Now Accepting Submissions for the Spring 2025 Journal!
Due April 18 at 5pm. Read the 2025 Submission Guidelines for Students for Details
2025 Editorial Board
Undergraduate Editorial Board:
Rasmus Valade, Editor in Chief, is a history major and sociology minor whose work focuses on American imperialism and Cold War foreign policy. Valade is currently writing a thesis on the impact of the 80's punk countercultural publication, Maximum Rock'n Roll.
Catherine Wan, Editor in Chief, is a history and legal studies double major whose work focuses on modern Chinese history and the Asian American diaspora. Wan is currently serving on the executive board of the UMass Asian American Student Association as Advocacy Chair.
Katie Robertson, Editor in Chief, is a senior history major in the Commonwealth Honors College, and part of the Medieval Studies Certificate program whose work focuses on later English and Italian medieval literature, the feminine body/soul dyad, and theological studies of the Sinner. Robertson is currently writing a thesis on the 15th-Century poem, Sir Gowther, about the path of rehabilitation from undomesticated demonic terror to a saintly domesticated knight, through the facilitation of feminine and canid figures.
Faculty Advisor:
Professor Garrett Washington
Past Editions
Photo Credit: “Students at the Free University City, ca. 1970: Students sit near the tents at the Free University City, a student-constructed area raised in the wake of overcrowding, behind the Southwest Residential Complex.” University Photograph Collection, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries.