“In the little affairs of university life I am alarmed by those who jet themselves through issues and arguments with a burning moral conviction. The result is nearly always bad: if there is someone else burning with an opposed flame, then nothing gets done; alternatively decisions are taken in the white heat of moral virtue, [...]
Some pieces to be reused in teaching, etc. In the “I always thought this would make a good study oh hey somebody’s already done it”: “More diversity in view books than the colleges they represent”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/02/viewbooks (quipped one student: its all hot chicks and minorities) Also, a new study on “relationship violence among undergrads”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/08/violence. Good to [...]
A helpful report on the state of the art on the doctorate from the Carnegie foundation. The book is available from Josey Bass but “the condensed version”:http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/dynamic/publications/elibrary_pdf_678.pdf is available as well.
In case you were wondering where to find citations for the work of Michel Callon, there are pretty extensive lists “here”:http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/Perso/Callon/ and “here”:http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/index.php?page=PChercheurs&lang=&IdM=2
An interesting point of view on ‘SLOs’ by “Gerald Graff at Inside Higher Ed”:http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/21/graff Oh and one more thing: “Thomas Popkewitch”:http://www.education.wisc.edu/ci/faculty/details.asp?id=popkewitz — interesting author on educational issues.
“Passion gap”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/07/grad — keeping grad students’ eyes on the prize: the joy of research.
The European Group for Organization Studies (aka ‘EGOS’) has a “website”:http://www.egosnet.org/ and publishes the journal “Organization Studies”:http://oss.sagepub.com — there is a “free issue”:http://oss.sagepub.com/content/vol27/issue12/ available. Interesting stuff.
There is a nice “TLS piece on the new translation of Madness and Civilization”:http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25347-2626687,00.html. It spends a lot of time dissing Foucault’s scholarship, which is sort of interesting if you read Foucault for the ‘theory’ and have been going along assuming that it wouldn’t matter if “everything Foucault said was wrong”:http://www.springerlink.com/content/nh4t51v6u2681102/.
When I was a graduate student one of the other graduate students had stuck the following quote from Max Weber on the door of their office in big black letters: Academic life is a mad hazard. If the young scholar asks for my advice the responsibility of encouraging him can hardly be borne. Do you [...]
“Philip Smith”:http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/smith/ … Oh sorry… that should be a Dukheimian _studying_ the panopticon!
Inside Higher Ed is running another op-ed piece of mine entitled “stepping onto the tenure track”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/09/19/golub. This actually marks a bit of a change of my relationship with the site — I’ll now be publishing a regular monthly column with them called “tenure tracked” and I’ll now officially be called a ‘columnist’. As far as [...]
The two most exciting things that happened to me today were meeting the person who buys all the anthro books for my uni’s library and the “hot new library homepage”:http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/index.html which is so superior to the “terrifying older version”:http://libweb.hawaii.edu/index.htm. Yeah library!
Note to self: next time I teach about plolygyny in class, be sure to use “Michelle Cottle’s”:http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060501&s=cottle050306 recent piece in TNR to spur discussion.
After complaining in print a month or so ago, I can now report that I am the proud recipient of “a chili pepper”:http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/SelectTeacher.jsp?sid=403&orderby=TLName&letter=G at Ratemyprofesor.com.
A state auditor has released “a report”:http://www.state.hi.us/auditor/Reports/2005/05-15.pdf on the state of UH finances which is universally being described as “sharp” and which claims UH “cannot fully ensure fiscal accountability.” The university has published a “response”:http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/eaur/govrel/otherdocs/SystemFinAuditPhI-12-2005.pdf. A nice summary of these two documents is available from “UH News”:http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20051230114534.
The amazon.com reviews of “David Hasslehoff’s album”:http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B00005Q8UG/102-8716047-1531308?SubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82 are an inspiration to all of us. Very Guy Debord. A little bit ago I blogged about — or meant to — Reed’s decision not to cooperate with U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings because they were not actually a decent measure of, well, anything. Even so, [...]
