"How to Write Successful Journal Articles”

Date

Mon April 29th 2019, 12:30pm

Location

Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 51A (Colloquium Room)

Presenter: Niko Besnier

Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam and Editor-in-Chief, American Ethnologist

Submitting article manuscripts to journals is a process shrouded in mystery, which early-career scholars in particular find daunting. This workshop aims to dispel some of this mystery. It focuses on how to choose an appropriate journal for one’s work, how to develop an abstract, and how to avoid common pitfalls in motivating one’s work and presenting its contribution to broad anthropological questions.