Public Humanities invites proposals for guest-edited issues that seek to use humanities knowledge to address key social questions or topics of contemporary public relevance. Guest Editors should complete a Proposal Form in the first instance, detailing the title, description of the proposed topic, publication timeline, potential authors and invited articles, and a brief bibliography.

Proposal assessment process
Each Issue Proposal will be assessed by the Editors-in-Chief and the Editors – together the ‘Editorial Collective’ – for fit, timeliness, originality, diversity of perspective and relevance. It is particularly encouraged that the proposed list of authors and themes includes scholarship under-represented in academia.

Upon acceptance of an issue, the Guest Editor(s) will be issued a contract from the Press, and asked to draw up a ‘Call for Papers’ (CFP) adhering to our standard CFP template, detailing the criteria against which submissions will be assessed. CFPs for issues in progress are advertised through the Public Humanities website.

Peer review
All articles submitted to an issue will be subject to the rigorous peer review process operated by the journal. Guest Editors will recommend Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision or Reject decisions, with all final decisions being made by the handling Editor-in-Chief. The handling Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject any paper regardless of the Guest Editor’s recommendation, and has full oversight and approval of the peer review process from submission to final decision.

Publication process and article types available
Articles appear online within their issue incrementally as soon as they are ready for publication.

To represent the diversity of humanities research, Guest Editors and authors have the freedom to select the article formats best suited to their themes:

TYPE	DESCRIPTION
Article	Presents original research findings
Brief Report	Presents empirical data
Case Study	Narrates and analyzes a single example
Editorial	Introduces Themed Issues — written by the Guest Editors of Themed Issues only
Policy Brief	Summarizes a public policy proposal
Roundtable	Presents multiple perspectives on a topic

All issues will publish with an Editorial written by the Guest Editor(s). 

* All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.