The Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology is seeking applications for editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology as our current editor, Susan Maguire, prepares to step down. Please share this RFP with your colleagues. All correspondence should be addressed to the editorial search committee as directed in the RFP.

Best wishes,
Karen Metheny
Chair, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology


REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology
The Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (CNEHA) is soliciting proposals for the volunteer
position of editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology. The editor serves a 5-year, renewable term,
beginning January 1, 2017. The Editorial Search Committee encourages proposals from individuals
affiliated with universities, cultural resource management firms, government agencies, and museums, as
well as independent scholars.

About Northeast Historical Archaeology
Northeast Historical Archaeology is published annually by the Council for Northeast Historical
Archaeology. It is intended to further the council's aims to stimulate and encourage the collection,
preservation, and dissemination of knowledge and information concerning the practice of
historical archaeology in the North American Northeast. The journal publishes materials dealing
with the archaeology of the entire historical period, from initial contact of Old and New World
peoples during the age of European expansion to the Industrial Revolution, in the following U.S.
states and Canadian provinces: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Northeast Historical Archaeology is intended for professional and avocational archaeologists,
students, as well as non-archaeologists (preservationists, museum specialists, etc.) with an interest
in the material history and archaeology of the Northeast region. The journal publishes field
reports, technical and methodological studies, commentary, and interpretive analyses.

CNEHA also publishes Studies in Northeast Historical Archaeology, an occasional publication
series with individual editors appointed by the executive board. The editor of Northeast
Historical Archaeology works with the appointed editors of Studies in Northeast Historical
Archaeology. In cooperation with AECOM, CNEHA produces a poster series on the identification of artifacts
that is sold through the journal office.

Editorial Responsibilities
• Publish one issue of the journal Northeast Historical Archaeology annually.
• Solicit manuscripts for publication, identify peer reviewers, and oversee the manuscript review
process.
• Evaluate, edit, copyedit, proofread, and prepare manuscripts and illustrations for publication.
• Lay out each issue of the journal and monograph series.
• The editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology works with the appointed monograph editors to
manage the layout, production, and distribution of the monographs to ensure that the monographs
meet CNEHA’s editorial standards.
• Coordinate rights and reproduction both for publication in Northeast Historical Archaeology and
the monograph series, and requests for reprinting in other venues.
• Publish journal electronically on Digital Commons website.
• Arrange for journal printing.
• Arrange for bulk mailing of the journal.
• Store inventory of back issues of the journal and CNEHA poster series and handle sales,
including arranging for displays and sales at CNEHA’s annual conference and other professional
meetings.
• Manage annual editorial office budget in conjunction with CNEHA’s treasurer.
• Maintain the editorial office, with computer and appropriate design- and image-processing
software (currently Adobe Creative Suite), telecommunications, Internet, and reproduction
services. Access to bulk-mail services is preferred.
• Continue efforts with the CNEHA board to modernize and streamline editorial and production
processes including the maintenance of the Journal’s webpage in coordination with CNEHA’s.
• Work with members of the Journal Advisory Committee whose task is to encourage submissions,
aid the review process, or otherwise promote the journal.
• Report twice annually to the CNEHA Executive Board, on which the editor serves as an exofficio
member, and quarterly to the treasurer.

Proposals must be submitted by May 31, 2016, and must demonstrate the candidate's approach to and
ability to fulfill the responsibilities of the editor within the council's annual budget of $6,000 for the
editorial office. The council’s budget for the editorial office is supplemented by back-issue and poster
sales, which for the last few years have brought the total operating budget to about $8,000. This figure
does not include printing costs for the journal. Although the editor is a volunteer position, part-time
clerical and editorial assistants may be employed. Candidates proposing to affiliate with an institution or
business must include a letter of support from the institution or business.

For more information, and to submit a proposal, contact:
Sara Mascia
CNEHA Editorial Search Committee
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