13 Oct SSRC application
It's grant writing season! and i, again, am stuck. So...
03 Oct Proposal Notes
As i sit here trying to understand the situation in Haiti from blogs, news, and reports that trickle out, i'm beginning to realize my dissertation doesn't make sense in the current context of the country. While my interest and focus has been on verticalized health...
29 Sep NSF Grant Season
I'm trying to put together my NSF grant. I have part of the introduction written and a start to the background bits. But what, exactly, are my research questions?1. why was Haiti such a mess before the earthquake, with regards to health? how could so...
26 Sep Disciplining displacement
I'm reading Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism today. I'm barely through the introduction, actually, but already am seeing ways to incorporate her work into what i'm hoping to accomplish some day, some how. I've been struggling lately with the criticality...
16 Sep Morality (?) and Power
We saw a preview for The Debt last night. It struck a nerve in me - one associated with our notions of morality. Had the Nazi's won, had Western Europe or even the U.S. decided they weren't so wrong, after all, their own morality would...