academia

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/3/19
  

  Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

  by William Sturkey

  The University of North Carolina’s settlement over a controversial statue is a subsidy for white nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Times Higher Education
  11/21/19
  

  Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity

  by Irina Dumitrescu

  Universities preach meritocracy but, in reality, bend over backwards to protect toxic personalities. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  11/16/19
  

  In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism And Down With Enrollments

  by Brian Domitrovic

  As faculty in history departments delved anew into explorations of the economic system, the American case in particular, students took leave of instruction in history at an acute rate. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/11/19
  

  Black Perspectives Publishes Online Forum: "Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora"

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten

  An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far. 

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  11/12/19
  

  History Has a Race Problem, and It’s Existential

  by Allison Miller

  White people dominate the study of history, as students and as those who earn PhDs.

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/17/19
  

  Career Diversity and the Crisis of Grad Student Mental Health

  by Erin Leigh Inama, Sarah Stoller, and James Vernon

  The myth of the academy as a meritocracy that rewards the smartest and most talented often generates anxiety and depression.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/28/19
  

  What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts

  by Herb Childress

  Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/30/19
  

  UK's first black female history professor to research Bristol's slavery links

  Olivette Otele says she wants to ‘facilitate dialogue that needs to take place’ at University of Bristol.

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• 10/27/19
  

  “The Uplift of All” Through Nonviolent Direct Action

  by Michael Honey

  Nonviolence struggle links you backward and forward to generations of people who have changed the world and provides a personal link to others that can sustain a life of activism.

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• 10/27/2019
  

  What the Most Influential Text on Cannibalism Can Teach Us About Studying History

  by Tim Seiter

  From the Man-Eating Myth’s saga, we learn that if we focus too heavily on a single perspective while ignoring others, dangerously flawed history is bound to be produced.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/15/19
  

  Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance

  Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/19/19
  

  Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively

  The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

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• SOURCE: The Week
  9/18/19
  

  The historical profession's greatest modern scandal, two decades later

  by Bill Black

  Historians are criticized for not engaging with the public--and then criticized for how they engage when they do. Looming in the background is the Michael Bellesiles controversy. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/9/19
  

  AHA Ends First-Round Job Interviews at Annual AHA Conference

  American Historical Association ends annual meeting interviews and American Economic Association ends single hotel room interviews.

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Trollope Ploy Myth

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  What we often get wrong about the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Ivy League Problem – and the Party Divide It Signals

  by Daniel K. Williams

  Every Democratic presidential nominee for the past thirty years has had a degree from either Harvard or Yale. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/5/19
  

  Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet Created by Erin Bartram

  The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far. 

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  8/27/19
  

  Graduate Worker Organizing is Scholarly Praxis

  by Hannah Borenstein

  For many inside and outside of academia the notion that graduate students are indeed workers is not readily clear. In large part, I came to see this as mirrored through the reproduction of academia’s lack of emphasis on scholarly praxis.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/27/19
  

  Teaching in the Age of Me Too

  by Eric S. Yellin

  Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.