Tomorrow i'm giving a talk about the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Latin America. It's difficult not to feel like an impostor, but it's something that i'm passionate about, even as i lack any deep knowledge on the subject. The students in the class...
I wrote about the support to bring Aristide to Haiti earlier this week. This is a follow up to that post. I received a link to an open letter posted in The Guardian the other day to an open letter that has been signed by a...
I have not been following celebrity news - beyond the 30 seconds i stand in line at the grocer's. And while Charlie Sheen's delightful photos and the teasing one-liners were mildly entertaining, it never occurred to me to actually read any of the tasty bits...
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...
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...