WebCite and Transforming Academic Internet Wormholing Into Actual “Work”

There’s a current debate among cool academic people (yes, I say that ironically) about the future of public scholarship in the age of social media, collaborative online environments, and more calls for democratized research. Academics are online, sometimes when we shouldn’t be (coughselfcough). But, as of yet, what we produce on, through, and for theRead More “WebCite and Transforming Academic Internet Wormholing Into Actual “Work””

I know this young man, Jonathan Wall, and if ever one was going to class up a sports bar in the entertainment capital of a two block stretch of pavement & half-full storefronts that is the urban, urbane utopia that is Raleigh, NC, USA it would be Jonathon. Forgive me but I know this areaRead More

A very interesting note on the gender component of the UVA Hot Mess (TM)

CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges

CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges. I’m pleased to be organizing an AERA research conference, “Access, Competition, and For-Profit Colleges” in collaboration with Sandy Darity, The Research Network on Racial & Ethnic Inequality, and with generous support from the AERA Conference Grant initiative. This interdisciplinary two-day conference will convene September 21-22, 2012 at Duke University.Read More “CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges”

Alt-White in the Academy

UPDATED: ALT WHITE ACADEMICS LISTS AND ALL-STARS!! Twitter has been good to me and my academic career. So, I was very excited to see this list of academics, by discipline, for some new follows. Alas, I found the list to be very very…white for my tastes. That is, as the young people say, no shade.Read More “Alt-White in the Academy”