Please indulge my shameless self promotion, but his particular piece of academic hucksterism happens to dovetail well the mission of the blog. The inaugural edition of the Journal of Integrated Social Science, of which I am the Political Science editor and co-blogger Bryan Rasmussen is the Humanities editor, has just been published. In particular, I draw your attention to the editorial introduction which lays out the aims of the journal. Here’s an excerpt that captures the mission of the journal:

Today we find that scholars are becoming very specialized in one particular field of study thereby often under-emphasizing how their area of expertise relates to other fields of study. Having experts on given topics is, without doubt, absolutely essential in order to advance our understanding of human functioning. It is with this in mind that we are hereby launching the new Journal of Integrated Social Sciences (JISS) – a renewed collaborative effort, following the spirit of the intellectual pioneers from the 1860s, to bring together the rich and diverse set of disciplines through the new technology now available to us in the 21st century.

I encourage those of you with an interest in integrative, cross-disciplinary inquiry to submit their work and take advantage of a unique platform to engage in a broader scholarly conversations that those to which we are accustomed.