The Annual Review of Virtue and the Professions
Aims and Scope
The Annual Review of Virtue and the Professions is an international, refereed, open-access journal published by the Institute for Social Concerns that focuses on cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on integrating character into professional and preprofessional education. Virtues & Vocations is not the expression of any one philosophical, theoretical, or applied school or tradition of educating professional ethics. Rather, the journal promotes exchange and collaboration among practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines, including architecture, business, education, engineering, medicine, science, law, journalism, and the humanities. Contributions that address new research, whether empirical or theoretical, on educating for character in the professions and reflecting standards of academic excellence, are encouraged.
The journal strives to be a first-rate place for interdisciplinary discussions that consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional higher education. Topics may vary widely from important methodological issues in assessing character in an engineering classroom to substantive descriptions of pedagogy in business or theoretical explorations shaped by moral philosophy for the formation of architects. Though individual articles may be rooted in one discipline— presenting a qualitative or quantitative study, critiquing an existing pedagogy, or defining a new method – the journal is interested in research that cuts across disciplines.
The Annual Review of Virtue and the Professions is an international, refereed, open-access journal published by the Institute for Social Concerns that focuses on cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on integrating character into professional and preprofessional education. Virtues & Vocations is not the expression of any one philosophical, theoretical, or applied school or tradition of educating professional ethics. Rather, the journal promotes exchange and collaboration among practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines, including architecture, business, education, engineering, medicine, science, law, journalism, and the humanities. Contributions that address new research, whether empirical or theoretical, on educating for character in the professions and reflecting standards of academic excellence, are encouraged.
The journal strives to be a first-rate place for interdisciplinary discussions that consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional higher education. Topics may vary widely from important methodological issues in assessing character in an engineering classroom to substantive descriptions of pedagogy in business or theoretical explorations shaped by moral philosophy for the formation of architects. Though individual articles may be rooted in one discipline— presenting a qualitative or quantitative study, critiquing an existing pedagogy, or defining a new method – the journal is interested in research that cuts across disciplines.
Submission Guidelines
The Review will be published annually in May, with the first issue arriving in May of 2027. Authors are invited to submit papers on a rolling basis in response to the thematic call. Please review these submission guidelines carefully for details about types of articles accepted along with length and style requirements. Submissions under consideration will be sent out to two anonymous reviewers for double-blind peer review.
First Issue: The Character of Pre-Professional Education
To launch The Annual Review of Virtue and the Professions, we invite submissions that interrogate the role of character education in pre-professional education. In calling the issue “The Character of Pre-Professional Education,” we lean into questions about the nature of fields, the quality of traditional professional preparation, and the aims to educate professionals of excellent character. What, for example, is the character of the pre-professional classroom? Does the tradition of educational preparation in your field create a barrier for the cultivation of character in students, or is there an unforeseen affordance in the annals of praxis? What excellences of character or virtues are needed for the future of your field, and what is the evidence we can teach for these? Where is the friction between ideals of character formation and professional training? Are these necessary points of friction, leading to justice, flourishing, and the common good or barriers to professional flourishing?
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Suzanne Shanahan, University of Notre Dame
Deputy Editor
Erin Collazo Miller, University of Notre Dame
Managing Editor
Samantha Deane, University of Notre Dame
Associate Editor
Dustin Webster, University of Notre Dame
Review Board
- Jason Baehr, Loyola Marymount University
- Brendan Case, Harvard University
- Meg Chisolm, Johns Hopkins University
- Elise Dykhuis, United States Military Academy
- Tom Harrison, Jubilee Centre for Character & Virtues
- Andy Hoffman, University of Michigan
- Elizabeth Kincade, Baylor University
- Sabrina Little, Ohio State University
- Guru Madhavan, National Academy of Engineering
- Haskell Murray, Belmont University
- Ryan Olson, University of Virginia
- Ashley Pavlic Medical College of Wisconsin
- Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University
- Kristin Ropella, Marquette University
- Sarah Schnitker, Baylor University
- Nancy Snow, University of Kansas
- Maureen Spelman, North Central College
- Kenneth Townsend, Wake Forest University