Monthly Archives: January, 2013
What’s In A Name? Robert Lee Mitchell III and Arrianna Marie Coleman
Last week I logged into to Twitter to see two friends and colleagues in a debate about prestige and grades. I asked them, incredulously, who cared about grades in graduate … Continue reading
Upcoming Talks
I said this would be the semester I don’t go to every conference. Promises, promises. It looks like I will be the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference in Greensboro this … Continue reading
Towards A Critical Org Theory
Contemporary stratification scholars are unlikely to deny the claim that organizations are the primary site of the production and allocation of inequality in modern societies. Although there is considerable consensus … Continue reading
There Is No Race in Organizations
I continue to work on a comparative case of organizational structures in higher education. T’is what I do. Central to my theorizing and empirical work is that organizations reproduce racial, … Continue reading
Dear Parents, Thanks for the Humans. Signed, Society.
I do not have a living child. That fact has made graduate school somewhat easier for me than it is for my colleagues with children. That is something Melonie Fullick … Continue reading
The “Future” Of Higher Education?
The 20 Million Minds Fund is sponsoring a talk on the future of higher education today. I’ve followed sporadically on twitter (#20mmreboot). My comrade Audrey Watters is doing a solid … Continue reading
Atlanta Sexes: Double Dipping in Manufactured Controversy?
This will be a drive-by post because, well, graduate school. But, I was struck today by an interesting article at The Atlantic. I’ve talked here before about the organizational logic … Continue reading
