I am experiencing significant cognitively-dissonant whiplash when faced with the massive amounts of potential grant money targeted specifically at all the stuff I am working on (NIH, Robert Wood Johnson, BJS, NSF, Oh My!) in the context of a hiring freeze, bad or no food at talks (which doesn’t really matter because we can’t fly [...]
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I’m shovel-ready… but I have no stamps or toner.
Posted in the academy on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Namesakes strike again.
Posted in humor, the academy on January 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last week, Chris wrote of finding other Dr. Uggens (and Jay poked fun).* My moniker is more common-sounding than Uggen, though there aren’t as many of us as you would think. One is a college coach (rugby or lacrosse, i think), one is a former-70s t.v. actress who made an unfortunate detour into porn,** and [...]
Women and the Academy
Posted in gender, on the tenure track, the academy on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For whatever reason, I’ve always tended to hang with the boys. Even in elementary school, my mother comments that I always gravitated toward a boy as my “new friend” each year. Mr. Me was my pickup in 7th grade — we didn’t start dating until after high school but we had heaps of fun as juvenile delinquents together [...]
Academic freedom and a research institute as a “celebration” of the Bush presidency
Posted in politics, the academy on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. Apologies to the folks at SMU who, like many of us silly out-of-touch academics, think things like peer review, evidence, and some semblance of objectivity are good things in organizations designed to promote scholarship. This bothers me on a number of levels (and would for any [...]
