Conference: Remaking the University in Our Image
To help facilitate egalitarian systems of knowledge production, The Activist History Review will host a digital symposium for early career, independent, and contingent scholars.
Tag: graduate school
The COVID Cliff: Underfunded Graduate Workers in Crisis
Imagine that degree of disconnect—urging employees who have to work several jobs and find external support just to make ends meet to set up a rainy day fund. Every day is rainy for us.
Holiday Hospitality and the Virtues of Academic Commiseration
Staying with Prexy in Chicago reenergized me. I felt better about my own scholarship, and wanted to continue it. Moreover, I determined to start drawing more connections to the injustices I saw in the present.
Review: Jane the Virgin and #MeTooPhD
It’s not every day that a CW drama features a storyline about power dynamics and romantic relationships in academia, but Jane the Virgin did just that in its March 2, 2018 episode “Chapter 75.”
Sifting through the Madness: Navigating the Academy as a Black Woman PhD Student
In a sense, I knew what I was getting into. I entered well-aware of the institutional, systemic norms that have precluded Black women from doing this work and creating knowledge that seeks to disrupt many of the corrupt, perverse, misguided myths about who we are and what we have done. My awareness, though, has not made my short journey less arduous.
Dr. Strangeland: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Ban
As an individual, there are so many identities (or labels) that apply to me: a Pakistani, a Muslim, a man, a historian, and so on. On their own, these identities are not too different from millions of others in the world. But it is the combination of all these identities that made me pursue a career as a historian, and it is also the combination of all these identities that acted as the biggest roadblock in doing so.
The Blind Historian, and Other Fables
I wouldn’t be a historian if it weren’t for my disability. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with a degenerative condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, and I may, at some unknown date in the future, be totally blind.
