A milestone: I delivered my first solo presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society conference in Boston, MA, whose theme this year was, “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia.” Like I told the participants in the paper session, I felt that as a second-year PhD student, this was a major triumph, even if I passed…
Blog posts 2014-2015: “Ahead of the Hydra”
In 2014-2015 I blogged on a number of different topics, from the use of psychometric testing in Israel to the disadvantage of Arabic-speaking minority students, to the politically charged conversation around voting rights in Texas, to Islamophobia and ESL teachers’ unique position as cultural conversation-makers. I will continue to write later this spring…in the meantime,…
