Thinking about blogging topics after the Victoria II series is done. Want to gauge interest in some 'life in academia' topics, particularly: 1) What is grad school like in the academic humanities? 2) What is the job market like (beyond just 'bad')? 3) What is adjunct-life like?
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Thinking now is about the right time of year too, since grad school application season is coming up to tackle these. They're kind of related, really. Thoughts? Is this worth discussing on the blog or too inside-baseball?
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
There’s already lots of stuff by academics for academics. A real strength of your blog is explaining the stuff that the intelligent public is interested in but doesn’t know much about.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @portusprince
Yeah, this would absolutely be explaining these things for people who are not academics but would like to understand how parts of academia work either because they want to become academics, or out of curiosity.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @portusprince
a good bridge might be how the shifting economic landscape of higher ed affects the incentives for scholars to engage with the public? I remember David Graeber (RIP) very strongly lamenting that anthropologists don't really write for anybody outside their sub-specialties anymore
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this was in the context of "hey, there's a lot of really fascinating work going on that's not getting much if any play outside the field, and public discourse around issues related to the field is still grounded in cliches that were already outdated half a century ago"
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @ArbysMakesFries ja @BretDevereaux
We don’t practice it. It really is a skill to both (a) write something that doesn’t require a huge amount of prior knowledge to understand, and (b) not simply write an introduction to the subject.
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Ironically, my sense is that historians practice more to write to the public than most academics. The big problem here is that in theory academics will do what the job market, tenure committees and prestige dictate - and they do not value field-to-public writing.
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Even as entire disciplines begin to wither on the vine for lack of public support, you still see the widespread view that people engaged in field-to-public scholarship are doing something 'lesser' than those doing in-field specialist research.
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