12 Jul Tribalism in the 21st Century
My morning started with reading Matthew Taylor's blog post, An Ambition for Peace? I don't do sports. Especially golf (really...
25 Jun Teaching Gender in Geography
I only ever took one gender / feminist course at the undergraduate level. I dropped it after three weeks. Guess who's teaching an undergraduate Gender and Geography course in the Fall? I'm actually excited. I've decided to craft it around revolution, war and terrorism. It recently...
04 Jun Teaching the tough stuff
This has been an interesting quarter. It's my first teaching on my own, and i felt that the students should own their process. So - with all the eagerness that only a naive new instructor could have, i proceeded to construct a course without construction....
04 Jun The Academy and Academic Freedom
When i came to graduate school, i admired those female faculty who had never sought, or perhaps never were granted, tenure. There was, just four short years ago, a growing dis-sentimentality about tenure. The complaints generally tended toward third-hand stories about laziness-after-tenure (LAT) - that...
26 May IDP camps in Haiti
With hurricane season right around the corner, concerns over the living arrangements of Haitians should be reaching something akin to a fever-pitch, and yet, there hasn't been much said (or done) about the 1,000 IDP camps still peppering the country. That is, until a few...