There still aren’t that many jobs for digital historians out there. If you are in the market for one of those jobs, here’s a possibility that I found out about from the search committee chair. Please do not email me about it — I’m just passing along the notice. __________________________ The Departments of History and…
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E-Text Job
In the most recent installment of Digital Campus we discussed the rise of the e-textbook on college campuses and wondered how much longer it would take before e-texts replaced paper and glue texts as the primary vehicle for the delivery of information to students. The very next day my friend Sherry Linkon, co-director of Youngstown…
Are Teaching Statements Bunk?
Writing in the February 19, 2010 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Haggerty of the University of Alberta takes on the college teaching statement as a useful source of information about teaching and pronounces the entire genre “bunk.” The essay and the ensuing comments make a very interesting read and I particularly recommend…
The Future of History
I’ve been spending a lot of time of late clearing out the house my parents lived in from 1965-2009 and among the many, many boxes of junk in the attic I found some old folders of mine from (shudder) high school. Among the many things I found was an editorial I had clipped from the…