The CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the Inaugural Issue is Now Open! Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to open the attachment and view the Call for Submissions.

CO-EDITORS: Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe, University of Minnesota) and Robert Warrior (Osage, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

MARCH 13, 2013: INAUGURAL EDITORIAL BOARD
The NAISA Council and Editors are pleased to announce the Inaugural Editorial Board for our journal, Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Chad Allen
Ohio State University

Kim Anderson
Wilfrid Laurier University

Kathleen Brown-Perez
University of Massachusetts

Luis Carcamo-Huechante
University of Texas

Chad Hamill
Northern Arizona University

Jolan Hsieh
National Dong Hwa University

Suzi Hutchings
University of Adelaide

Kelly McDonough
University of Texas

May-Britt Ohman
Uppsala University

Mwalim Peters
Bridgewater State University

Jacki Thompson Rand
University of Iowa

Phillip Round
University of Iowa

Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
Syracuse University

Noenoe Silva
University of Hawai’i, Manoa

Alice TePunga Somerville
University of Hawai’i, Manoa

Coll Thrush
University of British Columbia

Maggie Walter
University of Tasmania

JOURNAL DESCRIPTION
NAIS will be published twice a year by the University of Minnesota Press, and has as its mandate a focus on publishing the best interdisciplinary scholarship in international Native American and Indigenous Studies. It will draw on the extraordinary professional expertise of our ever-expanding membership, and will provide an intellectually rigorous and ethically engaged forum for smart, provocative, and exciting scholarship in the field. It will provide a forum for different kinds of research, intellectual traditions, and knowledge practices to be placed in conversation, where we can extend our understandings across disciplinary and epistemological boundaries and learn more about the important work going on in scores of different fields and regions.

POLICY OF ELIGIBILITY FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Co-Editors wish to encourage as many submissions as possible from NAISA membership and beyond. Anyone wishing to submit is encouraged to do so, including sitting members of any elected NAISA body (such as the Council or Nominations Committee) or members of any appointed body (such as the Editorial Board). The Co-Editors will take great care that any given issue, and each yearly volume (2 issues) will be balanced in authorship and will not over-represent NAISA officers/council/committee members/editorial board members. The occasional guest-edited special theme issue might prove the only rare exception to this policy.

APPOINTMENT OF CO-EDITORS
On December 3, 2012, the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association/NAISA proudly announced the appointment of Professors Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe, University of Minnesota) and Robert Warrior (Osage, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) as the inaugural Co-Editors for the new journal Native American & Indigenous Studies. O’Brien and Warrior bring a wealth of professional experience, intellectual leadership, and substantial institutional resources to the inaugural editorial office for NAIS. The journal will be published by the University of Minnesota Press.

O’Brien and Warrior are leading scholars, authors, and mentors in the fields of Native Studies, and bring experience in program leadership and program development to the journal. In addition to their impressive academic and professional strengths, Professors O’Brien and Warrior distinguished their application with an outstanding suite of institutional resources. Support in the form of office space and Research Assistant positions has been pledged by the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a new journal, NAIS is fortunate to count on the leadership of two extraordinary scholars as well as the support of their respective departments and universities.