My immediate, unedited reaction to Obama’s speech is one of muted disappointment, slightly underwhelmed. I loved the section on Martin Luther King Jr. and liked that he addressed social divides (abortion, gun control, gay marriage). Other than that, it felt pretty “typical” to me. I think my reaction on this is a good thing, however [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Obama
Posted in politics on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Job Market Negotiation
Posted in job market, on the tenure track on August 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m on a panel next week on negotiations for the academic job market. As usual, it’s isn’t terribly clear to me why I was asked but I agreed because I like to be helpful… Here is what I think I will say, comments from others are much appreciated.
Is the offer fair? Before you think about [...]
Thanks
Posted in adventures with child on August 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to all who commented and emailed on my last post regarding Junior and autism. I struggled with whether to write it at all and am most glad that I did. It’s been helpful to hear from all of you about the maybe mild autistics in your lives who are attending college, getting married, making [...]
Pub Criminology at Contexts
Posted in blogging on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Contexts (ASA’s magazine bringin’ sociology to the masses)* has established a blogging section. In addition to the Contexts Crawler, there are also blogs on particular topics, including technology, Lisa and Gwen’s Sociological Images, and public criminology. You can also apply to blog for Contexts.
Read it, love it, comment. Uggen’s doing the pub crim blog but [...]
Calling Erv?
Posted in adventures with child on August 22, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I had decided not to blog this but, frankly, I’m struck by the sociology, writing helps me, I have nothing to say that is work-related, and I have begun receiving emails asking WITW NSP is…
Junior is well on her way to an autism diagnosis. She has been assessed through our health insurance, the school district, [...]
Post-ASA Jet Lag
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Much fun was had by all at ASA. I went to two fantastic sessions and two appalling ones, the rest were fairly mundane. I’m still too jet-lagged to say much but:
Presentations are an advertisement for your paper, not the full paper. If the audience feels that they may be tested on the material later (and [...]
Networking and Minority Scholars
Posted in conferences, crime, race on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is an interesting discussion unfolding on The General Blog of Crime regarding minority scholars. The American Society of Criminology lists a directory of minority scholars on its main web page. The list, *I think*, is meant to recognize the achievements of minority scholars, allow media to easily find minority scholars to comment on crime [...]
