I had another article come out today, “Welcoming Activities That Work.” This one in Inside Higher Ed with the headline “Professors, think again before having students simply make rules on the first day of class, and instead create ways to… Read More ›
I wrote an article back in June that was published in Inside Higher Ed today. It talks about race, theory, pedagogy, and the past. In particular, it outlines suggestions for talking about race in our current historical moment. Please find it… Read More ›
Please note: I first wrote the following article in December 2019. I kept making tweaks to it and submitted it a number of places in December, in January, and in February with no takers. I thought about tweaking it to include the COIVD19… Read More ›
COVID19 has presented challenge after challenge. (And let’s not forget that our ever-more evil POTUS knew about its threat and had options to minimize its impact, but chose to ignore them.) For a blog post here, I wanted to briefly… Read More ›
My latest article is now live! History News Network published this one. It details a new activity my students in Secularisms and Atheisms did last semester. I encourage other professors to adopt the practice, too! Please give it a read, like,… Read More ›
This is the third installment in my “Big Idea Syllabus” series inspired by Dr. Michael Wesch’s “Big Idea” Syllabus for Anthropology. My “Big Idea” Syllabus for History can be found here, for Writing here. The “Big Idea” Syllabus for Gender… Read More ›
The tradition continues! We’re doing more silly ones, but here are the end-of-semester pictures for the Fall 2019! The last day of classes were before Thanksgiving this year! This semester I taught Sexuality and Queer Theory, Introduction to Women’s Studies,… Read More ›
I continue to really love office hours (and even thrive on them!), and I had another semester of wonderful and very busy office hours, even busier than last semester! Here’s the data breakdown for the Fall 2019 semester. (Added 11/29… Read More ›
