The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of Multimedia Review Editor for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). The Multimedia Review Editor will serve a three-year term for twelve quarterly issues, from the March 2025 to the December 2027 issues.
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a quarterly, blind-peer reviewed international journal devoted to all aspects of the history of the global built environment and spatial practice, including architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and city planning. Published since 1941, JSAH has defined the field of architectural history, and is a pioneer in digital publication. Articles published in JSAH are historically rigorous, conceptually sophisticated, and theoretically innovative.
SAH seeks a JSAH Multimedia Review Editor who will embrace a broad view of architectural history as described above. Candidates should be scholars of the history of the built environment with stature in the field and experience in editing book, exhibition, and/or multimedia reviews; institutional affiliation is not required. Candidates should be published authors of at least one peer-reviewed book.
SAH seeks to foster a culture where candidates from all backgrounds and identities feel welcome and can thrive. We encourage candidates from underrepresented and marginalized groups to self-identify in their application materials. SAH seeks applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives and to conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access.
The JSAH Multimedia Review Editor commissions and edits reviews of materials and topics related to media (e.g., film, video, television, websites, blogs, apps, games) that merit coverage in JSAH. The Review Editor commissions between two and four reviews per issue and is expected to serve the three-year term in its entirety.
Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome.
Required Application Materials:
With each nomination, please send the nominee’s name and full contact information, a 500-word statement describing qualifications for appointment, a CV, and the name and full contact information of at least one reference through the SAH Online Portal.
For full consideration, please send your nominations via PDF by June 30, 2024 to info@sah.org.
Candidates will be reviewed by a SAH-appointed selection committee. The new Multimedia Editor will ideally commission their first reviews in summer 2024 in time for publication in the March 2025 issue of JSAH.
This is a volunteer position. Although no remuneration is involved, the Editor’s name, institution and contact information will be published in each issue of JSAH in print and online, as well as on the JSAH page of the SAH website. Because JSAH is one of the leading English-language journals that focuses on the history of the built environment, the position of JSAH Multimedia Review Editor constitutes valuable service to the discipline for promotion and tenure.
The responsibilities of Multimedia Review Editor s include the following:
Selecting recently multimedia sites or related materials for written reviews.
Identifying qualified subject experts and recruiting them to write a review on a single multimedia project or 2–3 projects on the related topics.
Reviewing submissions for accuracy, biases, and content, and revising as necessary with authors. Reviews are then cleared by the JSAH Editor before final copy editing by JSAH staff.
The time commitment for the JSAH Multimedia Review Editor is estimated to be 5–10 hours per week, on average. The editor should plan to work on reviews for three issues of JSAH simultaneously, in different stages of review or completion.
