I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about race and diversity in the department (and the discipline more widely). They...
I've been turned down for funding 10 times. I have only one more application in review, and then, that's it. In the meantime, i've had two articles rejected. I used to be indignant, now ...
I stumbled on a delightful (word choice?) piece by Ansel Adams about How to Write About Haiti. The comments at the end of the piece are really quite insightful and led to Binyavanga Wainaina's piece in Granta, How to Write About Africa. I think these will...
I don't talk about what i study outside of a few spaces because it really isn't good dinner conversation. I think it should be the fourth, really - politics, religion, money, militarization of humanitarian aid. But i broke my own rule the other day, and...
The Independent released the results of an independent study. Citing the World Economic Forum's assertion that in most of the world's countries, conditions for women are improving, the article then lists, nope, reveals, the "best and worst places to be a woman"...