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| Discipline | Indo-European studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Emily Blanchard West |
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| History | 1973–present |
| Publisher | Institute for the Study of Man |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Indo-Eur. Stud. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0092-2323 |
| LCCN | 73642748 |
| OCLC no. | 489056118 |
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TheJournal of Indo-European Studies (JIES) is apeer-reviewedacademic journal ofIndo-European studies. The journal publishes papers in the fields ofanthropology,archaeology,mythology andlinguistics relating to thecultural history of theIndo-European-speaking peoples. It is published every three months. Since 2020, the journal'seditor-in-chief is Emily Blanchard West, Associate Professor of Classics and History atSt. Catherine University.[1]
It also publishes theJournal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series. Among the prominent issues were theProceedings of the Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference from 1995 (the tenth conference) until 2007 (the twentieth conference).[2] This collaboration was discontinued in 2008: today, the proceedings are published by the Buske Verlag.[3]
JIES was founded in 1973 by Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologistMarija Gimbutas, Belgian-American philologistEdgar C. Polomé, Finnish linguistRaimo Aulis Anttila, and British publisherRoger Pearson, and published through Pearson's Institute for the Study of Man.[4]
The collaboration with Roger Pearson, "one of Americas foremost Nazi apologists and quite clearly a racist with one of the worlds best web of contacts", has sparked some controversy.[4] The Institute for the Study of Man also publishesMankind Quarterly and theJournal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, known to champion "debunked pseudoanthropological claims of a racial Aryanist diaspora".[5][6]
Pearson was on the journal'seditorial board for many years, which prompted some scholars to boycott the journal.[7] However, In 2002 American psychologistWilliam H. Tucker noted that, unlike Pearson's other publications, editorial control ofJIES was left to Gimbutas and Polomé. In this context, Tucker referred to theJIES asthe one publication at the [Institute for the Study of Man] of acknowledged academic value.
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In 2017, the journalist Karin Bojs interviewed archaeologist and long-timeJIES editorJ. P. Mallory on the topic:
Mallory makes it clear to me that he totally disagrees with Pearson’s views, such as the supposed existence of races hypothetically linked to different levels of intelligence. However, he believes democracy should allow researchers to write about crackpot theories, including politically sensitive ones. Moreover, if Pearson did not publish theJournal of Indo-European Studies, who would? Mallory hopes to see one of Pearson’s sons take over soon.[7]
In 2000, American journalistsChip Berlet and Matthew Nemiroff Lyons applied the terms "racialist" and "Aryanist" to the journal, although without giving any specific examples of such content.[5]
