CFP for "Star Wars and History"
The editors of a forthcoming collection, “Star Wars and History,” invite proposals for an essay that would compare criminality, smuggling, and governance on the frontier in the British Atlantic world---but possibly also in other historical contexts---with smuggling and governance on the frontier in Star Wars. We are seeking a historian who could write about bounty hunters, criminality, piracy, and civil order in an amoral world in Star Wars and compare that to the obvious real historical parallels that Lucas had in mind when he created his imagined world, characters, and institutions. This anthology is aimed at a somewhat broader audience than is the case with most scholarly anthologies, and we seek contributors who can create
essays that are engaging and accessible for undergraduate as well as older readers. Essays should run between 5,000-7,000 words, and complete drafts would be due no later than December 1, 2011.
Contributors would be paid honoraria of $400, and could use almost any photos, stills, etc. from the Star Wars corpus to illustrate their chapters that they chose.
Please submit a short c.v. and one-page proposal by August 1st to both volume editors; email submissions are preferred:
Dr. Nancy Reagin
Professor of History
Pace University, New York
Dr. Janice Liedl
Assoc. Professor of History
Laurentian University, Sudbury
