Waterloo Historical Review Vol. 12 Call for Reviewers

2025-03-25

As part of our Call for Submissions for the 12th edition of the WHR, we are also seeking interested upper-year undergraduate students, graduate students, early-career professionals, and faculty to serve as peer reviewers for original research papers, scholarly articles, case studies, literature reviews, and book reviews.

Peer reviewers are expected to be able to review no more than 2 submissions a year and we particularly encourage graduate students and early career professionals as a good entry point to being involved with scholarly publishing.

How to Sign-up:

Be a current upper-year undergraduate student (finishing 3rd or 4th year), a graduate student, or
recent graduate of the University of Waterloo & fill out the Waterloo Historic Review Peer
Reviewer Form by answering all questions to the best of your ability.

You will be asked:
      ● Name and contact details
      ● Year/Program of study
      ● Types of submissions you are willing to review
      ● Topics of expertise

We welcome peer reviewers with expertise on any historical topic, including by not limited to:
      ● Political, social, and cultural histories
      ● Historiography and historical methodology
      ● Transnational and global histories
      ● Public history and memory studies
      ● Interdisciplinary approaches to history


Peer Reviewer Guidelines:

  • Must be a current upper-year undergraduate student (finishing 3rd or 4th year), a graduate student, or a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo. May be required to submit verification of credentials or enrollment.

  • Ensure all communications are clear, respectful, timely, and transparent.

  • Respect the confidentiality of peer review and do not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the process, beyond those released by the journal.

  • Refrain from using any information obtained during peer review for your own or another’s advantage.

  • Declare all potential conflicts of interest, including knowledge of the author, promptly.

  • Be objective and constructive in your reviews and refrain from hostile, libelous, personal, derogatory, or inflammatory comments.

  • Decline to review if you feel unable to provide a fair, unbiased, and timely review.

  • Disclose to editors if an article may have been plagiarized, if data has been fabricated or inappropriately manipulated, or if any other breach of academic ethics has occurred.

  • Must be able to attend a one-hour peer reviewer training session.

  • Must be able to review up to two submissions per year

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to email us!