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Call for Essays Indigenous Americas Fall 2026

MAYA AMERICA VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1

“PERSPECTIVES ON THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE” Send essays for initial review before NOVEMBER 1, 2025. Final essays due March 15, 2026.

Maya America publishes in English and Spanish. Indigenous languages are welcome if translations are included. Given this issue’s broad regional and topical coverage, potential authors are encouraged to send letters of intent to the editors in advance.

Indigenous Peoples in the Americas have faced enumerable challenges since first confronted with European imperialism in the 15th century. Communities have persisted, maintaining idenity and cultural practices in the face of intense assimilatory pressures. For this special issue of Maya America, we are soliciting topics related to the Indigenous Americas, such as language policy, linguistic shift, climate change, resistance to governments, economic challenges, and perspectives on education, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. Essays that have global themes or themes of world history are welcome as well.

Examples of Questions that Could be Addressed:

Are nations succeeding or failing in recognizing rights and equity? How should we understand current trends in the representation of indigenous peoples in popular media—e.g., television, film, music?

How successful are academic fields such as Anthropology and History in overcoming the concept of “researcher” and “subject”?

How successfully are the indigenous languages of the Americas represented in classrooms?

Is “indigenous” a word or concept that needs to be questioned or replaced?

Do topics common in historical studies, such as “church and state” and “settler colonialism” continue as local and global themes today?

Editors: Chad Howe chowe@uga.edu and Alan LeBaron alebaron@kennesaw.edu