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We seek editors who are actively engaged in producing and disseminating diversity research and scholarship to a public audience. Spark editorial board members must adopt our social justice centric editorial board values to learn from and collaborate with our writers through an open-review process.
Given the timeliness of our publications (our production cycles take about 6-months), editors must be available to carry out the following responsibilities:
- Provide an open-review for 4-6 essays throughout the 2-year term, following Spark review guidelines to offer constructive and developmental feedback that will lead to more publicly accessible essays.
- Attend 6 board meetings throughout the 2-year term with fellow editors that represent various academic disciplines and institutions.
- Support in advancing the publications reach and impact efforts by disseminating to a broad readership.
- Provide feedback on the infrastructure and future of the publication.
As part of the editorial board you may be invited to curate and lead a series. This includes developing a theme, reviewing and selecting pitches, and preparing for publication. Editorial board members are tenured, tenure-track, clinical and research faculty (including lecturers), research staff, or postdoctoral fellows.
Apply by April 24, 2023
Term & Compensation
Board members serve for two years (August 2023–August 2025) and receive a $1,200 stipend in two payments. University of Michigan faculty receive a research fund transfer instead of a stipend.
Authors must have previously produced scholarship or creative work directly related to the topic to ground the proposed essay. Priority selection will be given to members of the Diversity Scholars Network and those who co-author with graduate students. Invited contributors will receive writing guidelines to submit a first draft within 4–6 weeks of being accepted and will be assigned an editor.
The series will be curated by Charles H.F. Davis III, assistant professor in the Center for Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan; founder and director of the Campus Abolition Research Lab.
If you have any questions about the Pop-Up Writing Opportunity and submission process, please contact Spark managing editor, Laura Sanchez-Parkinson at [email protected].