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Propose a volume for the NIAS book series

19 October 2026
What does it mean to do free scholarship under growing political, economic and societal pressure? NIAS Studies in Academic Freedom and Epistemic Diversity, published with Leuven University Press, welcomes proposals for monographs and edited volumes that take up this question.

This series of monographs and edited volumes brings together insights from the institute’s fellows, alumni and partners, and is equally open to proposals from scholars beyond that network.

Each volume addresses the structural challenges facing scholars, disciplines, knowledge domains and academic institutions as they navigate political, policy-related, economic and societal pressures. The series opens a conversation about where scholars and disciplines stand today, where we want them to go and what it will take to get there.

The first two volumes, Doing Ethnography by Annelies Moors and Citizenship in Nativist Times, edited by Menno Hurenkamp and Tamar de Waal, are freely available in open access.

If you would like to present a manuscript or proposal to the editorial board, please contact the editorial secretary, Merlijn Olnon, at merlijn.olnon@nias.knaw.nl.