Public Engagement – My Essays

Here are links to my essays at the Chronicle of Higher Education (and one at Inside Higher Education) loosely organized around the theme of public engagement. A list of all my published higher education pieces is at the bottom. I return to these themes regularly on the blog as well.

My manifesto – It needs to count: Sustained Public Engagement – “But Does it Count?”  (Chronicle.com, 6/23/2014)

My Story – My Initial Public Offering (Chronicle of Higher Education,  7/22/2013)


Key pieces

• Avoiding celebrity culture and the prestige economy: A Thousand Neil deGrasse Tysons! (Chronicle Vitae, 7/21/2014)
• Public engagement from unexpected places: A Medievalist on Savage Love (Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/12/15)
• Public engagement requires protection from our institution: Don’t Speak Out: The Message of the Salaita Affair (Chronicle.com, 8/21/14). Tressie McMillan Cottom just wrote a must-read piece on this too: Everything but the Burden.
• #FergusonSyllabus (Chronicle.com, 11/25/2014) – Even a medievalist has something to say.

Other essays on public engagement for both individuals and institutions.

• Yoni Appelbaum goes From Grad School to the Atlantic (Chronicle.com, 2/11/15). He wants your pitches.
• Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, fights for the liberal arts and sciences education. University Presidents and Public Engagement (Chronicle.com, 12/18/2014)
• Colleges as institutions can engage on important issues. Here’s – No Longer “Falling off the Cliff” – College for People with Intellectual Disabilities (Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/11/14). I make a similar case here – 
• Catholic Universities and Undocumented Students (Chronicle.com, 7/21/14)
• Two medievalists write novels. It, too, should count. Fictionalizing Your Scholarship (Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/13/2014)
• Writing about Sarah Palin’s medievalism. Why and how it matters – A Medievalist on CNN (Inside Higher Ed, 7/2/2014)