Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Today I saw yet another professor complaining about students on social media. Now I am all in favor of people being able to vent, but be mindful of power. The place to vent about students is NEVER in public, but rather in person, in group chats, in slack, etc. But I do think we can …
Once upon a time the Chronicle of Higher Education created a webby bloggy site called Chronicle Vitae. The idea is that it would be Linkedin but for higher ed (I think. They never told freelancers like me!) with jobs, profiles, connections, messaging, and blog posts and I wrote a bunch of pieces for them. But it’s all offline …
When I was in graduate school, I spent three semesters in medieval historiography seminars in which the work was to weekly read a book, then write a book review, then distribute your book review and other published book reviews to the class. In this way we would educate each other about the foundational work in …