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Dear Readers of, Contributors to, Supporters of, and Fans of the JLA,</div>
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The leadership of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology was informed by the AAA that the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology will remain in the AAA’s publishing portfolio going forward. This comes after a long, complicated, and, at times, challenging process
as the AAA began to plan for its next publishing contract once the current one with Wiley runs out in a couple years. The JLA will be one of only six journals to remain in the AAA’s portfolio. Other journals will forge new paths outside of the AAA portfolio,
which will require ingenuity, hard work, and much effort. We wish them luck and success and appreciate the many conversations we had with section leaders and journal editors as we all negotiated this important process.</div>
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The SLA wants to thank everyone who was part of our own community’s process of figuring out what would be best for our journal. Many of you weighed in with ideas and heartfelt convictions about the value of the journal for our field, all of which we appreciate.
Your contributions were vital in composing the Request for Publication document that we were able to craft and submit to the AAA last fall, arguing for the value of the JLA to the AAA’s portfolio and to the AAA more broadly. We’d especially like to thank the
ad hoc committee who did this work: Summerson Carr, Anna Babel, Chaise La Dousa, and Keith Murphy. I was also part of that committee and was continually impressed by the energy, commitment, and intellectual vigor that everyone brought to the task.</div>
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Anna Babel remains the JLA’s amazing, locked-in editor-in-chief, and we are indebted to the hard, generative, and inspirational work she and her team put into the JLA every day. Without it, we could not have gotten to this point. Thank you, Anna.</div>
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So, keep reading, reviewing for, submitting to, citing, teaching with, and generally supporting the JLA! The academic publishing landscape remains challenging, but the JLA is well-positioned as we move forward.</div>
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Jillian Cavanaugh, President of the SLA </div>
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Department of Anthropology<br>
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY<br>
2900 Bedford Ave.<br>
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(718)951-5000 ex. 3803<br>
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