The well-substantiated racial differences in research support are yet another hurdle that scholars of color face -- one that sets many of us behind, argues Victor Ray. Read more...
Building Your Personal Brand
Just as corporations try to establish a memorable brand, Ph.D. students and postdocs seeking new opportunities should work to create a lasting impression, writes Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis. Read more...
Finding Brains in Blood and Brawn
James Pfrehm describes how cage fighting has reinspired his inner academic. That's right -- cage fighting. Read more...
The Continuing Conflict Between Mathematics and Femininity
One need only consider the cultural impact of the recent film Hidden Figures to see the need to expand our cultural understanding of who can engage in mathematics, writes Sara N. Hottinger. Read more...
The Confessions -- and Confusions -- of a First-Generation Scholar
While a huge literature exists on first-generation undergraduates, there is only silence about what happens to those students when they go on to doctoral or faculty life. Herb Childress provides an insider’s description. Read more...
Securing Funding During Graduate School
By Victor Ray. The freedom that research support brings is particularly important for radical scholars of color, writes Victor Ray, who gives advice on how to obtain it. Read more...
A New Era of Student Unrest?
By Nancy Thomas and Adam Gismondi. Colleges will undoubtedly face more student protests, write Nancy Thomas and Adam Gismondi. How can educators leverage this historic opportunity and encourage constructive, inclusive political learning and participation. Read more...
Another Side of Bob Dylan
By Scott McLemee. In Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan, Andrew McCarron faces an excess of material about his subject, not to mention more than 50 years of investigation, speculation and exegesis by obsessive fans, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...
Cruelty at the Border
By Robert Quinn. Whatever the results of legal challenges, the executive order barring travel to the U.S. from certain Muslim nations will drive foreign scholars and students to think more favorably about other -- more welcoming -- places, argues Robert Quinn. Read more...
Movements That Move the Teaching of History
By Betty M. Bayer. In the wake of the recent women’s march, Betty M. Bayer analyzes the meaning of Seneca Falls -- and its role not only in the past but also the future of women’s and gender movements around equality and racial justice. Read more...