Professionalizing Genealogy and Genealogical Research
A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2017) | Viewed by 11017
Special Issue Editor
2. Academician, Académie Internationale de Généalogie, 75000 Paris, France
Interests: Scottish genealogy; Scottish heraldry; palaeography; 17th and 18th century documents; genetic genealogy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Genealogy invites scholarly articles and essays on the topic, “Professionalizing Genealogy and Genealogical Research”. The goal of the Special Issue is to examine the impact of high-level educational and professional qualifications on the field of professional genealogy, and implications for genealogical research. At the forefront of this issue is the need for highlighting where genealogy sits as a professional discipline, as an academic subject and as an interdisciplinary research process. Contributors are asked to explain how and/or where genealogy education and praxis intersect, and the impact this might have on professionalising the field. The editorial team hopes to include a wide spectrum of disciplines and sub-disciplines and invites contributions that strengthen and broaden the framework for genealogy studies. Some potential authors with specific areas of focus have already been invited notably:
- American emigrant returners to Scotland
- DNA and Genetic Genealogy from Citizen Science to Cutting Edge
- Evidence in genealogy from the legal/forensic standpoint
- Oral History to Documented Genealogy
- Proof Standards in Genealogy
Other submissions might include the following, although further ideas around the overall theme are welcome and encouraged:
- Certification vs. Qualification
- The impact and intersections of (e.g.) narrative theory, anthropology, ethnography, communications studies, psychology and sociology
- Theoretical/epistemological framework of professional genealogy.
Author Fees do not apply to submissions made and accepted in 2017.
Dr. Bruce Durie
Guest Editor
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