Journalist – Historian – Speaker
To institutions: if you want the reputational currency of public scholars you’d better have institutional processes & courage to go with it — Tressie Mc, PhD (@tressiemcphd) May 12, 2015 Almost a year ago, I wrote about Steven Salaita being un-hired by the University of Illinois. I argued: I come to this topic not as …
I write about public engagement and the academy for the Chronicle and here on the blog. Mostly, I have talked about the ways that formal non-academic writing (opinion essays, popular books, other media outreach) and community engagement (undocumented students) function within the core mission of an academic institution and career. There are, though, more radical views. …
I have a new piece up at the Chronicle on public engagement in higher education. I’ve written about public engagement both here and on various sites before, but now I am starting a series of columns for the advice/careers section of the Chronicle. I will be writing about how both individuals and institutions could be engaging …
I’ve been at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. It’s an extraordinary event – over 3000 medievalists come to this small town and lovely campus and, over four days, work on everything from the most micro-specialized topic to giant sweeping questions about the academy and …
In the New Republic, historian Sonya Michel has written a scathing indictment (with a response and followup) of the “National Women’s History Museum,” a group dedicated to making a real museum on the Mall in D.C. According to the piece (and many other historians, including – full disclosure here – my mother), the NWHM has gone out of …