Cities and the Environment (CATE) (Center for Urban Resilience)

ISSN 1932-7048

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Cities and the Environment publishes peer-reviewed scholarship on the research, education, and practice related to the broad field of urban ecology.

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience (Academic Resource Center)

Welcome to First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience, a publication devoted to the art and scholarship of individuals who identify as "first-generation college" as well as those who support our community.

See the Aims and Scope for complete coverage of the journal.

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal (Mission and Ministry)

ISSN 2164-7666

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal (JHE) is a scholarly, peer reviewed, open access, online journal focused on the development, advancement, and critique of higher education in the Jesuit tradition. We welcome submissions on the scholarship and practice of Ignatian pedagogy in any academic disciplinary or interdisciplinary context as well as how the Jesuit mission is infused in all aspects of higher education, including student life, experiential learning, and other cocurricular activities.

“For everyone ought to reflect that in all spiritual matters, the more one divests oneself of self-love, self-will, and self-interests, the more progress one will make.”

Journal of Applied Yoga Studies (Yoga Studies)

This Journal intends to highlight yoga as a living philosophy relevant to many aspects and concerns of today’s world. By offering a bridge where philosophy, science, and practical application are integrated, positive change at the individual, interpersonal, and community-wide levels can be cultivated. Articles will be deeply rooted in foundational philosophies and practices of yoga while highlighting current scientific thought and practical application in social, environmental, education, or healthcare contexts. This journal strives to honor both modern empirical science and the traditional experiential methods of yoga science.

Journal of Catholic Education (School of Education)

ISSN 2373-8170

The Journal of Catholic Education (formerly Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice), is currently managed and edited by the University of Notre Dame and digitally hosted by Loyola Marymount University. We are an open access journal representing Catholic colleges and universities, Catholic education leaders, and scholars from a variety of disciplines who are collectively committed to contributing research and encouraging best practice in Catholic elementary, secondary, and higher education by advancing the field of Catholic educational research.

Journal of Clinical Art Therapy (Marital and Family Therapy)

ISSN 2161-9018

The Journal of Clinical Art Therapy is an online peer-reviewed publication. It is sponsored by the Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy with Specialized Training in Art Therapy and housed within the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University.

The journal aspires to explore current art therapy knowledge and to support the development of our practice within a systemic frame. Specifically, the journal is informed by mental health practices in the US and internationally, engagement in artistic processes and a broad understanding of diversity.

See a link to our most popular papers here: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jcat/topdownloads.html

For more information please contact Joyce Yip Green.

• Submit to the Journal of Clinical Art Therapy

Journal for Clinical Art Therapy

Special Issue: Art Therapy & Phenomenological Inquiry

Scope and Themes

This Special Issue welcomes contributions that engage phenomenology at any level—philosophical foundations, methodological applications, or practical research methods. Relevant topics include:

• Lived experience in art therapy: embodiment, perception, emotion, memory, and meaning
• Phenomenological research methods in art therapy (e.g., IPA, autoethnography, descriptive or hermeneutic phenomenology, PAR)
• Creative processes as phenomenological meaning-making
• Phenomenology of trauma, healing, transformation, or identity
• The therapeutic encounter: Intersubjectivity, presence, and relationality in art therapy practice
• Arts-based phenomenological research and visual methods
• Case studies informed by phenomenological principles
• Cross-cultural, existential, and spiritual dimensions of art therapy
• Phenomenology in community-based, clinical, educational, or interdisciplinary settings
• Researcher positionality, reflexivity, and philosophical grounding
• Supervision or training practices informed by phenomenology

Types of Contributions

• Original Research Articles (empirical, theoretical, or methodological)
• Practice-based Reflections (case studies, interventions, clinical insights)
• Arts-based Submissions (creative work with accompanying critical commentary)
• Reviews or Conceptual Papers (literature syntheses, emerging frameworks, policy discussions)

Phenomenology in Art Therapy Research

Phenomenology provides the philosophical stance that shapes how researchers understand experience and position themselves in relation to participants. As a research methodology, it guides the design of studies by helping researchers think about their position, assumptions, and approach to meaning-making. As a set of research methods, phenomenology includes descriptive and interpretive analyses, heuristic inquiry, autoethnography, and participatory approaches (such as Participatory Action Research) that support the exploration of lived experience through language, stories, images, embodiment, and creative processes.

Submission Guidelines

• Manuscripts should follow APA 7th edition formatting.
• Word counts:
  • 5,000–6,000 words for full articles
  • 1,500–3,000 words for practice-based reflections
• Include a 150-200 word abstract and 3–5 keywords.
• High-resolution images of artwork or community projects are encouraged (with proper permissions).

AI Use and Transparency Requirements

The Journal for Clinical Art Therapy supports the ethical use of artificial intelligence tools in academic writing, analysis, and creative inquiry when used responsibly and transparently. Authors must adhere to the following expectations:

• AI tools may not be listed as authors.
• Any use of AI (e.g., for writing assistance, coding, transcription, image generation, or analytic support) must be disclosed in the Methods or Acknowledgments section of the manuscript.
• Authors must describe how AI tools were used, the specific tools employed, and the degree to which outputs were modified.
• Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of all content.
• AI-generated or AI-altered images or figures may not be used, except when central to the research topic, design, or methods.

