We invite you to the conversation

JAPAS represents a highly engaging forum where professionals and plain people alike address new challenges through novel and innovative strategies. Submit your research, project report, or essay to JAPAS.

 

We offer the following free services:

• Professional review and editing

• Author-retention of content copyright

• Print- and online-publication versions

• Content promotion to thousands of potential readers

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Learn more about our aims & scope and access the submission portal at the JAPAS homepage.

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What makes JAPAS distinctive?

• JAPAS is the original Amish and Plain Anabaptist journal. The innovative spirit that brought this publication to life is still evidenced in the precedent-setting imaginativeness of every issue.

• JAPAS loves new ideas. Our board members include scholars and service providers, plain people, women and men of all ages, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, and numerous institutions. They support JAPAS because they share a commitment to advancing understanding through diverse perspectives.

• The JAPAS 25-member book review panel consists entirely of plain people. This is just one of many ways the “written about” will “write back” in JAPAS.

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Cover Images
Photographers and artists: share your creative visual work capturing the plain people and their material culture for JAPAS’s front cover. Accepted submissions will include an artist-authored description in the JAPAS table of contents as well as an author bio and website (if applicable). Contact the editor by email for more information: editor@amishstudies.org.