In this episode, Robert Cassanello speaks with Dr. Michael Munnik, review editor of H-SAE, about an experience of editing a non-native English speaker and offers some advice for preserving the reviewer's voice in such a situation.

In this second part of our series on the early days of H-Net, Robert Cassanello speaks with long-time H-Law editor Dr. Charles Zelden about the earliest book reviews on H-Law.

In this episode, Robert Cassanello speaks with Dr. Michael Munnik, Lecturer in Social Science Theories and Methods at Cardiff University and review editor for H-SAE, and Jim Niessen, World History Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries, former VP for Research and Publications, and former review editor for Habsburg, about reviewing cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, including our German partners, H-Soz-Kult.

In this episode, Robert Cassanello speaks with H-Net's first Vice President for Research and Publications, a Habsburg list editor from 1994 to 2009, and World History Bibliographer at Rutgers University Libraries, Jim Niessen. Jim talks about the early days of reviews on individual H-Net listservs, the promise of interactivity and rapid dissemination of reviews, and the centralization of H-Net Reviews through the online archive.

In this episode, Robert speaks with Seth Denbo, Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives at the American Historical Association, about the Guidelines on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians, released in June 2015.

The Art of the Review - Episode 32 Revelry

In this episode, Robert takes a field trip to Sanford, Florida to attend Revelry, a poetry event organized by Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright to honor the life and legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Robert speaks to Dr. Wright about the review process that goes into judging poetry submissions for Revelry. Anyone who has had any experience with MFA programs will have a sense of the difficulties of evaluating someone's personal creative expression. Dr. Wright provides some valuable insights in how to serve as a reviewer in such a position.

The Art of the Review - Episode 31 Introducing H-Law's Legal History Podcast