Found a wonderful $750,000 NEH Grant for Western Civilization.
However, there are so many restrictions on what that money ca be used for that I'm not sure winning the grant would benefit my pedagogy, my students, or my institution.
That's a shame.
Oh yeah, you live in Texas. So sorry for implying.
Regular or special?
Two books: The Great Demarcation and The Making of a Terrorist
Filled out a survey with OUP and got two free books!!
Finally found out where to look up my colleagues' salaries. Whoa, some of y'all make a shitload more than I do. Wild.
Dusting off some old research on Madame du Barry to prepare for a presentation this month. Oh, how I have missed her.
I have friends getting book contracts left and right, and I am so proud of them.
Maybe if I wasn't teaching 6-6-1 I would also write a book?
Alas...
Using Spring Break to catch up on grading and recording lectures.
Disappointing, but necessary.
I just want to play my clarinet and/or go to the beach.
Do y'all have Spring Break this week or next week?
Finishing up my paper, "Émigrés, Passports, and the Franco-Spanish Border: Spanish Notions of Asylum during the French Revolution." Come see me present this paper later this week at the SFHS in Philadelphia.
the English major is so important now with the rise of ChatGPT. yes, the humanities are in decline; they’re seen as less useful than STEM, but with the rise of AI, we need people thinking about humanity.
what is the human? what makes us human? what could be more important?
Of all of the things that I write as a college instructor, I think letters of recommendation might be the most important.
While it generally feels like a sad era in world history, we do get the keys to our brand new house today, so there is some happiness to be had.
We were down a teacher, so my sister has spent the year doing the impossible with an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX ) and we'd be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. +
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
What are your favorite new books about the French Revolution?
What about your favorite new microhistories?
I need to burn through this library budget, and I want to know what everybody is reading!
Just submitted my Intent to Apply Memo for promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor. Has it really already been that long?!?
#tenuretrack
yes to all this
Kitchen
Bathroom
Closet
A few pics from the walkthrough of our brand new house. So excited to be getting the keys very soon!
LOL
I always get a little sad when students drop my class right off the bat. Like, yes, I understand that it sounds intimidating to read for every class and then discuss it, but most of the points they earn in my classes are for effort and completion. I wish they would stick it out.
#tenuretrack
ageofrevolutions.com
Lots of stuff about the age of revolutions in the context of modern events here. Most are quick reads. Very cool stuff.
Whenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian
Back in the office a week before contract date because I'm always behind, so maybe this will help??
#tenuretrack
What do you mean I actually have to write the paper I said I would write in my proposal?
LOL. Always behind.
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I was awarded one of my college's inaugural AI Faculty Innovation Fellowships.
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Grades submitted
Drink poured
Break started
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Grading my end of semester reflection assignment (my favorite of the year). It asks: what is the most important thing you learned in this class and how did it impact your educational trajectory?
Y'all...the candor they have.
That end of the semester grading fury that I do to myself every semester...
I never learn.
#tenuretrack
I also play in my mom's jewelry box every time I go home!! It's fun, and it's so much stuff that means so much to her, that she smiles just getting it out for us to play in. I love this for you so much!
