Shorts
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
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Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
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Why Can’t You Just Keep Doing Your Research on the Side?
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Frankly, even if I could, I wouldn’t want to.
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Who Do Historians Write For?
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“I want my reader to enjoy reading it as much as I want to challenge myself writing it.”
Science
A Social Network Born Of Social Distancing
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Scholars of science, technology, and medicine who are building a new community from the ground up.
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Why Can’t You Just Get A Job At Your Partner’s School?
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If an academic couple can’t get a partner hire, they’re faced with a life-changing choice.
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How Do You Publish A Book Off The Tenure Track?
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Publishing off the tenure-track is possible, but not without its challenges.
Features
Ground Operations
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I had already completed my freshman year when I first learned what an adjunct was.
Shorts
Organize or Perish
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The pandemic has shown what happens when universities assume they don’t need to answer to graduate students.
Shorts
Public Health
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Loving an alcoholic who is a renowned expert on substance abuse is debilitating.
How I Do History
How Naomi Rendina Does History
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“I wrote my entire dissertation between the hours of 10 PM and 3 AM.”
Featured in Category
Expressions Of Radical Hope
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My agency in choosing modes of expression must extend to my students.
Reviews
Radical Hope and a Liberal Education
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What is the purpose of education? Is it just to fill jobs with skilled workers?
Reviews
Contingency Is Not Complacency
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Just as Gannon calls for seeing students as humans we can trust, we also need to humanize and trust adjuncts.
Reviews
Kevin Gannon’s “Radical Hope”: A Roundtable Introduction
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The book is a call to arms, and more necessary than ever.
How I Do History
How Chris Deutsch Does History
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“No one listens unless we tell a good story, so we try to tell good stories.”
Shorts
What About The Bad Job Offers?
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After finishing a doctoral program, the goal for many has always been a tenure-track job offer. But what about really terrible offers?
Features
The White Background
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The SHEAR controversy has only exposed structural problems within the wider historical profession.
Features
History Now
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How is the pandemic shaping the work of history and the lives of those who do that work?
Features
Escape from New York (and from Columbia University)
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This is the way the American century ends.
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Why Do Historians Go To Conferences?
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Packs of historians roam the streets, name tags flapping in the breeze, only to disappear into hotel conference rooms for hours at a time. What are they doing in there? And why?
Features
Bringing Academics To The Table
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What happens when academics collaborate with the restaurant industry? Good things (and better food).
Shorts
Why Has Transphobia Gone Mainstream in Philosophy?
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Is philosophy uniquely hostile to trans people? No. It is hostile to marginalized people in general.
Shorts
A Brief History of Trans Philosophy
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Philosophy has long been something done to trans people, not by them.
Mailbag
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
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Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
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How Much Money Do Historians Make From Their Writing?
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In general, academic writing doesn’t earn you anything, and most of the time, it costs you.
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What Are the Different Kinds of College Faculty?
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Their jobs and salaries may differ, but you should still call them “Professor.”
