It’s not every day I learn from a local TV station’s website that my university has launched a new college: Boise State University announced Monday that it is building a “business garden” in the form of a new college in the capital city in hopes of “growing” a better business community in Idaho. President Bob […]
[Continue reading...]Just wanted to highlight a couple of things that have been keeping me busy. First, there’s a post for the Western Museums Association blog on developing museum professionals in the Intermountain West. Second, I’m soft-launching the Boise Wiki next week by giving a talk about it. I’ll post more about the wiki once I’ve figured out […]
[Continue reading...]As I wrote in an earlier post, this year I’m participating in Marci Glass’s STARward project, in which participants reflect on a word given to them by Marci. As luck would have it, I drew the word calling. “Calling” would be a good word for me in any year, but it’s especially apt for this year. […]
[Continue reading...]I have a piece up at The Blue Review on Wikipedia, Ancestry.com, and the gendering of digital public history. Here’s an excerpt: Engendering Online History Wikipedia vs. Ancestry.com: Historianship at a crossroads Businessweek reports that “genealogy ranks second only to porn as the most searched topic online.” It’s no wonder, then, that Ancestry.com, which for a monthly […]
[Continue reading...]I promised a series of posts on gun violence, and so far I’ve only written two: one on the intersection of guns and whiteness and another on Christian responses to the Sandy Hook massacre. There will likely be more posts coming, as I’m still reading pretty extensively on gun ownership and gun violence in the […]
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Intellectual and vocational theme of the semester: Charismatic megafauna, literal and metaphorical I haven’t been writing much here, but I’ve been writing elsewhere, and I hope to soon have a few links to share to pieces in a couple of bloggish venues, as well as to a journal article. So. . . how about an […]
[Continue reading...]I’ve spent much of the past several days working on my piece on Ancestry.com and Wikipedia.org. (Many thanks to those of you who commented on my last post.) I’ve been asked to target that article to an Idaho audience, which means I find myself searching Wikipedia and Ancestry for topics related to Idaho history. Although […]
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Since I had to take Lucas to school anyway this morning, I decided to stop by the office for some focused time, pneumonia be damned. Unfortunately, 90 minutes into my productive e-mail session, Fang texted to warn me about the newly falling snow and to suggest I get on the roads sooner rather than later. […]
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Today I was prescribed a third round of antibiotics for pneumonia. Anyone want to place bets on how functional I’ll be when classes begin on January 22? Or when I need to get back to working on some key collaborations on Monday? Meanwhile, I’m still crossing plenty of items off my sedentary to-do list, and […]
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It’s no secret that when it comes to religion, I’m a skeptic. That said, I’m not a belligerent atheist; I’m a listener, not a combatant. In fact, several believers have been surprised by my atheism and remarked that despite my lack of Christian faith, I have “a deep soul.” Most recently, a fundamentalist Christian student […]
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