We know of the Red Scare. On campus, anticommunism during World War I and after World War II led to fired faculty and silenced opposition. Today we live in the Gun Scare. If professors speak out against the NRA, they are drummed out of their...
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Over at Monkey Cage, Andrew Gelman has an excellent piece on how post-publication peer-review works (and doesn't) in the blogosphere. One of the central themes (to me) is how complacency.
Claire Potter has her Ten Commandments of Graduate School, all of which I recommend highly. Thou shalt not rack up unnecessary credit card debt. You may need to take out.
I don't want to steal anyone's thunder or appear to be piling on, but one aspect of Hugo Schyzer's "confession" strikes me as especially problematic, especially at a time in which the humanities are under assault from well-funded conservative forces: his claim of academic fraudulence....
Academics face increasing problems in dealing with academic publishing. This is especially true in the book-driven fields of history and anthropology, where because dissertations are now archived online, publishers don't.
Leon Wieseltier asks the right question in his graduation speech at Brandeis: "Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there.
Blogging at you today from the 2013 International Studies Association Conference in San Francisco, California. If you're currently enjoying ISA, please consider stopping by the International Studies Blogging Reception, which should include blogger types from Monkey Cage, Duck of Minerva, and LGM. A few random...
I've been sitting on this post for over 20 months; writing it, editing it, deleting it, writing it again. It was initially inspired by a book review written by Stanley.
Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with.
With MOOCs, the future is clearly what happened to the French Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Fire all the tenure track professors, replace them with adjuncts, and continue offering the minor (or major as the case may be). Dare the professors to do something about...
As you may remember, last summer, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia attempted to push out UVA President Teresa Sullivan, basically because the corporate hacks on the.
We have a small M.A. program in history at URI. I sit on the graduate committee. Some of the letters of recommendation I have read are truly appalling in their.