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Snitches Get Stitches
My older daughter, who is in kindergarten, is one of the gentlest souls I know. She goes around our house...
Muslim Women Scholars and the Production of Knowledge
During the past two decades, reform-oriented Muslim women scholars, also known as Islamic feminists, started “speaking for themselves”. Their voices...
Two Lawsuits and a Funeral
Recently, two events engendered some serious self-reflection on my “why I am in the teaching profession” question: two landmark sexual...
Teaching or Service?
I am a full-time instructor. At my institution, this means that I have a heavier teaching load, but it also...
Financial Questions in Academic Terms
Very often over the last five years, my friends from the academia have kept me informed about their changes of...
The Branded Professor
As a relatively new tenure-track professor in journalism and media, I teach students skills and critical thinking for a profession...
Fear and Loathing in Academia
This month’s question regarding life balance—how we deal with writer’s block—started me thinking about how I feel about writing. It’s...
Power, Passion, and Pedagogy
Most readers of Inside Higher Ed know of the fracas that followed an x-rated, after-class demonstration for a psychology course...