Manuscript Submissions
Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any other popular or academic representation of adoption. More information is available on the ASAC website. There are no charges to authors for processing of submissions.
Peer Review Statement
Essays submitted to Adoption & Culture undergo anonymous peer review by at least two experts in the field of critical adoption studies.
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Editorial Board
Lori J. Askeland
Department of English, Wittenberg University, US
Karen Balcom
History and Women’s Studies, McMaster University, Canada
Susan Bordo
English, Gender and Women’s Studies, emerita, University of Kentucky, US
Cynthia Callahan
English, The Ohio State University, Mansfield, US
E. Wayne Carp
History, Pacific Lutheran University, US
Alice Diver
School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Sara Dorow
Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada
Kori Graves
History, University of Albany, US
Silke Hackenesch
History, University of Cologne, Germany
Susan Devan Harness
Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, US
Sally Haslanger
Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Ellen Herman
History, University of Oregon, US
Emily Hipchen
Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown University, US
Margaret Homans
English, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, US
Tobias Hübinette
Korean Studies, Multicultural Centre, Sweden
Frances Latchford
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, York University, Canada
Kimberly D. McKee
Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies, Grand Valley State University, US
John McLeod
English, University of Leeds, UK
Claudia Nelson
English, Texas A&M University, US
Marianne Novy
English and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh, emerita, UK
Kim Park Nelson
Ethnic Studies, Winona State University, US
Joyce Maguire Pavao
Psychiatry, emerita, Harvard University, US
Pamela Anne Quiroz
Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Mary L. Shanley
Political Science and Women’s Studies, Vassar College, US
Carol Singley
English, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, US
Rachel Rains Winslow
US History, Westmont College, US
Barbara Yngvesson
Anthropology, Hampshire College, US
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