As editors of the Routledge Handbook of Communication History, we invite queries and self-nominations for authoring chapters. Across 30 chapters, we aim to draw together international research on a broad range of topics in communication history, focusing on ideas, social practices, and media. We seek to represent both established and emergent fields of historical investigation, and look at both forms of communication and communicative dimensions of broader social processes. Possible topics range from audiences, conversation, images, and a range of specific media; to politics, sexuality, family, war, and cities; to histories or communicative forms tied particularly to regions outside Western Europe and North America.

Ideally, chapters will address their subjects in historically broad cross-national perspective, introduce key questions and relevant literature, and make suggestions about needed research or new directions for it. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, the Handbook will be used by researchers, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates, and will be distributed by Routledge worldwide.

First drafts of chapters would be due to the editors August 15, 2011 (working plans for them by January 15, 2011).

If you are interested in writing a chapter or suggesting a topic, contact Peter Simonson: peter.simonson@colorado.edu.

Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T. Craig, and John P. Jackson

Faculty, Department of Communication/School of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of Colorado at Boulder