Abdeali Saherwala | Contributor
Featured Image: Professor Boyd Cothran is excited to co-edit JGAPE just five years after receiving his PhD. | Courtesy of American Society for Ethnohistory
Five years after receiving his doctorate in history, Professor Boyd Cothran is now a co-editor of a major international journal—The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (JGAPE).
A publication of the University of Cambridge, JGAPE also belongs to the university’s press. Cothran will co-edit the journal alongside Professor C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa of George Mason University.
“Research journals are where cutting-edge research first appears,” Cothran explained regarding his rationale for accepting the position. “They’re where new discoveries are weighed and considered, and new methodologies developed and tested.
“It is an honour and a privilege to have the opportunity to help direct this vital avenue for advancing new historical research and influencing the overall direction of the field.”
Cothran, a York professor with the Department of History, holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota. His research interests lie in U.S. Cultural History, Indigenous Peoples, American West, Historical Memory, Historiography, Political Economy, Settler Colonialism, and American Innocence.
In addition, Professor Cothran won an LA&PS award for Distinction in research in 2016 in the Emerging Scholar category, for his excellent research in the LA&PS department.
“We are confident that, in their hands, JGAPE will maintain its reputation as the premier journal for original scholarship on the gilded age and progressive era, as well as a site for incisive historiographical and pedagogical thinking about the field,” stated Professor Amy Wood, executive secretary of the Society for Historians of The Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
The students, the faculty and the administrative body at York are beyond proud of his achievement. Cothran will represent York at an international level. Being a young professor, he has already demonstrated both his skills and passion for history by attaining this title of co-editor for such a prestigious publication.
