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Sessions

Academic Track

Fred S. Kleiner Paul Siegel Michael Spiegler

Songs of Praise (And Horror): The Journal Reviewing Process

Friday, June 20, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Copper Room

Presenter: Fred S. Kleiner, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Chair of the Art History Department, Boston University
Panelists: Paul Siegel, Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford, and TAA Vice President/President-Elect; Michael D. Spiegler, Professor of Psychology at Providence College

Fred Kleiner will demystify the peer-review process at scholarly journals, based on his experience during three consecutive terms as editor of the flagship journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Journal of Archaeology, founded in 1885 and the largest-circulation scholarly journal of its kind in the world. He will describe the process of evaluating manuscripts submitted to a highly selective journal as well as the editorial process that follows the acceptance of a manuscript (usually after a request for revisions). He will also talk about ways to tilt the chances of acceptance in your favor.

Additional panelists will share stories (both good and bad) about their experiences of the journal reviewing process.

About the Presenters/Panelists:

Fred S. Kleiner is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Art History Department of Boston University, where he has taught since 1978. Prior to that, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia and a postdoctoral fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Kleiner has won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the College Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The author of scores of peer-reviewed monographs and articles on Greek and Roman art, architecture, and numismatics, Kleiner's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is also the author of the 2007 Texty Award-winning A History of Roman Art and co-author of the 2001 Texty and McGuffey Award-winning Art through the Ages. From 1985 to 1998, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.

Paul Siegel has published dozens of law review articles and essays in journals of communication and sociology, and has been associate editor of the Free Speech Yearbook for over twenty years. In this presentation he will recount how a lesson he learned from the very first journal editor to ever publish his work has stood him well in his work as an editor and manuscript reviewer. Said Siegel: "If prodded for a cereal box version of the lesson, it is that we need to take charge of our subject matter, lest we submit glorified note cards rather than essays ready for publication."

Michael D. Spiegler is a Professor of Psychology at Providence College. Throughout his career, he has published empirical research and theoretical articles in a variety of journals in psychology and other related fields—which means that he has had his share of the three Rs: reviews, resubmits, and rejections. He will present some survival tactics for dealing with the three Rs. Michael also knows about the reviewing process from the other side (he's been there and come back alive), having served as a reviewer for a number of journals for many years. He was fortunate to have learned the "trade" of reviewing journal articles by serving for a year as an apprentice to the editor of one of the most prestigious journals in psychology, and he will share the valuable lessons he learned at the time and has continued to practice.