One of my students contacted me about a week ago and asked me if she could send along a list of questions for me to answer about my career and about my life’s decisions. I told her that was perfectly fine, and I started answering them as soon as they landed in my inbox. But [...]
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be historians. I’ve come up with a whole shtick about how awful the job market in history is. It’s a way of deflecting, I guess, a way of not having to talk about the gigantic question mark that is my future (career-wise, at least). Of the ten [...]
I was reading Perspectives the other day and came across an obituary for a really fantastic historian. She died a few months ago and I had no idea. I read part of her obituary aloud to John and remarked at how shocked I was at her passing. John nodded and asked what kind of history [...]