I’ve started a Medium channel to better represent my research interests, and how they intersect with my life as a parent with a mental illness. I’ll still post on here things that are more personal, and will try to do so at least once a week. I’ll also cross post here so the folks who […]
Read MoreOne of the things about dissertating is that my time is wide open. No one tells me where to be or what to do. There are no classes, no assignments, no group meetings. To dissertate well, one must be super protective of one’s time. I suck at protecting my time. Case in point: I am […]
Read MoreSomehow my children got a hold of buttons with pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. on them. Being their ego-centric selves, they first starting saying that their names were on them. This was at breakfast, and I missed part of the conversation as I was sweeping the floor. But I came across the conversation and […]
Read MoreThe research process is hard. I presented in a workshop today and walked away feeling like I’d just had the wind knocked out of me, even though nothing really bad had been said about my work. The professors in the room even said that I would definitely get a book out of the project one […]
Read MoreMelissa Harris-Lacewell: An amazing black female public intellectual whose research is placing black American women front and center. I shouldn’t idolize anyone, but when you are feeling like the academics around you really don’t appreciate the work of black people or about black people, seeing her today did a lot for me. I’d already been […]
Read Morehttp://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/700/black-public-opinion I don’t understand either of the options. If race is about physical traits, a classification system based on physical features, then once you no longer look like that race, then you generally aren’t. I know this is a controversial thing to say, because race is also about self-idenitifcation. But I think that once society […]
Read MoreI entered sociology not knowing what I wanted to study or how I wanted to study it. My department is pretty quantitative, which is not a problem for me because I love math and numbers – always have. But I found out something about myself, both in my master’s program year and last year, and […]
Read MoreI read about this yesterday on Contexts Crawler, which hunts out sociology-related news from all over the country. The article is about employer diversity training, and reports that research shows that the training may be doing more harm than good: About two-thirds of companies engage in diversity training, according to a 2005 survey by the […]
Read MoreOr does someone actually think my work is worth publishing? Dear Gradmommy, I am writing as Editor of Journal to invite you to submit the interesting paper you recently presented at the ASA Meeting in Boston. “Your Work” is a provocative analysis and one I would like an opportunity to review. If you decide to […]
Read MoreIsn’t it great that the blogosphere exists so that one person can read what has been lauded as a great book, synthesize it, and post something truly important for all of us to benefit from? Anomie rocks.
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