January 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm
First Week. My students had required reading for our first meeting: the wonderful catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery exhibit, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. The first three chapters and the associated discussion served as a kind of trailer for the whole course. Lisa Tetrault’s “To fight by remembering, or the making of […]
January 31, 2020 at 11:48 am
Having decided to commit self-torture by designing and teaching a whole new course for my second-to-last course before retirement, I decided to share the experience. Our investments in courses usually pay off through the successive iterations of teaching them. That won’t happen here. Further, most of the time most of us teach courses for which […]
February 28, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Here I post a working paper and accompanying data source discussing the life course of higher education institutions and ecology of higher education specifically as it relates to the very steep increase in the number of colleges and universities that have been closing in recent years — and will continue to increase. This working paper […]
January 11, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Given the recent discussion of emergencies, real and created, I thought back to my dear, late colleague Murray Edelman, and the chapter he wrote on the political uses of “crisis” in his excellent book, Political Language. I doubt younger generations have read much of his work. I share this particular chapter here. EdelmanCrises
June 26, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Once again, in 2018, we are debating civility and its place in American politics. It has not been very long since the last time we had serious worries about a “civility crisis” — in the late 1990s, but a lack of civility seems less a rupture and more a fundamental part of political style today, […]
November 16, 2017 at 9:39 am
Remarks delivered by Virginia Sapiro (Michigan Ph.D. ’76) at the Institute for Social Research/ G.R. Ford School of Public Policy Symposium on Impact on Inequality: Contributions of Michigan Social Science. Panel on Race, Gender, & Empowerment University of Michigan Bicentennial Thursday 9 November 2017 I am honored […]
November 16, 2017 at 9:32 am
Remarks for a Roundtable at the International Symposium on Education and Gender Equality,Wellesley College, October 20, 2017 What a large task we have been set, to attempt to answer the question: What is Gender Equality? Let me begin with some hot-off-the-presses data. The nonpartisan, highly respected Pew Research Center just released some data from a September survey of […]
October 26, 2016 at 11:10 am
Still not entirely back to blogging (teaching a full load of entirely new courses brings me back to the worst things about being a new assistant professor….) but recently I participated in a panel at Emerson College on Comedy and the 2016 Election. It was very interesting, especially listening to the professionals in comedy, and […]
August 21, 2016 at 5:52 pm
Time has passed and I haven’t added anything new in ages. Here’s my excuse (everyone has one): between travel, trying to finish what i want to finish before end of sabbatical/summer, and intensive gardening, no extra time. But here are some samples of produce that show you why gardening is worth it: And one […]
I am very grateful to have received the 2015 International Society for Political Psychology Harold Lasswell Award for distinguished scientific contribution in the field of political psychology. As a result of that, I was asked to deliver a brief (~15 minutes) lecture at this year meeting, held recently in Warsaw, Poland. I chose the topic, […]
