“My Grad School is a Non-Hazing Organization” My experience during graduate school (I am referencing my actual doctoral program, as well as my pre-doc fellowship) was a mixed bag. I was lucky to have an advisor, mentors, and later on …

How I Healed After Grad School Convinced Me That I Hated Reading: or, how I re-discovered the love of my life Read more »

Last night a a number of past and present colleagues began discussing the pro’s and con’s of the already infamous “new student letter” sent out to the University of Chicago’s incoming class yesterday about trigger warnings. In the letter Dean …

Thoughts on the UChicago Trigger Warning Letter from a ‘Chicago Ph.D. Read more »

Recent events at Mizzou remind me of parts of my experience at the University of Michigan that are pretty painful. As a student activist on campus, I often pushed back against institutional and student-body racism in a way that left …

Thinking About Mizzou and Remembering Racism at the University of Michigan Read more »