I teach three core courses: an undergraduate seminar in race, a graduate seminar in race, and a graduate seminar in digital sociology. This post is about my experience teaching the first. My academic training is in political economies and inequalities. My intellectual training has always emerged from and been filtered through an intersectional framework. That’s how I endRead More “When Your Curriculum Has Been Tumblrized”
Tag Archives: Public Sociology
The Three Rs in 2015: Reading, ‘Riting and Researching
This is the obligatory end-of-year essay. In 2015, I finished a seven-year-long research project called my doctoral dissertation. The study analyzes why for-profit colleges were the singular form of higher education expansion in the late 20th and early 21st century in the U.S. Data are from: interviews with for-profit college executives, students enrolled in the fastest-growing sub-sectorRead More “The Three Rs in 2015: Reading, ‘Riting and Researching”
Gratitude
I do my yearly assessments on my birthday because New Years Eve is trite and there’s always a surcharge for everything. My birthday has passed and I have a long list of things for which I am grateful and a long list of hills yet to climb. But this week is The Official Time ForRead More “Gratitude”
Fascism
This week we have witnessed a phenomenal act of social movement-making in an era when many, myself included, have wondered if meaningful change in the U.S. still possible. Some of that worry is about aging, I’m sure. As you get older and the people around you get older you are inclined to wonder if theRead More “Fascism”
Open and Accessible to What and For Whom? Reflections on ICDE 2015
The International Conference on Open and Distance Education was hosted by the University of South Africa this month. Paul Prinsloo put together a truly remarkable set of keynote addresses and invited me to present the opening keynote. I have more than a few reflections, many of which are probably beyond the scope of a postRead More “Open and Accessible to What and For Whom? Reflections on ICDE 2015”
How I Read “Between The World and Me”
Editors at The Atlantic invited me to review Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between The World and Me”. It’s a three week book club. Today marks the second week. The invitation came in on a Thursday, I think. The first review was to go live on the following Monday. I’m a few months out of grad school readingRead More “How I Read “Between The World and Me””
New Topics in Social Computing: Data and Education
I have the great pleasure of being in conversation with some cool folks over at Eyebeam this evening. Sava Saheli Singh, Karen Gregory and I will be talking about data and education. We’ve been sending great emails back and forth. I feel confident saying we’re all interpreting those concepts broadly and deeply. Karen gave meRead More “New Topics in Social Computing: Data and Education”
Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions
Institutions are inherently conservative. They are built to last. One way that institutions last is by diffusing threats to the status quo across org charts, rules, forms, email chains and meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. That is why it is ridiculous to expect college institutions to be radical. But, that is the claim thrownRead More “Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions”
It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying
It is hard to write while I am crying so this will be short. Plus, everybody else has already written All The Things. I just want to park a short reflection about Freddie Gray, Baltimore and our state of things more broadly. I spent the day yesterday arguing with, well, everybody (it felt like) aboutRead More “It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying”
Acknowledgements
It seemed only right that I share my dissertation acknowledgements seeing as how many of you, out there and in here, helped me on this journey. Thank you. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There simply is not enough space for me to thank the many people who helped me make it this far but that will not stop meRead More “Acknowledgements”