By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

The new Mormon Studies e-journal, Archipelago, is now making a call for papers. Go to: http://www.archipelago-journal.org for further information and contact details. Notice the cool, electronic interface. If you’re interested in contributing to Archipelago, you’ll have to register. Thanks to J. Stapley for his technical nous.

We hope to be a bloggernacle-friendly journal and actively solicit your support. Please spread the word.

Our rough intentions:

1. To offer quality, peer-reviewed, faithful scholarship on a wide-range of Mormon issues.
2. To provide a forum for discussing journal articles.
3. To be friendly to junior scholars, and those just beginning to publish in Mormon Studies.

#1 is a given. #2-3 are, we hope, what will particularly set Archipelago apart, plus, of course, our bloggernacle relationships.

We hope to solicit four types of work: research papers, book reviews, brief notes, and research reviews (a sketch of current scholarship on a given issue). We welcome your contributions. First publication is tentatively set for the end of this year/beginning of next.

FYI, here is our motley band of editors:

Editor-in-chief: Ronan J. Head, MPhil (Near Eastern Studies)

Editorial Board

David Allred, PhD (English)
John Crawford, ABD (Near Eastern Studies)
Blaine Evanson, JD (2006), (Law)
John Fowles, JD (Law)
Benjamin Jordan, PhD (Geology)
Nate Oman, JD, (Law)
Melissa Proctor, ABD (Religious Studies)
Julie M. Smith, MA (New Testament)
Steve Taysom, ABD (Religious Studies)
Robert Wilkey, JD (Law)*
Kris Wright, MA (History)

We have also been offered the support of: HL Rogers, Jim Faulconer, Ben Huff, and Ryan Cragun.
Thank-you, everyone.
(*Robert, your email is bouncing)