Far behind and loving it
I’m still in post-travel work-lag, which for me lasts longer than jetlag. Not including personal projects I have student work to read, journal editing to do, union stuff, university governance projects, follow-ups to this weekend’s conference, several side projects (one of them suggested by someone who wants me to be more effective at journal editing-thanks […]
Richard Vedder’s manifesto
Richard Vedder’s “report” Over Invested and Under Priced will probably get some play in the press over the next few days (though the short Thanksgiving week will probably swallow most education stories this week), and in my view it is probably best to see it as Vedder’s manifesto: what’s wrong with higher education and what […]
The gender of early social-science clientele(s)
Some of the discussion on the “Social Reform and Social Science in Chicago and Beyond” panel focused on the relationship between social sciences and social reform movements. Neither Jane Addams nor Myles Horton did their work as disinterested social scientists—far from it. Addams may have been a sort-of-elitist social progressive, but she used city residents […]
Needed: a model of peer-reviewing interactive projects
One of the sessions at the Social Science History Association was organized by several members of the H-Net Council about Web 2.0 and the teaching of history. I was the chair and had a marvelous time listening to others and serving as traffic cop an identifier of speakers. (I also got my two cents’ worth […]
Chicago and social movements: blogging a conference
This weekend I am at the Social Science History Association, and the current session on Chicago and social-science research is one of the sessions that combine a national academic conference with a local context. After all, we’re meeting in Chicago this weekend. The first paper by Victoria Brown was about Jane Addams and is part […]