Dear reader,
We hope you enjoy this new issue of Ethnologia Europaea, which comes with several changes to the structure and editorship of the journal. It is with poignant memories and happy expectations for Ethnologia Europaea that we write about a new era: to begin, EE has just moved to a new publisher at the start of 2024. Berghahn Journals will now be our home for the foreseeable future, and we are already enjoying the professional atmosphere of this independent, progressive and social science-friendly publishing house. With this switch from OLH, EE now becomes part of Berghahn's OpenAnthro model.1
We feel this change will usher in a bright new future for the journal because it will give it much more visibility, as we will be part of a collection of high-ranking journals, including Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (SA/AS) and the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC). Please do recommend the OpenAnthro collection to your libraries; it is library subscriptions that make this “open model” possible.
Secondly, after this issue, Laura Stark leaves as co-editor and Patrick Laviolette takes over from her as the new co-editor. Patrick has been the editor-in-chief of the two sister periodicals mentioned above: AJEC since 2019, and previous to that, he was involved with the EASA's SA/AS. He thus brings a great deal of experience to the position, joining Alexandra Schwell, who continues in her co-editorship post. Another change is that Agnieszka Pasieka, from EE's Editorial Board, will now be in charge of the short “ethnographic snapshots” contributions. So a warm welcome to Aga and Patrick; many thanks to Laura for her excellent work; and thanks also to Alexandra for ensuring continuity.
We will also very much miss Magdalena Tellenbach, who has been EE's Production Manager and Publication Editor and the longest-serving person working on EE in the recent past. She worked on the journal for over 15 years and was the one who ensured its excellent formatting and language, as well as the finished and elegant look of our printed and online issues. We deeply thank Magdalena and wish her all the best in the future! We will miss her.
With the move to Berghahn, EE became a fully fledged SIEF journal, also in terms of ownership, with full editorial freedom. Despite these changes, we will obviously continue to strive to publish high-quality research from the fields of ethnology, anthropology and folklore studies, as well as from relevant cogent fields. So please do consider sending us your guest-edited special issue proposals, full-length articles and more concise ethnographic snapshot contributions. We wish all our readers a more peaceful and hopeful spring than we've recently had during these disturbing times!
Laura Stark, Alexandra Schwell, Aga Pasieka and Patrick Laviolette