New Berghahn Book Series; Editors: Karen Hagemann, Isabel Heinemann, Jasper Heinzen,Thomas Kühne, and Elissa Mailänder

Proposals by: –

Wars and Military Violence cannot be understood without the analytical category of ‘gender’. The same is true for the masculine corporate culture of armed forces, and of the sexual violence perpetrated by soldiers and officers, both within and outside the military. The difficult debates about ‘gender-neutral’ military service triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 in several European NATO powers, the still contested involvement of women in combat in an increasing number of armed forces, and the disproportionate number of casualties among women and children in the current wars in Ukraine and Sudan and the Israel-Palestine conflict all make this clear. Therefore, research into the subject of gender, military culture, violence, and war holds not just academic but also social and political importance. The relevance of gender is particularly evident in the current culture wars about diversity, equality, and inclusion, and the efforts of the Republican-led government in the United States to curb the profile of women and LGBTQ+ service members in their armed forces.
Despite a tradition of international and interdisciplinary women’s and gender studies on the military and war dating back to the 1980s, the state of research in various disciplines continues to reveal significant gaps. This new book series initiated by the research network on Military, War and Gender/Diversity seeks to create new opportunities for international and interdisciplinary dialogue by promoting the systematic study of the relationship between gender/diversity, the military, war, and violence as a methodology and subject of research. We understand ‘gender’ as a crucible of intersectional diversity that, in conjunction with social origin, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, sexuality, disability, religion, and ideological orientation shapes individual and collective identities. Gender is therefore of great relevance for the study of armed forces, military conflicts, and (il)legitimate violence, including sexual and sexualized violence.
We invite submissions for monographs and edited volumes from cultural studies, history, international relations, and the social sciences that address the broadly defined subject of gender, violence, and war across a broad chronological arc spanning early modern, modern, and contemporary history. The geographical remit of the series is global.

Submission of Book Proposals
We accept proposals for monographs and anthologies for this new peer-reviewed series.

For proposals we request a
– book proposal (of up to 4,000 words) with a detailed summary that discusses the objectives and structure of the book and its individual chapters
– table of contents
– two-page CV for each author / editor of the book
– completed New Book Outline Form

Please send all your proposal materials to Berghahn Publishers (Editorialus@berghahnbooks.com) and the Series Editors (hagemann@unc.edu)

For more information on the book series, which will commence operations in early 2026, and the New Book Outline Form, click here (https://mkgd.hypotheses.org/berghahn-book-series) or email Prof. Dr Karen Hagemann (hagemann@unc.edu)

Editorial Collective
– Prof. Dr Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States (Speaker of the editorial collective).
– Prof. Dr Isabel Heinemann, Professor of Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian Univ. Munich and Director of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich/Berlin, Germany.
– Dr Jasper Heinzen, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Univ. of York, York, United Kingdom
– Prof. Dr Thomas Kühne, Director, Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust History at Clark Univ., Worcester, MA, United States.
– Prof. Dr Elissa Mailänder, Professor of Contemporary History at Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Editorial Board
– Prof. Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince, Sanderson Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Modern History, Univ. College, Oxford Univ., United Kingdom.
– Prof. Dr Tanja Bührer, Professor of Global History at the Paris Lodron Univ. of Salzburg, Austria.
– Prof. Dr Isabelle Deflers, Professor of Early Modern History at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Vice President for Internationalisation and Diversity at the Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany.
– Prof. Dr Susan Grayzel, Professor of History at the Department of History, Utah State Univ., United States.
– Prof. Dr Michelle Moyd, Associate professor, Michigan State Univ., United States.
– Prof. Dr Susie Protschky, Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
– Prof. Dr Maren Röger, Professor of History of Eastern Europe / East Central Europe at the Univ. of Leipzig; Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Germany.
– Prof. Dr Victoria Sanford, Lehman Professor of Excellence of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College; member of the Anthropology Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center and Advisory Board Member at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, City Univ. of New York, and Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Univ. of Southern California, United States.
– Prof. Dr Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State Univ., United States.

Source: H-War – H-Net network on world military history.