Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Indigenous Anthropologists Call for Doing Land Acknowledgement Better
The Association of Indigenous Anthropologists requested that the American Anthropological Association officially pause land acknowledgments and the related practice of the welcoming ritual, in which Indigenous persons open conferences with prayers or blessings.
On Taking Long COVID Seriously
Examining how long COVID is viewed by some doctors as psychosomatic, Steven Lubet argues that condescension in the name of compassion is no way to build trust.
A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month, which the United States observes between September 15 and October 15, was created by a 1988 law after […]
Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China
Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.
Hungry, Thirsty, Tired and Scared: A Scholar Exits Afghanistan
Editor’s note: Afghan scholar Hanif Sufizada, who works at the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, got caught […]
Ethnography’s Denominator Blues
Steven Lubet set out to investigate whether ethnography’s characteristic reliance on unverified accounts may sometimes produce misinformation. He argues that In any other academic discipline, his findings would have provoked less umbrage and more reinvestigation.
A Quick Primer on Critical Race Theory
The development of critical race theory by legal scholars such as Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw was largely a response to the slow legal progress and setbacks faced by African Americans from the end of the Civil War, in 1865, through the end of the civil rights era, in 1968.
