About This Journal
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) ran from 2001-2017 as an innovative online cultural studies journal. It was dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of new and emerging scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.
This journal was one of the first electronic only, open access, peer reviewed, free to publish and read journals. It was hosted by the E-Server at Carnegie Mellon which ended in 2018; issues were then stored temporarily on the digitalodu server at Old Dominion University. Originally edited by Davin Heckman and Matthew Wolf-Meyer while both were doctoral students at Bowling Green State University, it grew to include membership that spanned the globe while still bearing traces of its origins and the generous spirit of its founders and their mentors.
In Spring 2024, Old Dominion University Libraries began archiving all issues of the journal in the ODU Digital Commons repository.
Copyright Statement: All material contained within this site is copyrighted by the identified author. If no author is identified in relation to content, that content is © Reconstruction.
Indexed in: MLA Bibliography (2002-); Humanities International Complete (2011-); Gale Academic OneFile (2015-); Google Scholar
Note About Formatting
Original issues were in HTML format, which allows for more flexibility than the Digital Commons system used for archiving. Digital Commons requires that items submitted are in MS Word format and then converted to PDF. It also limits certain aspects of the contents pages.
In archiving this journal, every effort was made to maintain the integrity of the original papers with only minor editing. Because of the age of the articles, when links are no longer valid, they may be un-linked and/or an updated link is entered in brackets. In some cases, there were too many outward links to fix. All endnote links within papers pointing to the original servers have been corrected.