Sample AI Disclosure: During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [Name of Tool/Service, Version] in order to [Purpose/Reason]. The author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the manuscript.

How to Submit

Please submit full manuscripts through the Journal for Clinical Art Therapy submission portal: Submit here.

For questions about the Special Issue, contact the Editor at: Joyce Yip Green

Journal of Movement Arts Literacy Archive (2013-2019) (Dance)

ISSN 2328-3602

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law (Student Publications)

The Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law (LIJPIL) is an academic journal with an interdisciplinary and narrative-based approach to public interest advocacy and education. The Journal strives to disrupt “traditional” law school curricula and pedagogy by bringing together scholarly articles, lectures, and practitioner essays alongside poetry, art, and short creative and autoethnographic works to emphasize the power of storytelling in systemic change. Inspired by the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal, a 2007 independent collaboration between Southern California law schools, LIJPIL is proud to pursue topical themes in public interest law collectively chosen by its staff. The Journal is committed to highlighting the stories of underrepresented communities by providing a forum for a diverse range of legal professionals, scholars, policy makers, artists, and critical thinkers. 

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review (Law Reviews)

The Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review is a specialty review devoted to Entertainment, Sports, Communications, and intellectual property law. ELR is student edited and published at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles.

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review (Law Reviews)

ISSN 0277-5417

The Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review (ILR) is a student-run publication dedicated to the advancement of legal scholarship, the resolution of contemporary legal problems, and the continuing education of the legal community. The Review publishes three issues each academic year. In addition, the Review runs the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) Project. The Project hosts a public database of cases rendered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and publishes an online journal of articles that summarize Inter-American Court decisions.

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (Law Reviews)

ISSN 0147-9857

The Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review promotes scholarship in the national legal community by publishing articles and critical analyses on developing areas of law. Known as LLR on the LMU Loyola Law School campus, the Law Review is a quarterly journal featuring articles by prominent educators, judges, attorneys, and Loyola students.

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal publishes peer-reviewed selected proceedings of the annual SASA conference and periodic special topics issues. The South Asian Studies Association highlights scholarly research related to South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Maldives) through the prism of multiple disciplines including history, political science, economics, communication and media studies, philosophy and religion, the arts, and archaeology.

Welcome to Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal. This open access peer reviewed journal seeks to reflect the multi-disciplinary work of the South Asian Studies Association (SASA). SASA, established in 2007, is a non profit educational association that supports academic studies and public awareness related to South Asia. You can read the mission statement here: https://sasaonline.net/mission/

Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity in School and Society (School of Education)

Welcome to Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University, the repository of the Proceedings of the different editions of the International Colloquium on Language, Culture, and Identity in School and Society.

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies (Theological Studies)

ISSN 3069-0919

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies is published by Loyola Marymount University's Department of Theological Studies.

Subsistence Marketplaces (College of Business Administration)

ISSN 2765-8058

Subsistence Marketplaces is an interdisciplinary, inter-sector (research-education-practice including business, social, and governmental sectors), international journal focused on research, education, and practice that takes a bottom-up approach to studying the broad range of low-income consumers, entrepreneurs, communities and marketplaces around the world. It is coupled with a knowledge-practice portal that will evolve in the coming months.

Our objectives are as follow:

1. To provide a forum for research, education, and practice at the intersection of a wide-range of low-income contexts and marketplaces.

2. To highlight work on subsistence marketplaces that is grounded at the micro-level or reflects ground reality and takes a bottom-up orientation.

3. To provide an ecosystem through the entire research and intervention value cycle from formulation to completion and translation to practice.

By subsistence, we refer to the wide range of low-income from extreme poverty to those at the cusp between low and lower-middle income, essentially people and communities barely meeting basic conditions for living.

We use the term “marketplaces” in its broadest and most diverse sense, meaning where goods, services, information, and ideas are exchanged, versus a meaning that restricts the focus to a physical marketplace. Such marketplaces could cover different domains of subsistence, such as health, nutrition, education, and livelihood, different geographies, and different modes, such as physical and virtual.

We emphasize an approach that begins from a bottom-up perspective of the micro-level of marketplaces, consumers and entrepreneurs, rather than the meso or macro levels. Thus, the journal welcomes a broad range of work at different units of analysis from individual to community to organization and society. Unique though will be an emphasis on grounding in the circumstances at different units of analysis. Thus, work may focus on any level of aggregation as long as it draws from grounded reality. In other words, perspectives that remain at a high altitude do not fit the journal whereas those that have connection to reality at the ground level conceptually and/or empirically fit well. We invite authors to write to the editor if there is any doubt as to fit as our goal is to be broad without diluting the unique focus.

Also unique will be an emphasis on practice with feedback on proposed studies/interventions, and a focus on translating findings to practice with specificity (e.g., such as through proposing and/or piloting specific initiatives for practice), rather than through implications that remain at a broad or generic level. Thus, implications of the work for practice will be emphasized heavily. The supporting web portal will provide a bridge between research, education and practice.