What is Germinate?
Germinate: Environmental History Review (GEHR)is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and is dedicated to publishing work that explores topics connecting the environmental present with its past.
Germinate believes in making research more publicly available and accessible, which fosters a more extensive worldwide exchange of ideas and information.
Who is Germinate?
Editorial Team:
Onur Inal (Editor-in-Chief) is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna. His research interests center on environmental history, the history of technology, and human-animal encounters, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir and several other edited collections.
Ramya Swayamprakash (Associate Editor) is a transnational and interdisciplinary environmental scholar with research interests in rivers, infrastructure, borders, and digital humanities in both North American and South Asia. Ramya’s research has been published in academic and public-facing avenues, and she is an assistant professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Kerri Arsenault (Associate Editor) is the author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, Director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio, adviser at the New School of the Anthropocene, and her work has been published in the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Paris Review, and the Boston Globe.
Editorial Board:
Aditya Ramesh (University of Washington)
Andrew Robichaud (Boston University)
Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich)
Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University)
Mary E. Mendoza (Penn State University)
Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University)
Sarah S. Elkind (San Diego State University)
When is Germinate?
Germinate: Environmental History Review is published continuously throughout the year. Submissions are accepted quarterly. Pieces submitted before quarterly deadlines (31 March, 31 July, 31 October, 31 December) will be published over the course of the next quarter, given the peer-review process.
How to submit to Germinate?
For more information on the submission process, author guidelines, editorial policies, publication schedule, and more, please visit https://g-ehr.com/about
If you have questions unanswered by the GEHR website, please contact the Editors at g-ehr@aseh.org
Germinate is committed to inclusivity, diversity, and open to queries, conversations, and controversy, welcoming different perspectives and voices.
