EDITORS

P. Sven Arvidson, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies and Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA – arvidson@seattleu.edu

Khadijah O. Miller, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Dean of Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA –  komiller@nsu.edu

ASSOCIATE EDITOR 

Tanya Augsburg, Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Creative Arts, School of Liberal Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA – tanya@sfsu.edu

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Gabriele Bammer, Australian National University, Australia
Tami Carmichael, University of North Dakota, USA
Jennifer J. Dellner, Ocean County College, USA

Pauline Gagnon, University of West Georgia, USA (previous editor)
Maria Goñi Mazzitelli, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Stuart Henry, San Diego State University, USA (previous editor)
Paul Hirsch, State University of New York – Syracuse, USA
Machiel Keestra, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bethany Laursen, University of Michigan and Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC, USA
Michael O’Rourke, Michigan State University, USA
Christian Pohl, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jan Cornelius Schmidt, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, Canada (previous editor)
Heidi Upton, St. John’s University, USA
Bianca Vienni Baptista, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Evan Widders, West Virginia University, USA (ex officio)

PREVIOUS EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Stanley Bailis, San Francisco State University, USA (previous editor)
Guy Beckwith, Auburn University, USA
Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University, USA (previous editor)
Catherine Lyall, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Raymond Miller, San Francisco State University, USA (previous editor)
William H. Newell, Miami University, USA (previous editor)
Roslyn Abt Schindler, Wayne State University, USA (previous editor)
Gretchen Schulz, Emory University, USA (previous editor)

Marcia Bundy Seabury, University of Hartford, USA
Ria van der Lecq, Utrecht University, Netherlands

James Welch, Independent Scholar, USA

Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies (ISSN 1081-4760)

Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, seeks papers on topics that will advance the wide-ranging mission of the Association. In general, the Association:

• Promotes the interchange of ideas among a diverse community of scholars, teachers, administrators, and the public regarding interdisciplinarity and integration;
• Advocates best-practice techniques for interdisciplinary teaching;
• Advocates best-practice techniques for interdisciplinary research;
• Advances the exploration of key terms and seeks out new theoretical models that further the understanding of interdisciplinarity and integration;
• Sustains the development of real-world applications of interdisciplinarity and integration;
• Encourages explorations of the relationships between interdisciplinary theory and practice;
• Encourages high quality interdisciplinary curriculum development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels;
• Sponsors the development of standards for interdisciplinary program accreditation;
• Offers best-practice methods for assessing interdisciplinary programs and coursework;
• Encourages the development of administrative structures, personnel policies, and financial models in higher education that support interdisciplinary teaching and research;
• Promotes the scholarship of interdisciplinary and integrative teaching and learning;
• Supports the development of strategies for strengthening the role of interdisciplinarity and integration within (and beyond) the Academy;
• Documents the importance of interdisciplinary and integrative studies for higher education and society in general.

Prospective authors should e-mail their papers as attachments in Microsoft Word to Sven Arvidson, copying Khadijah Miller, at the email addresses below. The manuscripts should be double-spaced, conform to current APA style, and include an abstract and keywords. Photographs, illustrations, and other graphics should be attached separately. To ensure anonymity during the refereeing process manuscripts should bear only the title as a means of identification. Contributors should send cover letters giving titles, author names, affiliations, brief biographical notes to be included in the article, full mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.

Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies has adopted the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) position statement on “Authorship and AI Tools,” available at https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author: 

“The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organisations, such as WAME (https://wame.org/page3.php?id=106) and the JAMA Network (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801170) among others, to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper. AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.”

Editors

P. Sven Arvidson, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies and Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA – arvidson@seattleu.edu

Khadijah O. Miller, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Dean of Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA –  komiller@nsu.edu