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2023 Call for Editorial Board Members and Consulting Editors

Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work is currently seeking new Editorial Board Members and Consulting Editors. Ideal candidates will have an established record of feminist scholarship, leadership, and activism. Affilia publishes research utilizing a broad range of qualitative, interpretive, and quantitative methodologies and diverse conceptual and theoretical frameworks. Particularly welcome are applications from scholars engaged in postcolonial, Indigenous, intersectional, and critical work, and with robust knowledge of current feminist tensions and complexities, neoliberalism, abolitionism, immigration, and pedagogies of liberation.

Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work is a living record of feminist social work. The journal’s mission is to give voice to the myriad ways that feminist praxis manifests in social work. As such, realization of its mission to provide an alternative space necessarily shifts as the ideas and ideals underpinning feminist praxis, and its manifestation in social work, change over time. Consideration of whose voices and perspectives  – what identities, from which social, geographical, and theoretical locations – are and should be included in Affilia is, therefore, the subject of ongoing review, reexamination, and renewal. Affilia’s Editorial Board Members and Consulting Editors embrace a reflexive praxis that fosters critical exploration of taken-for-granted views and assumptions.

The Editorial Board is comprised of experienced feminist scholars reflecting the diversity of social work feminisms who can make studied judgments about manuscripts, provide helpful comments for authors, encourage emerging and established feminist scholars, and serve as ambassadors for the journal. In addition, Editorial Board members collaborate with the Editors-in-Chief also known as the Editorial Leadership Team, Associate Editors, Editorial Assistant, and the Corporate Board (Women and Social Work, Inc.) to guide the vision and direction of the journal, maintain its processes, and promote its mission as an interdisciplinary international journal centered in feminist social work. Editorial Board Members: 

  • Serve a 3-year term, with possible renewal for a second term;
  • Review 8-12 manuscripts per year (some of these may be revised versions of manuscripts); may be adjusted as necessary;
  • Attend two semi-annual Board retreats in April/May and January; the January meeting is virtual, the April/May meeting will be in-person (pending prohibitive conditions);
  • Attend optional Editorial Board monthly meetings, 75 minutes/month; non-mandatory, but participation strongly encouraged; 
  • Participate in at least one subcommittee: Awards, Board Recruitment, Publicity, Governance, Special Topics;
  • Contribute to board governance and support the journal’s planning and management;
  • Raise the journal’s profile by promoting the journal within their professional networks  through sharing articles and encouraging manuscript submissions; and
  • Demonstrate commitment to critical feminist principles, practice, and scholarship. 

Consulting Editors work directly with the Editorial Leadership Team in reviewing manuscripts for publication and: 

  • Serve a 3-year term; 
  • Review 6-8 manuscripts per year (some of these will be revised versions of manuscripts); and 
  • Raise the journal’s profile by promoting the journal within their professional networks  through sharing articles and encouraging manuscript submissions.

To apply: If you are interested in joining Affilia as an Editorial Board Member or as a Consulting Editor, please send a letter of interest (addressing the points detailed below), your CV, and a pdf of an article that reflects your critical feminist scholarship via email to [email protected] by October 15, 2023. Applicants will be contacted by the end of January 2024. Anticipated start is April/May 2024. 

Your letter of interest should include the following: 

  1. Indicate whether you are applying to be an Editorial Board member or a Consulting Editor (or both, if you would be willing to work in either capacity). 
  2. Explain why you are interested in serving on Affilia’s Editorial Board and/or as a Consulting Editor. How do your lived experiences inform your interest? What would you like to contribute to the journal? 
  3. Describe what makes your work feminist. Please be specific. 
  4. Illustrate specific areas of substantive and methodological expertise you would draw upon when reviewing manuscripts, in addition to your experience reviewing manuscripts. (This will help with identifying areas that are needed for manuscript review.) 
  5. Explain why you have chosen the specific piece of work that you have shared with our committee  as an exemplar of your critical feminist scholarship. 
  6. Provide any other helpful information. 

*New Editorial Board members should plan to attend the annual meeting in April/May 2024. 

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