Review Statement

Deborah P. Amory; Sean G. Massey; Jennifer Miller; and Allison P. Brown

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies was produced with support from SUNY OER Services and the Rebus Community, a non-profit organisation building a new, collaborative model for publishing open textbooks. Critical to the success of this approach is including mechanisms to ensure that open textbooks produced with the Community are high quality, and meet the needs of all students who will one day use them. Rebus books undergo both peer review from faculty subject matter experts and beta testing in classrooms, where student and instructor feedback is collected.

Two rounds of peer review are planned for this text. Each chapter was reviewed in the summer/fall of 2019 by at least one subject expert, although the majority were reviewed by two. The books is now being beta testing; we will be actively collecting feedback from students and instructors in the Spring of 2020. The book will then be reviewed in entirety by two subject matter experts.

The chapter reviews were structured around considerations of the intended audience of the book, and examined the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and relevance of content, as well as longevity and cultural relevance. Further review by the editors and the project manager focused on clarity, consistency, organization structure flow, and grammatical errors. See the review guide for more details. Changes suggested by the reviewers were incorporated by chapter authors in consultation with the editors.

Editors Deborah Amory and Sean G. Massey and the chapter and profile authors would like to thank the reviewers for the time, care, and commitment they contributed to the project. We recognise that peer reviewing is a generous act of service on their part. This book would not be the robust, valuable resource that it is were it not for their feedback and input.

Chapter reviewers:

Zachary Blair University of Illinois at Chicago
Patricia Cain Santa Clara University
Elizabeth Calhoun Central European University
Letitia Campbell Emory University
Joanne Y. Corsica SUNY Empire State College
Kathleen Cumiskey College of Staten Island
Kim Dugan Eastern Connecticut State University
Evie DuVernay Cleveland State University
Rachel Farr
University of Kentucky
Andre Ford La Guardia Community College
Katherine Fox Southern Methodist University
Erica Friedman Florida International University
Sandra Holliman Santa Rosa Junior College
Kel R Karpinski New York City College of Technology
Larry Levine University of the Pacific
Joseph Mann Kentucky Community Colleges
Elijah Nealy University of St. Joseph, West Hartford
Raffi Sarkissian Christopher Newport University
Caitlin Shanley Temple University

About the authors

Deborah P. Amory is professor of social science at SUNY Empire State College. She holds a PhD from Stanford University in anthropology, and a BA from Yale University in African studies. Her early work focused on same-sex relations on the Swahili-speaking coast of East Africa and on lesbian identity in the United States. She has served in academic administration and has been energized by the open education movement, especially in relation to developing online open educational resource courses and textbooks, including Introduction to Anthropology, Sex and Gender in Global Perspective, and Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies.

Sean G. Massey is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Binghamton University and coinvestigator with the Binghamton University Human Sexualities Lab. He received his PhD in social personality psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on the study of sexuality, gender, anti-homosexual prejudice, attitudes toward same-sex parenting, racial bias in educational and law enforcement contexts, and the relationship between social science and social change.

Jennifer Miller earned a PhD in cultural studies from George Mason University and an MA in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University. She is an independent scholar and high school teacher. Her research focuses on LGBTQ+ children’s literature and culture, digital culture, and sexual subcultures. Her books include The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books (2022) and The Dialectic of Digital Culture (2019), which she coedited with David Arditi. Her scholarship appears in the Journal of Homosexuality, the European Journal of American Studies, Fast Capitalism, and other journals and edited collections.

Allison P. Brown is digital publishing services manager at SUNY Geneseo’s Fraser Hall Library. She oversees the library’s publishing program, which includes supporting student journals such as Gandy Dancer and the Proceedings of GREAT Day, and manages the editorial and production processes of the Geneseo Authors and Milne Open Textbooks imprints. She provides education and guidance to the Geneseo community in digital publishing, open access, open educational resources, and copyright. She studied for her MFA in poetry at Emerson College, where she also became interested in design and digital publishing.

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