Editorial Commentary

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Editorial| April 01 2022 Editorial Commentary: The Politics and Praxis of Peer Review in Art History Publishing: Challenges, Ethics, and Reform Charlene Villaseñor Black, Charlene Villaseñor Black Charlene Villaseñor Black is professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at UCLA. She authored Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire (Princeton UP, 2006) and edited Tradition and Transformation: Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s (U of Washington P, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Anna Indych-López Anna Indych-López Anna Indych-López is professor of Latin American and Latinx art at The Graduate Center and The City College at CUNY. She authored Judith F. Baca (U of Minnesota P, 2018) and Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940 (U of Pittsburgh P, 2009). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2022) 4 (2): 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2022.4.2.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Charlene Villaseñor Black, Anna Indych-López; Editorial Commentary: The Politics and Praxis of Peer Review in Art History Publishing: Challenges, Ethics, and Reform. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2022; 4 (2): 3–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2022.4.2.3 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search Peer review, the anonymous evaluation of our research by equals in our field, is fundamental to scholarly publishing. It can help assess the soundness of new research, arguments, critical frameworks, and methodologies. Peer review also forms the foundation of deliberations regarding tenure and promotion for academics in the United States. Thus, peer review represents one of the most critical aspects of one’s career in academia and the future of our field as a whole. This coauthored commentary assesses the politics and praxis of peer review from the point of view of Latin American and Latinx visual culture studies. How have traditional reviewing practices affected our fields in the past, and how can we improve the process of peer review going forward? Looking at this issue from our viewpoint as specialists in Latin American and Latinx art provides a unique and illuminating vista, one that has the potential to have an... You do not currently have access to this content.