Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since Joan Gero’s (1985) pioneering article “Sociopolitics and the Woman-at-Home Ideology,” feminist archaeologists have been gathering data on the gendered dynamics of archaeological publication and funding. After a lull in the early 2000s, this literature has been undergoing a renaissance. Recent publications have shown that NSF-funded senior grants (Goldstein et al. 2018), and articles in *American Antiquity (Gamble 2020; Rautman 2014) and *Journal of Field Archaeology (Heath-Stout 2020), are male-dominated due to differential submission rates rather than bias in the review process. Others have demonstrated that there is a “peer review gap,” where women are more likely to publish in non-refereed venues (Fulkerson and Tushingham 2019; Tushingham et al. 2017) or present at conferences (Bardolph 2018; Bardolph and Vanderwarker 2016) rather than publishing in peer-reviewed journals, including regional journals (Bardolph 2014). This session highlights recent data-driven approaches to the issues of diversity and equity in archaeology publications and grants. Suggested topics for this session include demonstrated or recommended approaches to promoting diversity in submission rates; analyses or self-studies of submission demographics for grants or regional, national, or international journals (peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed); methodological complexities; and historical perspectives on inequities in the discipline.