Along with speaking, writing, researching, consulting and mocking professional pundits that wear ascots, I also teach. I am very excited to be writing a syllabus for a stratification course, to be taught in the Spring. I took to Twitter earlier today to crowdsource some of the excellent sociology tools that have floated across my timelineRead More “Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification”
Tag Archives: Grad School
When You Are The Demographic You Study: Interrogation of Self versus Going Native
One of my least favorite academic concepts is the anthropological “going native“. This idea that one can become so immersed in the culture or phenomena one is studying that they lose objectivity is rife with cultural, imperialist, racist ideas of knowledge, understanding, and science. But, I have to give anthropology credit for at least articulatingRead More “When You Are The Demographic You Study: Interrogation of Self versus Going Native”
Who’s Afraid of Post-Racist?
I called your attention to the following post at orgtheory.net a few weeks ago. At the time I took issue with the construction of Fabio’s argument and used the opportunity to call, again, for some critical interrogation of race in organizational theory. Fabio has returned to defend his original post and so I’ve decided toRead More “Who’s Afraid of Post-Racist?”
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 April. The talk is based on my experiences of using social media to talk back to powerful organizations. You can likely intuit the case study.Read More “Upcoming Talks”
Being Prodigious Is For White Men: The Productivity Penalty
I have likely been writing this post my entire life. Recently, a friend was excited to complete a very complex, important project ahead of time and on budget. She presented said project to her superiors and was crushed when they not only failed to recognize the minor miracle she had pulled off but when theyRead More “Being Prodigious Is For White Men: The Productivity Penalty”
Conferences, Cuts, Honors and Reflection On My Voice
The past two weeks have been dominated by higher education cuts, conferences, writing, and massive reading. In short, I’ve been busy being a graduate student in the U.S. As Emory University continues to navigate the aftershock of deep cuts to liberal arts programs at the undergraduate and graduate level, my intellectual home feels like momRead More “Conferences, Cuts, Honors and Reflection On My Voice”
Emory U Joins Coursera & I’m A Debbie Downer
Today, Emory University joined about a 100 other universities in partnership with Coursera. It was probably pretty poor timing for Emory, though. Just this week the administration announced that they are cutting undergraduate and graduate programs in education, Spanish, Russian, visual arts, educational studies, and interdisciplinary liberal arts. Some of those will be restructured. MostRead More “Emory U Joins Coursera & I’m A Debbie Downer”
Emory University Students Plan Meeting to Discuss Program Cuts: Details
Per a notice from Facebook please note the following is happening Monday, Sept 17th at Noon in the Quad at Emory University: Discussion of LGS decisions Public Event · By Luke Donahue Monday 12:00pm Dear all: there will be a meeting on the quad at noon on Monday to mobilize andRead More “Emory University Students Plan Meeting to Discuss Program Cuts: Details”
Emory University’s Program Cuts Get Ahead of The Curve
I had a plan for the next blog post which rarely happens. I’m a one-and-done kinda girl on this space. I write it when I write it and I move on. I rarely plan or edit, which is likely obvious but whatever. But this week a minor kerfuffle at law school blog Above the LawRead More “Emory University’s Program Cuts Get Ahead of The Curve”
All Your Skinfolk Ain’t Kin Folk?
That’s what my spirit animal, Zora Neale Hurston, is quoted as saying: “All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk.” My experiences in academe have been…a textbook case of everything that could happen would happen. That includes a rocky start in a different program and a transfer and yadda, yadda, yadda. Needless to say my experiences primedRead More “All Your Skinfolk Ain’t Kin Folk?”