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 […]
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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 […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review offers a collection of essays and reflections that grapple with the meaning of decolonization in a world riddled with imperial projects. Features Amit Bhagat and Rebecca Waxman examine the anticolonial uprising and colonial repression that took place in Chimur (India) in August 1942 to ask questions about why certain events are left out of histories of decolonization in India. Benjamin Kapron uses the concept of survivance to explore decolonial other-than-human opposition to the Trent-Severn Waterway. Bright Gyamfi sheds light on the life […]
Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians [see here for this call for proposals in Arabic ] اتبع الرابط للنسخة العربية A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 159 (October 2027) Abstract Deadline: December 7, 2025 (extended) Co-Edited by Golnar Nikpour, Mezna Qato, and Nir Shafir As the attempt to eradicate the Palestinian people from their lands accelerates–and with it the elimination of their histories, archives, and stories–the need for new radical histories of Palestine and Palestinians has become all the more urgent. This special issue is an invitation to study the places and spaces, communities and movements […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review revisits the intersection of public history—long a concern of the journal–and the burgeoning field of critical memory studies. Contributors explore contested terrain where radical “memory activists,” populist nationalists, and self-proclaimed preservers of tradition have battled to place their stamp on public narratives about the past. Articles Jamille Pinheiro Días and Lúcia Sá expose Sao Paulo’s Bandeirantes monument’s links to colonial trauma and anti-Indigenous racism in Brazil. Claire Brennan and Ana Stevenson explore local efforts to take down statues of Capt. James Cook—commercial […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue interrogates the power and the persistence of the concept of economic miracle. Originally associated with the seemingly miraculous postwar recoveries of Germany and Japan, the economic miracle has become a fixture in economic policy-making, especially in the global south where the longing for a miraculous economic transformation has served as a justification for repressive regimes and intensified inequality. Roundtable Miracles and Mirages: Quinn Slobodian tracks the globalization of the miracle concept; Franco Barchiesi discusses how colonial tropes of Blackness produce distinct meanings for economic miracles in […]
Mobility Regimes A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 158 (May 2027) Abstract Deadline: July 7, 2025 Co-Edited by Amy Chazkel, Jecca Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, and Evan Taparata Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue focused on mobility regimes. Scholars of migration have made tremendous strides in interrogating the structural conditions that impact the ability of people to move across and within borders and, as crucially, to stay in their homes. Often, however, these interrogations have led to the mobility and displacement of peoples being studied in isolation from each other—immigrants as strictly opposed to refugees, […]
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 157 (January 2027) Abstract Deadline: April 30, 2025 Co-Edited by Yalile Suriel, Kevin Murphy, and Sandhya Shukla Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue exploring the university as a space for possession and dispossession. We ask how the university has become both a material and conceptual site for active discussions of who and what “the community” and “the public” are, and how they are best served and/or centered. This project is animated by contemporary events which have brought renewed popular attention to the life of the university, and what […]