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Did Ancient Women Read Books?
Author Sarit Kattan Gribetz joins us for a Q&A about “Women as Readers of the Nag Hammadi Codices" published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. (Article can be found at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/709379.) How did you delve into this area of research...
How My New Book about Jane Austen Started with Stephenie Meyer
Guest post by Janine Barchas In The Lost Books of Jane Austen, I champion the cheapest and least authoritative reprints of an important author, mixing hardcore bibliography with the tactics of the Antiques Roadshow. How I came to stray from scholarly libraries...
Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America
The central theme in Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America is that policymakers must place disease prevention at the center of our nation’s health policy. This is critical to improving the health of the United States – which is declining...
Intuitive Physics is Inside Everyone
What do you think of when you hear the word “physics”? Does it conjure up a slew of equations on a chalkboard? How about a tough university course you just had to pass? I’ve been a physics professor at the University of Lynchburg for nearly two decades, and I...
How University Budgets Work: Q&A with author Dean O. Smith
Why did you decide to write How University Budgets Work​? I just finished writing a rigorous book on university finances that featured just one chapter on budgets. I welcomed the opportunity to expand this coverage in a book solely about university budgets...
The New American College Town
So we are sitting on the airport tarmac in Elko, Nevada getting ready for our next visit to Saint George, Utah, then up to Redding, California, and finally over to Ashland, Wisconsin. What these several placebound locations have in common is that they are...
Adjuncts Are Only Part of the Problem: Sizing Up the Gig Academy
The rise of “academic capitalism”—a term for the broad shift to market-centered university planning and administration since the early 1980s first theorized by Slaughter, Leslie, and Rhoades (1997; 2004)—has transformed nearly every aspect of the postsecondary...
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health
Stigma is all around us – messages communicated about how you don’t fit, don’t belong, or have no value. Mostly though, unless you happen to be the one being stigmatized, it’s pretty much invisible. Think of the discomfort of flying. As a New Zealander who...
The Empowered University
Higher education matters, now more than ever, for our students, our colleagues, and our society. And because it does, the culture of our campuses also matters now more than ever, because our values, attitudes, goals, and behaviors either encourage or limit...