The HRC Graphic Narratives Lab is seeking three undergraduate student fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fellowships are open to any major, and will last through the fall and spring semesters. Fellows will propose a project plan, either in the creation (i.e comic strip, zine), writing (writing a script for a comic or zine), and/or scholarship of comics (i.e. an essay discussing a topic/theme within the comics genre). Fellows will be mentored by a lab co-director, and in addition to working on their projects throughout the year, will also meet once a month as a group to talk about their progress, and will organize an event once a semester to present their projects to the campus community. A stipend of $1000 will be awarded to each fellow.

Fellows will also be expected to participate in and support events put on by the HRC Graphic Narratives Lab, and encouraged to attend other events at the HRC during their fellowship. If you’re interested, please submit your proposal using the form below.

Please visit the fellowship page to apply for more information.

Journals & Academic Publications

African American Review

From the publication's site:

African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison. The official publication of LLC African American of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies

From the Journal's page:

Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies is a trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the world. Since our inception in 1987, we have provided an international forum for diverse scholars to advance a host of perspectives and theoretical paradigms relevant to the social, political, economic and cultural issues that impact the African world community. Thus, the goal of the journal is to build a transnational community of scholars, theorists and practitioners who can ask questions and pose solutions to contemporary and historical issues, based upon an affirmative African centered logic and discourse of liberation.

The Black History Bulletin

From the Bulletin's page:

The Black History Bulletin is dedicated to enhancing teaching and learning in the areas of history. Its aim is to publish, generate, and disseminate peer-reviewed information about African Americans in U. S. history, the African Diaspora generally, and the peoples of Africa. Its purpose is to inform the knowledge base for the professional praxis of secondary educators through articles that are grounded in theory, yet supported by practice. The Black History Bulletin welcomes articles on all aspects of Black history, especially those written with a focus on:

(1) middle school U.S. history; (2) high school U.S. history; (3) teacher preparation U.S. history methods.

Black Camera

From the site's about page:

Black Camera, a journal of Black film studies, is devoted to the study and documentation of the Black cinematic experience and aims to engender and sustain a formal academic discussion of Black film production. We include reviews of historical as well as contemporary books and films, researched critiques of recent scholarship on Black film, interviews with accomplished film professionals, and editorials on the development of Black creative culture. Black Camera challenges received and established views and assumptions about the traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new and longstanding cinematic formations are in play. Issues and special sections are devoted to national cinemas, as well as independent, marginal, or oppositional films and cinematic formations.

Black Perspectives

From the publication's site:

African American intellectual history is a growing and thriving subfield and we believe that the AAIHS and its blog, Black Perspectives, can play a role in fostering that growth for years to come. We are open to scholars in all disciplines, including but not limited to African American history, literature, philosophy, art, dance, and film. We also welcome scholars working on the African Diaspora.

The Black Scholar

From the site's about page:

Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, THE BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is the first modern Black studies and research journal and is currently the leading such journal in the United States. Founded on the premise that Black writers, scholars, activists and artists could participate in dialogue within its pages, TBS‘s primary mission has been to chronicle, analyze, and debate the conditions and the emancipatory efforts of Black people, across class, nationality, gender, generation, sexuality, and ideology.

Callaloo

From the publication's site:

The journal publishes original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. Callaloo offers an engaging mixture of fiction, poetry, critical articles, interviews, drama, and visual art. Frequently annotated bibliographies, special issues dedicated to prominent writers and literary, social, and cultural themes, and full-color, original artwork and photography are some features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters.

Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies

From the Journal's page:

Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies is ASALH’s 21^st century answer to contemporary publishing trends. It is the only interdisciplinary multimedia journal of the field of Black Studies. While its primary purpose is to promote scholarship that supports the field, its unique contribution is that it provides a publication venue for scholars to use digital media evidence to advance their theories and interpretations of the Black experience by using the interactive capabilities of digital media technologies. The journal is currently made available through JSTOR.

International Journal of Africana Studies

From the NCBS site:

The International Journal of Africana Studies is published Biannually by the National Council for Black Studies in Cooperation with Alabama State University.

Journal of African American History

From the Journal's page:

Founded in 1916 as The Journal of Negro History by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Journal of African American History (JAAH) is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history. Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), JAAH publishes original scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the African American experience.

Journal of Black Studies

From the Sage site:

For the last half-century, the Journal of Black Studies has been the leading source for dynamic, innovative, and creative research on the Black experience. Poised to remain at the forefront of the recent explosive growth in quality scholarship in the field of Black studies, the Journal of Black Studies is published eight times per year. This means a greater number of important and intellectually provocative articles exploring key issues facing African Americans and Blacks can now be given voice.

The scholarship published by the Journal of Black Studies covers a wide range of subject areas, including: Society and Social Issues * Afrocentricity * Economics * Culture * Media * Colonialism and Decolonization * Literature * Language * Heritage * Biology.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Melus

From the site's about page:

First published in 1974, MELUS features articles, interviews, and reviews encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of American literature past and present. Most issues are thematically organized for greater understanding of topics, criticism, and theory in the total picture of American literature MELUS hopes to present.

Souls

From the site's about page:

Souls is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal founded in 1999 and published by Taylor & Francis. It is housed in the Department of African American Studies of the University of Illinois at Chicago and edited by historian and activist Barbara Ransby.

The journal was inspired by two academic publication projects initiated by W. E. B. Du Bois: The Atlanta University Series of annual research readers published in the late 19th-early 20th century; and Phylon journal, founded by Du Bois at Atlanta University in 1940. Its strategic objective is to use Du Boisian social and political theory as a starting point for examining the radical potential of the field of African-American Studies. The journal explores the intellectual debates that are central to the work of scholars and activists, challenging our understanding of history, politics, social theory, and culture in ways that create new possibilities for a democratic praxis and pursuit of social justice.

Please visit the publications' pages for more information.