
Yearly Archives: 2026
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Critical Histories of the Global War on Terror A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 163 (January 2029) Abstract Deadline: October 1, 2026 Co-edited by A.J. Yumi Lee, Karen R. Miller, Golnar Nikpour, A. Naomi Paik Radical History Review invites critical engagements with histories of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and its era of forever war, militarized incarceration, and imperial violence. On October 11, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a war against terrorism. Claiming to target those who had attacked “the heart and soul of the civilized world,” he called on the US military […]
The Politicized Premodern Past A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 162 (October 2028) Abstract Deadline: October 15, 2026 Co-edited by Robin Reich (Assistant Professor, Seattle University) and Sarina Kuersteiner (Assistant Professor, Union College) Assistant Editors: Adam Matthews (Assistant Professor, Alma College), Claire Dillon (PhD Candidate, Columbia University), Benjamin Bertrand (PhD Candidate, Fordham University), and Alice Grissom (PhD Student, Rutgers University) This issue of Radical History Review invites contributions that interrogate the diverse ways in which premodern periods of history are used in the present to advance, legitimate, and contest politics of division and dominance around […]
Unsettling Homelands: Radical Histories of the (Ethno)Nation-State A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 161 (May 2028) Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2026 Co-edited by Liza Black and Adrian De Leon The homeland is not a place. It is a problem. It is the central problem of modern politics: the violent, enduring, and unsettling question of who belongs, and who gets to decide. This question animates the nostalgic longing of diasporas, the exclusionary fervor of ethnonationalists, the economic strategies of developing states, and the relentless resistance of Indigenous peoples for whom the homeland was never a question, […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose This issue of Radical History Review explores how individuals and communities have shaped history through states of repose, slumber, and dreaming, as it assembles a history of the present through the study of the sites of and rights to rest in the past. Features Hermann von Hesse traces how meanings of home as resting place for living and ancestral kin changed under new commercial relations on Africa’s Gold Coast in the early nineteenth century. Khal Schneider shows how Indigenous Pomo-speakers […]
Global Afro/Indigeneities Global Afro/Indigeneities A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 160 (January 2028) Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2026 Co-edited by Alan Shane Dillingham, Joan Flores-Villalobos, Justin Leroy Radical History Review seeks proposals for articles that explore the entanglements, contradictions, and solidarities at the meeting point of Black and Indigenous histories in the Americas and globally. We invite work that moves across national and continental boundaries, centering the hemisphere as a space of shared struggle, dispossession, intimacy, and world-making. From Patagonia to Nova Scotia, South Africa to Palestine, the experiences of conquest, land theft, enslavement, social […]