Lisa Bhungalia (Syracuse University) and i are organizing a paper session for the AAGs: April 9-13, 2013 - Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting: LOS ANGELES 2013 On the Question of Violence in the Humanitarian Present Organizers: Lisa Bhungalia (Syracuse University), Tish Lopez (University of Washington) Discussant: Craig Jones...
It can be easy to overdo it in the Archives. I've already typed 36 pages of notes and scanned over 200 documents. I haven't even gotten through my first box. I did not intend to scan documents - i thought i might want to copy...
I have one regret, thus far in graduate school. I haven't read enough. I look back at all the "rewards" i gave myself - a few drinks one night, a movie another, surfing the web endlessly in search of just the right cute animal picture, the...
In the past few months, there has been a seeming up-tick in mocking other disciplines or sub-fields of our disciplines (or even Geography, as a whole), and even suggestions to cut entire programs. One of the more obnoxious and recent being, of course, the piece,...
On April 30, Naomi Schaefer Riley published a piece, The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations, in the Brainstorm Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Her post was a vitriolic, acerbic personal attack on three young black women an...