The Compendium is organized by ISA Sections. With over 20 substantive sections, we have a ready-made structure for the organization of this project. Each section has been asked to contribute. The section-driven lists of topics will be reviewed and augmented, when necessary, with solicitations to those who might provide unique perspectives. Each section will be encouraged to offer an essay on the questions that are being ignored or underrepresented.
ISA sections are putting together committees to help coordinate this task. Most of the committees are composed of five or six members. We are especially interested in including representatives from different facets of the discipline, as well as those of different ranks. The task of coming up with topics is closely associated with identification of possible authors and reviewers. We hope the committees will play a central role in this process as well.
Many section representatives have asked "how much space" they have been allotted. We have upwards of seven thousand pages we can fill, and so the question should really be turned around. How much space do you need? How many review essays (of about 10k words each) will it take to represent the important strands of the relevant literature? Can we find qualified authors to write on these topics? This seems a more coherent way to build a comprehensive project of this magnitude. Should entries far outpace our available space, we will talk about cutting back. But the initial question should be "what do you need?"and not what might (arbitrarily) be assigned at this early date.
Please click on the links to the left to browse by section area (note, most sections have not yet submitted information, these links are merely placeholders).
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Compendium Committee Chair
Bob Denemark, University of Delaware
E-Mail: denemark@udel.edu
