We, Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, the new co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, are thrilled to announce that Frontiers will move to its new intellectual home at The Ohio State University in May 2012. We are particularly grateful for the financial support provided by the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences, the Departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and The Women’s Place. We also thank the previous co-editors, Susan Gray and Gayle Gullett, who successfully managed the journal for eight years at the Arizona State University, for entrusting us with this responsibility. Frontiers will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2015; throughout this time it has been one of the premier publications in the field of feminist and gender studies. Frontiers has distinguished itself for its diverse and decisively interdisciplinary publication agenda that explores the critical intersections among—to name a few dimensions—gender, race, sexuality, and transnationalism. Many landmark articles in the field have been published in Frontiers, thus critically shaping the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

As the new editors of Frontiers we are humbled and honored to continue the journal’s tradition of rigorous scholarship and innovative research. As new editors we pledge to support the kinds of scholarship that have afforded this journal its visibility and respect in the field. We are particularly invested in making Frontiers a place where scholars doing work on gender and race can publish their research. In addition, we are renewing the journal’s commitment to the arts by providing feminist and gender conscious artists the opportunity to promote their work on the pages of Frontiers.

We are kicking off this celebration by announcing a series of special issues for Frontiers. To commemorate the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the journal, we are planning one special issue every year that reflects on significant events and topics from forty years ago. These forthcoming themed issues will examine Women, Equity, and Politics; Transnational Feminism and Globalization; Women, Technology, and the Digital Divide; and Intersectionality.

Our first special issue will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and we invite new and varied submissions on the topics of reproductive rights, reproductive justice, and reproductive technologies. We welcome scholarship from diverse fields as well as creative works of fiction and visual art. We are pleased that Professor Mytheli Sreenivas will join us as guest editor for this timely special issue.

For information on submission guidelines for the issue, please consult the websites sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press and Arizona State University:

We plan to launch a new Ohio State University website in the coming months. Meanwhile, we can be reached via email  and at the following address:
Editors of Frontiers (beginning May 12, 2012)
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ohio State University
286 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

Journal submissions, with the exception of special issue submissions, should continue to be sent to the current editorial office in Arizona State University up until May 11, 2012. All submissions for the Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice Special Issue as well as submissions not related to the special issue sent after May 12, 2012 should be directed to Ohio State. With great excitement and anticipation we look forward to reading and learning from future scholarship in the ever expanding field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies!

Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, new co-editors
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies