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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are seeking articles for
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">all four
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">issues of the 2026 Society for Linguistic Anthropology section column of
<i>Anthropology News</i>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The journal is now published exclusively online. Although last year pieces had to be connected to the journal issue’s theme, that is no longer the case. So please send
us your ideas for short, public-facing, and accessible essays that are tied to linguistic anthropology. Pieces can be either stories or photo essays:</span></p>
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Stories—short-form exploration of an interesting topic with detail and depth, up to 1600 words. To get a better sense of the genre, you can see a recent story in the SLA column by Aidah Aljuran
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/learning-not-to-know-and-the-isma%CA%BFili-invisibility-of-taqiyya/" data-outlook-id="2eb3450d-6ad2-4bdb-87b4-b1f0f65c9327" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">here</a></span>.</p>
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Photo essays—six to eight high-quality, visually compelling images + up to 750 words of introductory text. For a great example of a photo essay, see Judit Kroo’s piece from last year
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/once-and-future-worlds-in-fukushima-japan-postdisaster-as-emptiness-and-remainder/" data-outlook-id="57f639da-c301-450e-8f8c-c71dd567bbfa" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">here</a></span>. </p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have an idea that brings a
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to bear on some topic or event of wide interest, please contact the SLA column co-editors, Siri Lamoureaux (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:lamoureaux@em-lyon.com" data-outlook-id="64c3e627-9398-43b5-9240-05d89f4515b2" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">lamoureaux@em-lyon.com</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
and Courtney Handman (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:chandman@austin.utexas.edu" data-outlook-id="87401437-5f32-4c09-942d-5e4ccdc5956f" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">chandman@austin.utexas.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
with a few sentences about your idea. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Anthropology News</i> is able to publish only one SLA piece per issue, and the deadline for initial editorial review is extended to
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"><u>December 8, 2025</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Depending on the response, we can take proposals for several issues at once, with anticipated 2026 publication dates of March
31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. The texts in full will not be due until about one month prior to publication.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We encourage submissions from both students and faculty who are (or could become) members of the AAA and SLA. We provide strong editorial support as well as quick turn-around
from submission to publication. Reach out to us to see if your idea for a story or photo essay might be a good fit.</span></p>
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