About the Journal
This journal was originally released in January 1989 under the title Imhotep: An Afrocentric Review. At the time, Imhotep was a publication which “accepts manuscripts which advance the Afrocentric School of Thought”. Since then, little has changed except for the fact that the journal is now managed by the graduate students in Temple’s Africology Department, hence the recent name change: Imhotep Graduate Student Journal. Through innovative, original research on the African (i.e., Black) experience, this publication provides a platform for readers to engage with African phenomena and rediscover African epistemologies through intellectual discourse.
Current Issue
Imhotep Graduate Student Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal managed by the graduate students of the Africology and African American Studies Department at Temple University. More than thirty-six years ago, in January 1989, the Imhotep Graduate Student Journal was first published as a platform to explore global African phenomena and to rediscover African epistemologies through intellectual discourse. Imhotep Graduate Student Journal provides an opportunity for developing scholars to gain experience with peer review academic publishing.
We invite current graduate students in Africana Studies to submit abstracts for original research papers (15-22 double spaced pages). The Imhotep Journal especially encourages the submission of revised term papers, conference presentations, or thesis chapters. The 2026 issue will consist of submissions which ask a broad range of research questions that engage the African Renaissance in this contemporary moment and the power of culture to shape the future and utilize Afrocentric methodologies to bolster African/Black cultural reconstruction and well-being beyond the academy.
