Journalist – Historian – Speaker
After the NEH cancelled overseas summer seminars, I requested two sets of documents via FOIA. You can read all about the context here (article over at the Chronicle), here (collection of comments on how important the program is), and here. My FOIA requests were: All documents (I listed many types) about the cancellation of the summer seminar. …
The NEH assumption is that the overseas summer seminar program is done, dead, buried, and finished. They have decreed it so, in their imperial majesty, while hiding culpability and process. In response, the most prestigious academic organizations need to take stands, rather than letting this just slide away into fait accompli. I’m pleased to say …
I’m still waiting on documents to arrive for the NEH as I’d like a much clearer assessment of who is making decisions over there. I’m angry, as well, that they aren’t more forthcoming. The NEH belongs to us. It belongs to everyone who has participated in an NEH program or applied for one. It belongs …