Category: Schools
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LIVE-blogging TONIGHT! – Grassroots Activism in Kansas
Check back later for live-blogging at this event TONIGHT! –> Come hear local activists and politicians Paulette Blanchard (Absentee Shawnee), Gail Finney (KS State Legislature), Fatima Mohammad (Council on American-Islamic Relations), and Stephanie Mott (Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project) talk about local feminist politics in Kansas.
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What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My PhD
This blog post originally appeared on my website on February 8, 2018. Now in my fifth year, writing my dissertation, I’ve had some time to reflect on my beginnings as a PhD student and the years preceding it when I was getting my Masters. I’ve attended the same institution for 7 years and watched […]
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A Legacy of Engagement with Zora Neale Hurston and Eatonville
The 29th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities began Saturday, January 20th with the opening of an exhibition entitled Retrospective—The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community: The Early Years, 1987 – 1997 curated by Dr. Scot French and Gramond McPherson from the University of Central Florida (UCF), Department of History. (Images from exhibit […]
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Putting the Humanities PhD to Work
I’m excited to announce that Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Theory, Practice, and Models for Thriving Beyond the Classroom is in contract with Duke University Press. The book is a project that I have been working on in one way or another ever since working with the Scholarly Communication Institute and the Scholars’ Lab at UVa. […]
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Boycott the NFL! Shame on them!
This article was written about the Colin Kaepernick situation. Feel free to comment, collectively we will find the solutions. Click here to view the article
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California Sociological Association Annual Conference
The official theme of the California Sociological Association annual meeting was “A Legacy of Sociology”: the keynote presentation was “Who Rules America?” by William Domhoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His latest work is as co-author of Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of […]
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Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and US Latina/o Digital Humanities
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (also known as “Recovery”) is an international program to locate, preserve, and disseminate the Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form (including texts from the colonial period to 1960). It is housed at the University of Houston and was founded in 1991. Its holdings include thousands […]
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CV and Cover Letter Peer Review Exercise
Originally posted on the CUNY Humanities Alliance website. On Friday, September 1, I facilitated a CV and Cover Letter Peer Review Workshop. This was similar in many ways to Workshop I did with the Futures Initiative in 2016. Typically, before the workshop, I have people submit their CV and Cover Letter to a google […]
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Book Review: Reading Compassion, Advocacy, and Understanding in Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Lower ED”
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s book Lower ED: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, Cottom makes an important intervention on the public perception of the for-profit college. Where many would take up arms against for-profit colleges for exploiting their students by charging more than public universities without real guarantees of a job after […]
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Hastac and academy commons
How will tomorrow’s university resist the intrusions of neoliberal economics? How will universities and societies optimize their growing corpuses of open data and research findings? Hastac is a great place to share knowledge and build imaginative solutions to answer these questions. Over the past two decades, a lot of attention has been given to the […]