The Chicago School of Sociology is always something that I’ve wanted to get a better grasp on, but moving to Hawaii has moved this up my priority list. Although many don’t realize it, the sociology department at the University of Hawaii was basically established by University of Chicago Ph.D.s and a lot of the early [...]
W00t! After semesters of teaching I am now finally an official professor: I have “a rating at ratemyprofessor.com”:http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=753498! Apparently I am a good teacher, although exactly why is still a little unclear. Indeed, sometimes the comments verge on the enigmatic, such as the line “one of the books he has chosen for the class is [...]
The New York Times reported today that “Wayne Booth”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/books/11booth.html passed away yesterday. In addition to sharing a university, Wayne and I had another connection — I worked as his personal assistant troubleshooting problems with his computer at home. For much of graduate school I supported myself by working in computing in various ways, including make [...]
I’m happy to announce that I got an email today from the American Anthropological Association informing me that I have received second place in their essay contest “How will AnthroSource transform anthropological scholarship?” for my essay “AnthroSource — actually useful?”:http://savageminds.org/2005/05/24/anthrosource-actually-useful/. Maybe I would have gotten first if I had answered more enthusiastically in the affirmative? [...]
I’m very pleased to announce that I have been selected to become a member of the AnthroSource Steering Committee. “AnthroSource”:http://www.anthrosource.net/ is the American Anthropology Association’s version of JSTOR and they (or, I guess now I should say ‘we’) are trying to build it out into something new and wonderful. While I have some competency thinking [...]
After some searching through the Oregonian’s painfully organized website I was able to fish up “Gail Kelly’s obituary”:http://www.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/obits/112514055358120.xml&coll=7. It’s remarkably brief and quite a counterpoint to the responses I’ve received to my blog entry to her.
In a weird sort of an inversion of an internet quiz site, I’m writing a summary of my teaching evaluations for the anthro department at UH Manoa, where I taught over the summer (this is the only place I’ve taught where I give them the summary rather than the other way around). Anyway I never [...]
(I just got this from the department secretary so it looks like the end times have indeed begun): AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Dissertation Defense of *Alex Golub* “Making The Ipili Feasible: Imagining Global and Local Actors at The Porgera Gold Mine, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea” will be held Monday, June 6, [...]
Reed’s Dean of Admissions discusses what his institution will “do about the new SAT”:http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/05/25/marthers. I had a chance to visit the school a few weeks ago at the same time as Ward Churchill and asked a few students about it. Their take on Churchill was insightful and very in keeping with the school’s distinctive outlook [...]
I spent a couple of years of my life working more or less full-time in computing — mostly in the unglamorous job of desktop support. This occasionally resulted in me being given unrestricted access to the computers, offices, and apartments of several famous professors and administrators. I was granted access to this sort of thing [...]
“Kerim”:http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2005/05/13/david-graeber/ and “Biella ‘m4dd0g’ Coleman”:http://healthhacker.org/satoroams/archives/000744.html#000744 have already publicized “what Yale is doing to David Graeber”:http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=7834 so I won’t repeat it here. I haven’t read “his book”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312240457/qid=1116118035/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-6229466-0987309 but I have met David and remember him as funny, articulate, and approachable. What is more, he is also amazingly erudite — an example of the sort of deeply-learned [...]
Two cool things. First: fellow UofC alumn “Marc ‘Fertilizer Has Brought Poison’ Auslander has a blog”:http://www.bjournals.com/users/mausland/ over at Brandeis, where he teaches. Second: “everybody at Brandeis has (or could have) a blog”:http://www.bjournals.com/ thanks to the ginormous LiveJournal install that the computer users group has got over there. That is awesome. I wonder if the amount [...]
I pressed ‘export to PDF’ and twenty seconds later Open Office produced a 437 page PDF of my dissertation. This isn’t the end of course. There is still the defense and then depositing. However, the big push is over. It’s too bad really — I was just starting to feel like it was coming together… [...]
On 4 April I posted Tommy’s very smart and funny “Major Anglophone Anthropology Departments as Fashion Brands”:http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=381 table on my website, where it was received with thunderous silence — at least in the comments (I can’t be bothered to check my server logs to see who is reading the blog these days, since this takes [...]