“And I would eliminate MLA interviews. In a half-hour interview, hiring committees learn much about …
"And I would eliminate MLA interviews. In a half-hour interview, hiring committees learn much about a job candidate — but not what they think they are learning. Instead, committees make determinations about a candidate’s gender, race, ethnicity, age,...
Universities May Be Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Graduate Students – The Atlantic
Universities May Be Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Graduate Students – The AtlanticUniversities themselves may be contributing to burnout.This was posted on Google+
Moving toward Collective Liberation II: Sanctuary
The question of sanctuary is a salient one for our current times. What could it and should it mean? How might we think of sanctuary and intersecting identities? The actions of the current political administration have left many LGBTQ people in our community with deep...
The Alchemy of Academic Inspiration
The Alchemy of Academic Inspiration The smallest interactions with students can have profound effects. This was posted on Google+Book
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.