History of Social Science, a new journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), will launch in early 2025 and is now accepting submissions!
History of Social Science offers an international forum for the examination of the transformations of the social sciences since the early twentieth century. The journal covers a variety of disciplines, from the core social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology, to disciplines with links to natural science, such as anthropology, geography, and psychology, and disciplines closer to the humanities, such as history and philosophy. Related fields, including area studies, business, communication studies, criminology, law, and linguistics, are also included under the journal’s editorial scope. An important editorial commitment of the journal is to solicit and cultivate scholarship on the history of the social sciences throughout the world, as well as work that traces the transnational circulation and mutual shaping of ideas, practices, and personnel. More information can be found on the journal’s website, including Author Guidelines and the Editorial Board.
The journal’s sponsor is the Society for the History of Recent Social Science, which also hosts a small annual conference on the worldwide history of the social sciences in the twentieth century.
Please contact the journal editors at hss@hisress.org with submission inquiries or any other questions.
Jamie Cohen Cole, Philippe Fontaine, and Jeff Pooley
Co-editors, History of Social Science