Gleanings CFP – Fall 2026

Summary: Grad students and postdocs, showcase your research in Gleanings, a short-form publication series from Culture & Agriculture. This issue’s theme is shifting norms in the food and farm system. Proposals are due Sunday, October 11, 2026.

Details: Gleanings, a short-form publication series from the American Anthropology Association’s Culture and Agriculture section, is pleased to announce that we are seeking proposals from graduate students and postdocs, for short essays (1000-1500 words) to be published in (late) fall of 2026. Gleanings is an intellectually rigorous, theme-based series focused on food and agriculture. It promotes the work of graduate students and postdoctoral anthropologists by featuring short essays based on original research. You can see recent publications on Culture and Agriculture’s website, cultureandagriculture.org/gleanings.  

This issue’s theme is shifting norms in the food and farm system. We invite submissions to ethnographically examine and anthropologically theorize about norms and how they change in and through food and farming. “Norms” here is broadly construed, encompassing but not limited to normativity, social facts, conscious and unconscious social structures, gender, racialization, naturalization, and power. We invite scholars to theorize “norms” with and through their ethnographic material. What norms are produced through food and farm systems? How are these norms experienced by people, and what are the ramifications? How do people reify, challenge, maneuver, or resist norms in food and farming?

Proposals should be limited to 150-300 words, rooted in original ethnographic and anthropological research, and speak to this issue’s theme. If accepted, we request you submit your essay manuscript (of maximum 1500 words) within six weeks of acceptance, accompanied by an optional 1-2 images. 

Proposals are due Sunday, October 11, 2026 via this Google form.

Writers will be notified of their acceptance no later than Friday, October 23.

If you have any questions, please contact Culture and Agriculture Gleanings Editor Rebecca Dudley, at rebecca.a.dudley@wustl.edu, with “Gleanings CFP” in the subject line.