My travel schedule in both the near and far term is becoming abbreviated. In the short term, I am canceling two trips to Orlando I had planned for the next two weeks because I've had a cold this weekend and know my limits (or at least need to start behaving as if I know them). It's either that or sh...

In preparation for Women's History Month, bloggers Historiann, Notorious Ph.D., Tenured Radical, and Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel are joining forces to discuss Judith M. Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism.Each Monday in March, this team of......

AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go It’s hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and energy as an exploitable resource [From Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go - Chronicle.com ] —— I think this should n...

Nathan Yau is not Edward Tufte. Yau is a doctoral student in statistics. Tufte is a Yale professor emeritus. Yau's list of his 5 best data visualization projects of 2008 has a common missing element (from four of the listed projects) that E.T. would pull tufts of hair out over: the images have no qu...

"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," an article in yesterday's New York Times, outlines the potential religious significance of a centuries-old stone tablet that "may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days." The article quotes Dani...

It looks like faculty at USF are "getting off" lightly in terms of layoffs by almost any measure. I have some questions remaining about the choices available to my institution, but the position of faculty here is better than USF staff and better than those who work in other sectors hit hard by the r...

In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of   W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet , available on line. In this talk, "The Noose and the Cross: Race, Religion, and the Redemption of Violence in the W...

Let me preface the remarks below with a simple fact of working in a huge university: There are hundreds of colleagues who are better read than I am, hundreds who work longer hours, hundreds who are more organized, hundreds who are wiser, hundreds who are more clever, hundreds who have published more...

I fucking love the Gawker.  It is a much better guilty pleasure than the rage-inducing-Full House reruns I used to consume. I.  From today's Gawker: 'Memo: In Sweeping Policy Change, 'LATimes' Alerts Staff Britney Is Now 'A Big Deal'' It's info-tanment, y'all.  And good lord, it took ...

In what has to be the perfect marriage between cluelessness and greed, my law school sent me a holiday greeting e-mail asking me for money. Admittedly my ire is unique to those who are asked for money from their professional school prior to finding a job which will permit them to to enter that profe...