rust belt studies
A Journal of Public and
Emplaced Humanities
Sponsored by Ohio Humanities in
collaboration with Midstory.
ISSUE 1
2025
IN THE ISSUE
By Katharine G. Trostel and Valentino L. Zullo
The idea for a Rust Belt humanities emerged from a simple question: What would it take for Clevelanders...
By Tiana U. Wilson and J Coley
On May 14, 2022, locals came to a standstill as they awaited updates about the active shooter on the East...
Reviewed by William Barillas
A regular column in a local publication must rank among the more challenging assignments...
Yeong-Hyun Kim
Rust Belt cities have often been portrayed with the images of abandoned manufacturing plants, urban...
By Karol Kovalovich Weaver
On March 19, 1980, twenty-three buses arrived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The people aboard had...
Reviewed by Hayley Verdi
When most people experience rural areas of the Midwest, they do so through the windows of their cars...
James J. Connolly and Patrick Collier
Late in 2017, a civic leader in Muncie, Indiana, attended a dinner celebrating local business successes...
Jon K. Lauck
Columbus is in the center of Ohio, a state that is the Heart of It All, as the saying goes, and the city...
Reviewed by Valentino Zullo
Michael D. Dwyer’s book, Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt, opens with the same question...
ABOUT
Rust Belt Studies uses the framework of the public and emplaced humanities and social sciences in order to define, explore, and map an understudied region: The Rust Belt. The journal seeks articles which focus on the importance of regional storytelling in fostering a sense of place, identifying and contributing to social solutions, and reimagining the role of the humanities within this sphere. Because so much of the United States’ problems and promise converge on the Rust Belt, the journal aims to model ways to use the humanities to find new solutions, tell better stories, and empower teacher-scholars to imagine new models for fostering civic engagement within their rooted context.
SUBMISSIONS
All article submissions should be sent via email attachment in Microsoft Word. PDF and other word processing formats will not be accepted for review. All submissions should conform to standards for citation that govern publications in the author's field and should include a bibliography, if appropriate. We will consider short pieces but cannot consider texts of more than 7500 words, including notes. All submissions are subject to two, or more, blind peer reviews by members of the editorial board.
Email: Katharine.Trostel@Ursuline.edu and Valentino.Zullo@Ursuline.edu
Open Access Statement:
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful non-commercial purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Copyright statement:
Authors retain intellectual property rights to their material and may re-publish it provided that Rust Belt Studies is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
MASTHEAD
Editors
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Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline College
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Valentino L. Zullo, Ursuline College
Editorial Board
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Beatrice Adams, The College of Wooster
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Emiliano Aguilar, University of Notre Dame
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Marc Blanc, Washington University in St. Louis
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Jeffrey Bloodworth, Gannon University
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Camden Burd, Clemson University
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Cara Byrne, Case Western Reserve University
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Vera Camden, Kent State University
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Jodie Childers, Tulane University
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Tara Conley, Kent State University
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Josh Davidson, Oberlin College
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Dawn Ellis, Case Western Reserve University
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Christabel Devadoss, Middle Tennessee State University
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Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Greer Hamilton, University of Michigan
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Michelle Harris, University of North Alabama
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Casey T. Jakubowski, SUNY Oneonta
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Jon Lauck, Editor-in-Chief, Middle West Review
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Patrick McGinty, Slippery Rock University
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Matthew McLeskey, SUNY Oswego
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David Miller, Elis Press
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Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve University
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Lorie B. Owens, The Ohio State University.
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Andy Oler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Elaine Parsons, Kent State University
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Ryan Prewitt, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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James Rhodes, Hiram College
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Jeannette Schollaert, University of Maryland, College Park
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Paul Spyhalski, Independent Scholar
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Jackson Tucker, University of Maryland, College Park
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Shu Wan, SUNY Buffalo
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Jon Wlasiuk, Michigan State University
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Hayley Verdi, Ursuline College
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