. . . aaaaaand scene! I’ve turned in my grades for the semester, so now I can focus on grant proposals that are due waaaay too soon. (Someday I’m gonna get me some of that big humanities money, folks.) So. . .where have I been lately? I’ve been serving hard time in solitary in Grading […]
[Continue reading...]Although I very much appreciate his comments on the character of L.A. freeways, my fave moment comes at 1:46.
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Back when I was in the cube farm of academic technology, we tried an experiment within our then-new course management system: we had a large class (hundreds upon hundreds of students) pilot a mid-semester evaluation. The instructor emphasized the importance of the evaluation and reminded students to take it, but our return rate was still […]
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As a follow-up to Feminist Ryan Gosling, someone has created Public History Ryan Gosling. Check it out.
[Continue reading...]Hey, I wrote a post over on my other blog about finding a public history or museum studies graduate program that’s a good fit. Since I know many of my readers have been to grad school, and especially grad school in the humanities and social sciences, if you have a moment, I’d appreciate it if […]
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I’ve been following pretty closely the response to the pepper spraying at UC Davis, and I’ve been hoping to find time to blog about it. Unfortunately, between grant writing and grant reviewing and end-of-semester craziness, I haven’t had time to share or comment on the 75 or so tabs I have open in Firefox at […]
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In case you missed it, here’s what’s going on at my alma mater this week: . . .and here’s a screenshot of the campus’s home page: Dissonance! As you can see from the video, many students recorded these events, so if you’re interested in raising your blood pressure and righteous indignation, you can watch several […]
[Continue reading...]Historiann has thrown down the gauntlet in response to Tony Grafton’s round-up of a spate of recent books about higher ed. Near the end of his review, Grafton muses, Best of all would be for enterprising publishers to find curious writers and have them describe some universities and colleges, in detail, with all their defects. […]
[Continue reading...]If you’re interested in museums and/or internships, I have the first post in a looooong time up at Museum Blogging. Irregularly scheduled programming will resume here soon.
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Fang volunteered to portray Troy Powell, a condemned murderer who was hanged with his co-conspirator in 1951, for the Frightened Felons event at the historic Old Idaho Penitentiary. His performance was apparently, erm, memorable. As he writes in a recent blog post, the most common advice he received was “Dial it back!” Here’s his portrait […]
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