Announcing new incoming editor of JHBS
Alexandra Rutherford
Dear Members of Cheiron,
After four years of editing the Cheiron-affiliated “Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences,” I am ready to step down. So many of you support the journal in so many ways, not the least of which is producing the marvelous scholarship we publish and review, as well as serving as reviewers for manuscripts and books. I have enjoyed working with you immensely, and continue to appreciate your impressive and ongoing support of JHBS. Now it gives me GREAT pleasure to announce the new, incoming editor: Dr. Heather Murray.
Dr. Murray is Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. Her most recent book, Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) was named a finalist for the Cheiron book prize in 2023. Her first book, Not in This Family: Gays, Their Parents and the Meanings of Kinship in Postwar America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) won the Lawrence Levine Award for Cultural History from the Organization of American Historians in 2011. Her current book project is called From Anti-Cruelty to Anti-Bullying, an intellectual history of school bullying, violence and cruelty, and attempts to curtail them, in 20th Century America, focusing particularly on perceptions of ‘human nature’ as exhibited in children. She is also at work on a smaller project called “How Do Intellectuals Write About Intellectual Disability?” Her work has appeared in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, among other venues. She also has held several fellowships, among them a residential fellowship at the Erikson Institute for Education, Research and Advocacy, at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
I am thrilled she is taking on this role and excited to see how her editorial direction will shape and extend the journal’s scope and readership.
In terms of the transition, although I will continue to handle manuscripts that are currently in process and remain on the masthead as editor in chief for a bit, but Heather will be receiving all new manuscripts starting July 1st. Ian Davidson will continue his exemplary work as book review editor.
In other news, the upcoming summer issue will be a long-anticipated special issue on Therapeutic Culture guest edited by JHBS editorial board member Remy Amouroux, with Lucie Gerber, Camille Jaccard, and Milana Aronov. We also have a special issue on Women and Pragmatism that will be guest edited by Michela Bella and Francesca Bordogna in the works.
Submissions remain very healthy and I am so pleased that the Perspectives section has attracted some new authors and readers to the journal. The most recent contribution, by Jonathan Sadowsky and Kylie Smith is open access and available here.
Thanks again for all of your support, and a very warm welcome to Heather! Alexandra Rutherford
James Lamiell
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Paul Croce
Thanks, Alexandra, for your good work and congrats to Heather Murray!
Paul
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