CFP Mapping Desire – 25 years on: legacies, lessons, and lacunae (May & Sep 2020)
This is a call for papers (CFP) for CFP Mapping Desire – 25 years on: legacies, lessons, and lacunae (May & Sep …
What I Can Bear to Remember about Academic Job Video Interviews
It’s that season again: Skype and Zoom links are being clicked through in email inboxes, along with actual phone numbers being dialed, …
How to Write a Peer Review for a Journal Article
As an editorial collective member of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies and as someone who once managed WSQ: Women’s Studies …
Joining the University of Kentucky Department of Geography
As of today, I’ve joined the Department of Geography of the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to be on this new …
For Academics: How to Set Up Your Own Website and Why It’s Worth It
Dear Academic Friend, Over the years, many of you have asked me how to build a website. About eleven years ago, a …
Hiring a Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Trinity College
Trinity College is hiring a Digital Scholarship Coordinator! Please spread the news far and wide — and come work with our fabulous …
Dancing with Hortense Spillers & Other Reflections on the Futures of American Studies Institute 2016
Futures of American Studies Institute 2016 #fasi16 took place June 20th-26th at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Below are tweets Pt. I or II. See the full schedule here http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/schedule/. Tweets from Part II can be found at http://bit.ly/fasi16storifypart2of2.
Advice for Grad Students: How to Respond to Peer Review
You say: Ack! You are going to submit something you wrote! To a journal! This is happening! I say: Good for you, …
Advice for Grad Students: How to Do Academic Peer Review
A grad student friend of mine called in a panic a few months ago asking how to do a peer review. “Should …
My Recommendation Writing Policy, and Advice on How/When/Who to Ask
Semester after semester, I find myself receiving an increasing number of requests to write recommendation letters. They are a pleasure to write. …
Why are all the queers sitting together at the conference? Or, reflections on AAG 2016
The American Association of Geographers and Sexuality & Space Pre-Conference meetings took place in San Francisco last week. I’ve been back in …
Heading to ASA 2016
Excited to share the great news that our panel, “Geography, Maps, and Visions of Home in the Classroom,” organized by Eric Covey …
Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon a Success!
As I just wrote on the Gender & Geography Bibliography (GGB) website, during Geography Awareness Week in mid-November 2015, over 49 individuals and …
Details for the Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon
I am delighted to share that the Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon will take place November 15th-21st, 2015. A hackathon is a …
Sharing AERA Panel Video: “Toward What Justice?”
This session brings together compelling scholars within diverse intellectual traditions in educational research to discuss corresponding and sometimes competing definitions of justice. Each panelist will respond to a set of questions designed to reveal the salient points of convergence and difference between Indigenous studies, critical disabilities studies, critical race studies, immigration and border studies, and queer studies in education. A noted critical discussant will synthesize perspectives, offer ideas for future inquiry, and prompt further discussion between the panelists.
Queer and Urban Reflections on St. Petersburg BUKA Alumni Meeting
The following is a post I recently shared with the American Friends of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation blog in reflection to the …
New publication: Two Chapters in Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijuana, Copenhagen
Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijuana, Copenhagen, a collaborative work of artists, activists, and scholars, showcases the work of queer art installations in these …
Announcing the launch of The People, Place, & Space Reader Website at PeoplePlaceSpace.org
We are pleased to announce the launch of the website, PeoplePlaceSpace.org, for the forthcoming The People, Place, & Space Reader, edited by …
Reflecting on “Identity Work and Identity Play Online” #2013ASA
Livetweets from”Identity Work and Identity Play Online” with @Greene_DM, @lportwoodstacer, @anitaconchita, @lnakamur, & @tmcphers at #ASA2013. Link to the panel info can be found here: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa13/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&s
Collecting Data, Que(e)rying the SpaceTime of the Lesbian Herstory Archives
On founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives: Deb Edel: We began talking about how easily our history had gotten lost. Joan Nestle: That …