H-Islamart (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~islamart/) is a website devoted to promoting high standards of scholarship and instruction in the history of Islamic art. The website facilitates communication among its members through meetings and through the HIA Newsletter and Directory.
H-Islamart is part of H-Net, an international consortium of scholars and teachers. H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. H-Net sponsors more than 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters or “lists” edited by scholars. Subscribers and editors communicate through electronic mail messages sent to the group. H-Net lists reach over 100,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries.
The H-Islamart list is co-edited by Alan Fisher, History Department, Michigan State University, Linda Komaroff, Department of Ancient and Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Bernard O’Kane, American University in Cairo. The editors serve two-year renewable terms, with the approval of the H-Net Executive Committee and rotate their duties.
At H-Islamart information is available on symposiums, books, fellowships, newsletters, articles funding and much more — all related to the history of Islamic art. Visitors can search postings and discussion logs by date, subject or author. A part of H-Islamart is the H-Net Job Guide that posts academic position announcements in History and the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Rhetoric and Composition, and serves a broad audience of administrators, faculty members, archivists, librarians, and other professionals in the humanities and social sciences.
For academics interested in making their research known to a wider audience, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. H-Net Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net website.
This permits the reviews to reach scholars quickly and enables interactivity between reviewers, authors and readers.
