The news came the other night, as i finished up: Aristide was finally granted a passport renewal. After 7 years in exile in South Africa, Jean-Bertrand Aristide is looking homeward again. On February 4th, the World Federation of Democratic Youth, an anti-imperialist movement that has been...
I was asked to fill in today as the professor was at a Chair's meeting with the Dean. I had a plan: talk about the Haitian Revolution in the context of the Age of Revolution and in relation to the American and French Revolution. I...
T.H. Marshall’s rather utopian vision of the growing inclusiveness in citizenship projects was premature, at best. In the 1950’s, at the time of his writing, social welfare was hierarchically organized decrying the reality of a universalist social citizenship. And while women, ethnic minorities, differently abled...
Grant writing is one of the more difficult aspects of graduate school. Made all the worse by pressures of knowing that grant-ability is probably going to be more and more a piece of the hiring puzzle as funds for departments get thinner. I had a...
Today i was told to Fuck Off for trying to explain that there is no such thing as Truth and Facts. I quote: I'm sure that years of training on how to debate words like, real or true or factual, can make you feel superior...