This short piece just came out in Portal, the magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. I am glad to have had the chance to reflect on the past year’s administrative crazy at SBU, and will be writing a postdata to this text to bring it up to date.
https://llilasbensonmagazine.org/2018/08/27/alumni-spotlight-a-language-is-not-a-widget/
I have been traveling a lot over the past month. First, to Temuco, in Ngulumapu—southern Chile—for the annual Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Conference. And then to France with the husband for an actual vacation, with actual beaches and an actual no-work policy. But I&
Like millions of people around the globe, I've been watching the World Cup. I haven't watched every game, but over these past couple weeks, I've seen flashes across the screen of something I didn't expect: Plains Indian war bonnets. I have seen
Over the past few months I've been working with Geneviève François on a reading guide for Speculative Relations, and I'm happy to share that it is now finished and posted on the Duke University Press website. Access the Reading Guide at the link below. Download the
Friends, comrades, lovers, I must have said something spicy on Saturday because people seemed to identify with the Academia will not love you back idea. I’m grateful for the dialogue that unfolded across social media (Instagram and Bluesky). You never really know what is going to resonate with people,