One Foot In is my long-time homepage blog, and is generally written from my perspective as someone who gave up a tenured full-time position to live with only one foot (part-time) in academia. Pacific Standard has been kind enough to purchase republication rights to some of these posts. Posts are shown below in reverse chronological order.
- Leaning Out
- Try Everything: The BWL Power Outage of 2013
- Risky Teaching: Call Me Spartacus
- Sexual Harassment: Beyond Abstinence Education
- Why We Tri
- “…the action of saving or being saved…”
- Taking the History, and Giving It Back (about doing private, pro bono, client-centered histories)
- The Worst of All Possible IRB Worlds
- An essay on what professional historians do, for students
- A Monocular Life, in Perspective
- Teaching Sex Diversity in Prison
- Falling in Love with Calvin Trillin’s Wife
- Finishing the Book That Didn’t Finish Me After All
- Who’s Policing the Ethicists?
- Writing Teachers
- Thick with Child: A Guide to Writing When You Have Kids
- Not Dead Yet
- Charlie and the Bat (or, Who’s Living in the Fireplace?)
- Me and Princess Kate
- The Gratitude Train
- No Science, Please. We’re Anthropologists.
- Over to you, Pixie
- The Problem with Plagiarism
- Wasn’t publishing supposed to be about new knowledge, or improving human life, or something other than . . . publishing?
- Dispatches from that sick little part of my brain that isn’t working on what to cook next
- My Dexy Life
- Sitting Down with Rosa Parks
- The Fog of Privilege
- My “Demonic” Debut at the American Anthropological Association
- History in the Walls
- Accidental Double
- The Kid Option
- Sex at the Office: The Other Problems
- Reporting Live from the Hormonal Storm
- Addicted to Oral
- Hermaphroditic Chickens Everywhere (Except Where the Truth Bitch Reigns)
- The Elusive Work/Life Balance, or, Why Mothers Should Get No Special Exceptions in Academia (maybe)
- The Social Construction of Sex and Me
- Is a Small Penis in the Hand Worth Three in the Bush?
- If You’re Pessimistic, You’re Never Disappointed (or, Meditations on Frequent Travel)
- What to Wear?
- Science: Not Just Another Religion
- I can’t seem to murder anyone around here
- America Gets a Puppy
- One Day
- Letter to an Illinois friend who probably won’t vote
- The New Objectivity
- Suddenly, I’m a prima donna
- No Regrets
- Card Games
- Sleeping with the Enmity
- My Favorite Pot
- The difference between feminism and identity politics
- In defense of reading papers at academic conferences
- Oprah (Inside Edition)
- Summer thoughts on the two cultures
- Informed Dissent
- The Cocktail Conversation Is Better (I Can’t Speak to the Sex)
- “A Long Labor: Artistic Conceptions of Conjoined Twins Lost at Birth,” by Deb Costandine
- Join Academia! Misbehave! Win Big Prizes!
- Why “Disorders of Development”? (On Language and Life)
- Massive c.v. update!
- Grad School Survival
- Get Thee to a Hospital
- My Identity/Politics
- The True Story of Dr. Mom
- Separate This, Baby
- Add Black People and Stir?
- Top Ten Tips for Doing Activism in Academia
- A Modest Proposal Regarding the Faculty
- The Blog I Write in Fear
- Do I Have to Get Tenure?
- The Self-Esteemed Generation
- Slackademia
- Teach Backwards
- Creating Truth: Even Better than Being Cited
- Trading Places: Why the Democrats Need Red