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Happy New Year! Hello friends! It's been eons (well, almost a full year) since I've posted here. But as I'm processing 2024 and planning for 2025, this blog feels like...

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Week of March 4 While the university logins are being restored, here are some resources for the week ahead. HIST-3476 Crime & Punishment: 4 March, Gender & Crime slides (P...

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Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie in Kelly Oliver’s new historical mystery To celebrate the Bookbub deal on my new Fiona Figg Mystery—only $1.99 June 1st-3rd—I’m reprinting part of an interview I did with The California Herald abo...

An Emma Overdose Similarly to February 2011 and 2016, I was craving some Jane Austen this month, but it looks like I went completely overboard this year! ;-P When I finally...

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Medievalism, and migration Today, at Forest Lawn Cemetery, a roundtable on medievalism. Also: I will be migrating to Wordpress and taking this up again, as part of my whole attempt ...

The perverse incentives of academia Have you written a book before? I'm trying and it is about as bad as I feared it would be. I love the topic, and that's keeping me going, but it is such...

Wrong wrong wrong I was working on something today that suddenly brought me back to a meeting I had about a decade ago. I was working as a researcher but also teaching as a ...

Monthly Greening: Shampoo and conditioner As a sort of New Year's Resolution, I thought that I would try adopting one new effort at living in a more environmentally conscious way every month. We al...

Like a Sisyphus -- I can't go on; I'll go on I've been in a contemplative mood over the past couple of weeks, and I'm sure regular readers can understand why. With the massive amount of activity on th...

I'm back. Does anyone read blogs anymore? It took a year for me to find the access to this account once I changed computers. Everything is the same, except I dug in ...

This election, choose your own adventure—or Trump will choose Westworld for you You can have Trump’s Old West fun times or Clinton’s new frontier. Spoiler alert: One ends badly for most of us. I’ve become an avid watcher of the new HBO...

The directorship Thank you so much for all the hellos and welcome backs! Here's today's installment. Late last spring I was super excited to apply for a directorship posit...

Some Things I'm Reading on the Internet I wish I could disagree with this, but . . . yeah A very useful perspective on respectability politics that I will immediately link for my students since w...

Sometimes I hate collaborations Dear Collaborator, When you agreed to review my last submitted manuscript, I stupidly thought you would actually review it prior to resubmission. This res...

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Overnight Research Trip Yesterday, I took a two-day research trip to a nearby university that has most of the books and databases that I need for my PhD thesis research. My big qu...

Tap, tap, tap! Is This Thing On? So, I got an email from Historiann the other day, and she alerted me to the fact that I haven’t posted on this here blog since December. No, I have not be...

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Online teaching #2 I was going to write an in-depth reflection about my first online teaching experience, but it will have to wait a few days. Today, the only thing I can say...

Here's your reading list for the week I've been blogging up a storm over at The Papercraft Lab, so I thought you might like to see what I wrote. Nine numerical facts about nine years My secret...

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2013: Year End Meme What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before? Gave a talk at a national conference. Did you keep your 2013 resolutions, and will you make more this...

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Final post Here's the final update: I had hoped I'd be saying either 1) I got a good job or 2) I got an interview for great job. Sorry, I'm not able to say that. W...

That's All, Folks!! After 3 years, 3 months, and an odd number of days, I'm all done with blogging. It was great fun while it lasted. I learned a lot. But now I know I'm done,...

I'm Here.. I may be back here...maybe not. I survived the Fall semester, which wasn't a small task. It was mentally, physically, emotionally, and professionally the m...

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I promise I worked really hard! Is it just me, or does this batch of undergrads seem especially eager to please? I had a number of students email me at the end of the semester to reitera...

Weekend mornings with Monkey, techie edition Monday through Friday is insane in our house. Having a toddler means I have get two people out the door, generally in a pretty short amount of time. Most w...

2012 New Year's Theme I wrote this last week or maybe the week before but I'm just now getting around to posting it... As you can recall from my 2011 post on New Year's resoluti...

Medieval survey revamp, part 3 Christmas and New Year's were both relatively quiet round these parts. Now I have a little time to sort out upcoming classes, which brings me back to my re...

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So do I need a stay-at-home wife or what? Among the comments on FSP posts of today and yesterday, the issue has been raised whether having a stay-at-home spouse (SAHS) or a spouse whose career is s...

Closing time Hello! Anyone out there? It's me. If no one is out there, I would totally understand. I haven't been around much lately. My last post was in March, and bef...