Baylor profs leading national & international academic journals

August 5, 2020 // Posted In Academics, Honors, Research

Drs. Danielle Parrish, Scott Gibson, Dorothy Leidner & Nathan Elkins

No matter your relationship to higher education, there’s a good chance you’re aware of the importance of professors getting published. To be published means a professor’s research appears in a peer-reviewed academic journal, having been approved by a group of peer editors and then distributed to a wider academic audience — thus contributing to the body of knowledge within their field.

Baylor professors have a long record of publishing meaningful research, but their contributions to these journals don’t stop there. Many Baylor professors actually serve as the editors of journals within their field, positions of great importance and influence in their field. As President Livingstone said in a recent email to the Baylor Family, “It’s an opportunity — and great responsibility — to have Baylor’s Christian viewpoint leading the way in pursuit of research excellence that contributes to solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems.”

Here are Baylor faculty currently serving as editors-in-chief, co-editors or editors of a significant portion of journals within their discipline:

ACCOUNTING
* Dr. Laurie Burney, editor, Advances in Management Accounting

ANTHROPOLOGY
* Dr. Michael Muehlenbein, general editor, Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

ART & ART HISTORY
* Dr. Nathan Elkins, editor, ancient world submissions, American Journal of Numismatics

ECONOMICS
* Dr. David VanHoose, editor, Journal of Macroeconomics

EDUCATION
* Dr. Perry Glanzer, MA ’91, editor-in-chief, Christian Scholar’s Review
* Dr. Krystal Goree, BA ’78, MSEd ’97, PhD ’11, editor, Tempo
* Dr. Todd Kettler, BA ’91, MSED ’94, PhD ’12, editor, Journal of Advanced Academics
* Dr. Jennifer Robins, BS ’98, MSED ’00, PhD ’10, co-editor, Journal for the Education of the Gifted

ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
* Dr. Robert Marks, editor-in-chief, Bio-Complexity

ENGLISH
* Dr. Kara Alexander, co-editor, Literacy in Composition Studies
* Dr. Joe Fulton, editor-in-chief and publisher, Mark Twain Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
* Dr. Bryan Brooks, editor-in-chief, Environmental Science & Technology Letters journals
* Dr. George Cobb, editor, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
* Dr. Ramon Lavado, associate editor, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; associate editor, Journal of Environmental and Toxicological Studies
* Dr. Cole Matson, associate editor, Ecotoxicology
* Dr. Christie Sayes, associate editor, Toxicology Research; editor, Nanotoxicology; editor, Toxicological Sciences

HISTORY
* Dr. Elesha Coffman, editor, Fides et Historia
* Dr. Barry Hankins, BA ’78, MA ’83, editor, Journal of Church and State

INFORMATION SYSTEMS & BUSINESS ANALYTICS
* Dr. Dorothy Leidner, editor-in-chief, Journal of the Association for Information Systems

LIBRARIES
* Ellen Filgo, social media editor, College and Research Libraries
* Amy James, associate editor, The Christian Librarian

MARKETING
* Dr. Marjorie Cooper, editor, Keller Center Research Report
* Dr. Andrea Dixon, regional editor for North America, European Journal of Marketing
* Dr. Kirk Wakefield, MBA ’81, editor, Baylor S3 Report

MATHEMATICS
* Dr. Fritz Gesztesy, editor-in-chief, Journal of Spectral Theory

MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES
* Dr. Jennifer Good, co-editor, Journal of Christianity and World Languages
* Dr. Theresa Kennedy, co-editor, Journal of Christianity and World Languages

MUSEUM STUDIES
* Dr. Julie Holcomb, editor, Quaker History

PHYSICS
* Dr. Gerald Cleaver, physics editor, Heliyon

POLITICAL SCIENCE
* Dr. Timothy Burns, editor-in-chief, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy

PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
* Dr. Gary Elkins, editor-in-chief, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

RELIGION
* Dr. Joe Coker, editor, Baptist History and Heritage
* Dr. Mikeal Parsons, editor, Perspectives in Religious Studies
* Dr. David Whitford, senior editor, Sixteenth Century Journal

SOCIAL WORK
* Dr. Danielle Parrish, editor-in-chief, Journal of Social Work Education

SOCIOLOGY
* Dr. Jerry Park, associate editor, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

THEATRE
* Dr. David Jortner, book review editor, Asian Theatre Journal

TRUETT SEMINARY
* Dr. Scott Gibson, general editor, The Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society

That list may not be exhaustive — in fact, if you know of more, send them our way. But it’s a representation of the influence of Baylor faculty, leading within their fields. And if we added associate editors, senior editors, and editorial board members to this post, their number would reach into the hundreds.

It’s another example of the ways Baylor faculty contribute well beyond the classroom or laboratory, and of the opportunities Baylor students have to learn from professors who are among the tops in their discipline in tangible ways.

Sic ’em, Baylor academic editors!