Mark Trahant will edit issue of ‘Dædalus’

Communication Program faculty member Mark Trahant has been named an editor for an upcoming 2018 edition of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Mark will travel to Harvard University this month to meet with members of the Academy and fellow editors.

In addition to this highly significant scholarly honor, Mark was quoted this month in a BBC World news article related to his work with Native Americans in the U.S. election: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36979321

Mark’s trahantreports.com Twitter popularity for his hashtag #NativeVote16 was over one million this past July (1,220,726 estimated reach). More information on the Dædalus journal where Mark will serve as an editor for an issue titled “The American Indian: Obstacles and Opportunities.” is provided below.

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the Academy, whose members are among the world’s most prominent thinkers in the sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as the full range of professions and public life.

Each quarterly issue contains multidisciplinary, authoritative essays on a topic; recent themes have included judicial independence, the global nuclear future, mass incarceration, the alternative energy future, the modern American military, race and inequality, and the future of the Internet. Often, issues are tied to current Academy projects, highlighting findings and recommendations from Academy research.

Subscribers to Dædalus include Academy members as well as research institutes, libraries, and other individuals. Both print and electronic subscriptions are available from MIT Press; recent issues are also available on Kindle.