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Publish or Perish versus Community Engagement and Activism
I found this unpublished gem today. Now that I am on the other side of tenure, I figured I would share some of my (previously unpublished) thoughts… ****** I am in my third year on the tenure track as an assistant professor. I have had a fair number successes, a few failures, and some…
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Growing Democracy Project: Website & Podcast
Check out the new website for the Growing Democracy Project: www.GrowingDemocracyOH.org! Casey Boyd-Swan and I are excited to see the launch of the website & the Growing Democracy Podcast. Check it out!
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Gratitude to the ‘The Folks of Flint’
I had the privilege of working on a project of Dan White’s, The Folks of Flint, in 2017. I was introduced to Dan through the Jan Worth-Nelson, the editor-in-chief of East Village Magazine. After wrapping up fieldwork for my book Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan. I spent the next month interviewing Flint residents…
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[Personal] Reflection on Identifying as a “Critical Scholar”
Originally Prepared for: ARNOVA Conference, Austin, TX, November, 2018 My entrance into critical nonprofit and voluntary action studies was winding and non-linear. This reflection essay highlights my journey to identifying as a critical scholar, how I see this identify in relation to my identities as a scholar-activist and feminist, how critical perspectives have shaped my approach…
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Three co-edited books!
This last year has been a whirlwind. I am wrapping up my second year on the tenure-track with some successes and some failures. For today, I am focusing on the successes! Between May 2017 and April 2018, I published three co-edited books. Each of the books is very different. Two are academic books and the other…
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Fieldwork and Parenting
I am a parent. I am also a qualitative researcher, whose work often requires time in the field. In my last blog post I talked a bit about the challenges of avoiding “parachute research.” In that post I discussed the importance of continual reflexivity–the process of self-reflection wherein I am constantly checking my own power and privileged…