When Worlds Collide: A tale of parenting and an optimistic undergraduate
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
Tag: Academic LIfe
Doing the squiggly writing – a guest blog post
I am delighted to welcome guest blogger Charlotte Weston, who agreed to write this piece following my earlier post on Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I. These posts…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
Value, Ownership, and Cultural Goods: Regina F. Bendix to Deliver 2016 Richard M. Dorson Memorial Lecture
This is the season’s big lecture. With many heritage studies projects underway, it is a perfect time to welcome Regina back to Bloomington. Here are the details: 2016…
Confessions Of a Poverty-Class Academic-In-Training
Thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on class differences in academia. I found a lot to identify with in this essay (although, unlike the author, I became bogged down with…
Notes on Thoughtfulness in Scholarly Publishing (3): In This, I Support Elsevier
[Updated] This series began in the wake of an instance in which I, to the irritation of most observers, questioned a case of self-piracy. Soon thereafter, self-piracy was…
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep…
Its Like Woodie Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam, Only Its a Green #OA Policy for the UC System
“But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land…” Someone needs to write a song in the style of Woodie Guthrie’s tunes celebrating the impressiveness and…