Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

421 St. Augustine Center
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19085

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The Journal of South Asian and Middle Easter Studies (JSAMES) invites scholarship that engages with country studies (e.g. Damascene notables during the French Mandate) and cross-border studies (e.g. Leftist political networks in Pakistan, Syria, and Lebanon in the 1970s).

The journal will present scholarship covering the mid-19th century to the present to inquire into the multi-scalar interconnections that bring together South Asia and the Middle East. The JSAMES seeks to cultivate scholarship that covers a wide range of intellectual, cultural, social, political, and economic approaches to the study of the macro-region’s history. The editorial board is thus interested in scholarship that embraces trends in historical research that emphasize comparative and transnational perspectives that may not find affinity with area studies journals committed to either single country or regionally specific scholarship.

The JSAMES will encourage submissions drawing on a range of methods and archives that promote diverse ways of thinking historically, including official and non-state archives, cultural texts and materials, oral histories, and private collections. The JSAMES will also encourage interdisciplinary scholarship grounded in multi-sited and multi-lingual approaches to understanding the contemporaneous world. In doing so, the journal will highlight how the macro-regional scale creates new meanings around politics, identity, and belonging that shape the subjectivities of individuals and collectives.

The journal will publish scholarship that animates the formations, circuits, circulations, and inter-connections that contribute to varying forms of region-making in South Asia and the Middle East. Furthermore, authors and readers can expect to engage with rigorous scholarship through the journal content such as:

• research articles (between 6,000 and 8,000 words)
• forums (approximately 4,000 words per article; submissions by invitation)
• book reviews (1,500 words)
• ‘al-Maydan,’ a special section which offers think pieces, Q&As, and archival/field notes from scholars in the region. (between 2,000 and 4,000 words)

Submission Guidelines

A new submission system will launch in summer 2025. In the meantime, please send submissions to jsames@villanova.edu. Kindly include a brief three-to-six-line autobiography.

The journal accepts submissions from individuals in any part of the world. Research articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words and in Times New Roman size 12 font, double-spaced, with footnotes and must follow the Chicago Manual of Style. The Journal is published in English; articles written in other languages will not be considered. Submission of an article will be taken to imply that it has not been previously published and is not on offer to any other publisher.

Editorial Team

Editor: Samer Abboud, PhD, Villanova University

Editor Emeritus: Kail Ellis, OSA, PhD, Villanova University

Editorial Board

Michael Bishku, PhD, Augusta University

Zaynab el-Bernoussi, PhD, The Africa Institute

Esmat Elhalaby, PhD, University of Toronto

Anusha Hariharan, PhD, Villanova University

Wilson Jacob, PhD, Concordia University

Hafsa Kanjwal, PhD, Lafayette College

Arang Keshavarzian, PhD, New York University

Elizabeth Kolsky, Phd, Villanova University

Ameem Lutfi, PhD, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Golnar Nikpour, PhD, Dartmouth College

Ada Petiwala, PhD, The American University of Beirut

Zainab Saleh, PhD, Haverford College

Saliba Sarsar, PhD, Monmouth University

Sonal Sharma, PhD, Tufts University

Adeem Suhail, PhD, Franklin and Marshall

Andrea Wright, PhD, William and Mary

Individuals
Print-only: $45

Institutions
Online-only: $130
Print-only: $150
Online + Print: $200

Starting June 1, 2025, the University of Pennsylvania Press manages subscription fulfillment for the JSAMES. Please send claims, orders, and inquiries to journals@pobox.upenn.edu.