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Adjunct Faculty & Pandemic
Point #1: “Contingent” Faculty It is true the current COVID pandemic has both revealed and exacerbated the systemic problems in higher education. The first...
Long Cultural Shadows…
As I write this, J.J. Abrams’s film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has just been released. Unless you’ve been completely cut off from...
My New Book Is Out Now!
You can now order my new book Reagan’s “Boys” and the Children of the Greatest Generation: U.S. World War II Memory, 1984 and Beyond...
FB, Memory, & Zerubavel
The past few years, I’ve been consistently fascinated with Facebook’s desire to present its users with “memories”. This blog post, like many here on...
New Published Chapter
I’m happy to announce my new book chapter included within Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia edited by Ryan Lizardi. It is available NOW from...
Temporal Agenda Setting
This is truly a short, incomplete “blog” post. Usually the posts found here on my personal website are fleshed out, edited, short-form articles and...
When Popular Culture Historicizes Itself
If you’ve read my earlier post titled Pop Bands Mythologizing Themselves, this entry may feel familiar. The previous post was limited to only “pop”...
Pop Bands Mythologizing Themselves
Definition sticklers will call me out on my use of the term “pop” when really I mean rock, pop, R&B, etc., but pop or...
New Book Chapter in “Playing With The Past” – Release Date: October 24, 2013
I have a co-authored book chapter with Andrew J. Salvati being released on October 24, 2013 in a collection entitled Playing with the Past...
The ‘Malling’ of Higher Education
In Marc Parry’s article on Mitch Duneier in the Chronicle of Higher Education from September 3, 2013 (http://chronicle.com/article/A-MOOC-Star-Defects-at-Least/141331/), the author discusses Duneier’s decision...