Tuesday, 23rd February 2021

Disciplines and their Cultures

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/business/economy/economics-women-gender-bias.html

Economics is, of course, far from the only discipline like this. Philosophy has often been like economics in that its public meetings can be gladiatorial, but I think it has started to recognize… Continue reading…

Friday, 6th March 2020

Why People in Underrepresented Groups Leave the University

This deserves to be spread around. I’m kind of obsessed with what I call “scholarly cognition”, which is the knowledge that is part of the embodied experience within the academy that doesn’t get included… Continue reading…

Friday, 18th October 2019

Intersectionality and Other Concepts

This is an interview with Jennifer Nash about her excellent book on intersectionality. I’m interested in the ways that concepts are created for specific purposes and then drift, or get appropriated, or get… Continue reading…

Wednesday, 6th December 2017

Remembering the Montreal Massacre

from Dec. 6, 2017

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabblecas-staff-blog/2017/12/twenty-eight-years-later-december-6-1989

28 years ago, I was teaching at Trent University and finishing my Ph.D. In the years before the internet, when you couldn’t just turn on your iPad and get… Continue reading…

Saturday, 11th November 2017

Women, Service, and Universities

from Nov. 11, 2017

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/12/women#.WgZ48EZa1Wo.facebook

Some specifics in this article about a report on womens’ experience in universities. Some of the comments add to the discussion, for a change, rather than being the usual… Continue reading…

Sunday, 24th September 2017

Gender and Entitlement

from Sept. 24, 2017

It’s really, really hard to look at yourself and think about the social forces that gave you the good things you have. It’s much easier to naturalize the world as… Continue reading…