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Adoption & Culture

Edited by Emily Hipchen, Brown University

Frequency: Semiannual

Print ISSN: 1944-4990
Electronic ISSN: 2574-2523

CALL FOR PAPERS: new and original essays that expressly examine perspectives related to first/natal/surrendering mothers in domestic, customary, interracial, and transnational adoption in closed, semi-open, or open systems.

More information here.

Winner of the 2019 Phoenix Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (Read the press release)          

Aims and Scope: 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. Adoption & Culture accepts submissions of previously unpublished essays for review.

Adoption & Culture is the journal of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (facebook page), which officially formed, through a constitution established in 1998, under the name The Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship. ASAC promotes understanding of the experience, institution, and cultural representation of domestic and transnational adoption and related practices such as fostering, assisted reproduction, LGBTQ+ families, and innovative kinship formations. ASAC considers adoptive kinship to include adoptees, first families, and adoptive kin. In its conferences, other gatherings, and publications, ASAC provides a forum for discussion and knowledge creation about adoption and related topics through interdisciplinary, culture-based scholarly study and creative practice that consider many ways of perceiving, interpreting, and understanding adoption.

Critical adoption studies scholarship explores multiple aspects of adoption’s intersection with culture including, but not limited to, scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, and film. Adoption scholars examine discourses of adoption in all its various ways, complicating the ways adoption engages with normative ideologies of identity, family, culture, race, gender, nation, and citizenship.

Subscription to the journal confers membership in the Alliance. 

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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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