For all that it sounds like I’ve been whining about these trips, I want to be very clear about this: I love doing this kind of research. The boxes and the folders and the reading rooms. Doing it with a digital camera is new to me, but the principle is still the same. [...]
Tags: archives, history, missouri
Posted in academic, personal | 1 Comment »>Archives work is tiring. I suppose it doesn’t have to be, but the type of work I’ve been doing for the last week certainly was. The first step is easy–go through the finding aid (a compiled index and description of the collections) and identify which material you want to look at, and then [...]
Posted in academic | 2 Comments »>The traditional hotel-room-window view.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
So soon after returning from my last trip, I’m on the road again. This time to Ann Arbor–I’m working as a research specialist for the next couple of weeks, doing some quick (and probably fairly intensive) archives work.
Tags: hotel room window, photos
Posted in personal | 4 Comments »>One of the books I’m working through at the moment is Mystics and Messiahs by Philip Jenkins. Five or six years ago, I read an article Jenkins wrote for The Atlantic Monthly about global Christianity; specifically, the article looked at the different types of Christianity proliferating (and thriving) in the Global South, pointing out [...]
Tags: history, objectivity, wikipedia
Posted in academic | 5 Comments »>Somewhere back a few weeks ago, I passed a milestone of sorts–the end of my first year teaching. I almost missed it, in the middle of everything else I was trying to keep track of. Presented for your amusement and edification, a brief (and certainly incomplete) accounting of what I’ve been up to [...]
Tags: commencement, teaching, vacation
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