Category: Colleges & Universities
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Michigan State University MUSE (Mentoring Underrepresented Scholars in English) Program
The Department of English at Michigan State University is once again offering Mentoring Underrepresented Scholars in English (MUSE) workshop opportunity. Please share this information with anyone you believe might be interested. This fall, the MSU Department of English will host the 2nd Annual MUSE Scholars workshop for prospective graduate students in English from October 16-20, 2019. The MUSE…
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Putting the PhD to Work—For the Public Good
I recently had the privilege of giving a joint keynote address at the Big XII Teaching and Learning Conference at the University of Texas, Austin, together with Adashima Oyo, doctoral student in social welfare, a graduate fellow in the Futures Initiative, and the director of HASTAC Scholars. Our goal in giving the talk was to…
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The Price to Pay for being a Survivor: The Need for Trauma-Informed Universities
*Trigger warning/self-care for trauma/sexual violence/possible triggers for many traumatic experiences* A few months ago, I was sitting in a graduate seminar when I saw my phone light up, notifying me of a new text message from a colleague in the program. Although my phone should’ve been away, I checked the text to read a long…
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Digital Humanities (DH) at KU – Being a HASTAC Scholar
Last month, our HASTAC scholars presented our work in the Digital Scholars’ Showcase. Please check the following link for the presentation I gave: https://prezi.com/view/BDhH0VHc8OPWfF5bHv24/ In my brief talk, I shared how I came to DH via happenstance when a classmate of mine shared their engagement with DH on campus. After meeting with the staff at…
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Arkana Peru
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Research Trip – combining workshop, archival research and DH visits!
I had the opportunity last week and this week to combine a conference on the east coast with archival research work AND visits to two digital humanities (DH) centers. The conference was an intensive southern African workshop – I received some really helpful feedback and met some amazing Africanists. It is always inspirational to…
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How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC’s Stanford Origins and the University’s Current Decision on Stanford University Press
“Austerity” When You Are Wealthier Than Just About Anyone In the wake of the decision by the President and Provost of Stanford University to either (depending on which account you read and when) kill its scholarly press immediately or bring Stanford University Press (founded 1892) to a slow death by withdrawing its $1.7 million annual…
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Digital Humanities Website Review – www.storycorps.org
StoryCorps is a non-profit organization founded with a story-telling booth in Grand Central Station, New York City, in 2003 by Dave Isay that aims to share the stories of people to remind all of us in our society of our collective humanity. Specifically, StoryCorps states that their mission is to: preserve and share humanity’s…
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Why Students Should Host Graduation Ceremonies
I’m taking a brief break from my #ProgressivePedagogy series to share a thought on graduation ceremonies. This post is the product of thinking through representations of race in film, award presentations and acceptance speeches at yesterday’s Oscars, and what I’ve learned from The New Education. I’m currently assisting as a fellow in a graduate class with Professors Cathy N. Davidson…
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Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College
** This essay is originally posted on the CUNY Humanities Alliance website: http://cunyhumanitiesalliance.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=2697&action=edit)** I am pleased to share my research paper entitled, Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College, published by the journal, Higher Education. This ethnographic study examines the complicated interlink between the…