Feminist Futures of Peer Review

Event held September 25, 2023.

Speakers: Cathy Hannabach (Ideas on Fire), Josen Masangkay Diaz (University of San Diego), April D.J. Petillo (Northern Arizona University), Dolores Inés Casillas (University of California, San Diego)

Peer review and evaluation are at the heart of academia but so often the racially gendered labor of this work is ignored, denied, or compounded.

It’s also no secret that the standard peer review process is in deep crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic’s onslaught of professional and personal demands have dramatically reduced the number of peer reviewers available while click-based publishing models have incentivized more and more output with fewer and fewer resources.

Intersectional feminism has long provided alternative models and futures for peer review though, including approaching review as collective support, making visible the racially gendered labor of reviewing, and using review to signal-boost and deeply engage with the work of marginalized scholars.

Feminist Futures of Peer Review features 4 interdisciplinary feminist scholars sharing how they are navigating peer review in our contemporary moment and collectively building intersectional feminist futures to support engaged research and critical thinking.