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I remember the first time I realized September 11th had become an event that would fade out of active memory and into the pages of history books, when one day, people would no longer say, “I remember where I was when September 11th happened.” I was teaching the “contemporary” half of a United States history class, […]
I have been looking back at an anonymous blog I kept in 2013 and 2014. What I found there surprised me: posts I still felt good about and posts I wish I’d never written, followed by a whole lot of wondering what I thought I was doing as I stumbled about in blogging-land. I hope I’ve I learned […]
My first piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae site is now available: Alt-Ac or Bust! I’m excited to offer these ten tips for what to do during graduate school to prepare for the possibility of looking for an alternative academic or post-academic position after graduate school, should that become necessary or desirable. Although […]
A long time ago, I wrote the following post in another blogging venue (of mine, not somewhere else), and I’m reposting this here, since it relates to an ongoing conversation on Twitter for Jennifer Polk’s #withaPhD chats. I blame the title on my religious-studies background. The Post-Ac Trinity of Transferable Skills When looking for a […]
Over the past week, as she’s continued to ask about the day and the man, I have been trying to figure out how to talk about Martin Luther King, Jr., with my five-year-old. At her school for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been impressed by how important they’ve made MLK in the children’s imaginations. She’d […]
