14 Apr 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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A few days ago, I posted with a strong reaction to Inside Higher Education’s framing of female political scientists as angry. I think that my reaction was quick and strong both because the piece and conversation warranted it, and because … Continue reading
12 Apr 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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The other day, Wendy Wong posted at the Duck of Minerva about race, gender, and having a career in IR – particularly in response to the American Political Science Association’s choice of a stock image of a random Asian woman as … Continue reading
13 Feb 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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I have seen this on Facebook a number of times over the last couple of weeks, and it has really resonated. Especially since Reviewer 2 doesn’t like puppies. And I love puppies. I mean, after all, who can resist my … Continue reading
2 Jan 2016
by Brandon Valeriano
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Sara Mitchell over at the Political Methodologist writes a great piece on peer review with many notes of wisdom that do not necessarily have anything to do with peer review. Much of it borders more on career advice for both Senior and … Continue reading
1 Jan 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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Amid all of the wishes for a Happy New Year on Facebook and Twitter were hundreds of resolutions. Resolutions are an implicit reflection on what we could have done better in 2015 – the mistakes we made and shortcomings we … Continue reading
17 Aug 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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My scholarship is a politics. I did not start out interested in an academic career, then narrow down my research interest in graduate school to focus on gender/feminism in IR. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson once called scholarship and teaching a vocation … Continue reading
13 Jul 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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I step into this breech timidly, the UK education system is severely rotting. There is so much I can say and so much I should not. As this is the start of my fourth year in the UK I have … Continue reading
25 Jun 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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Ok, maybe not other annoying responses, for this post. Just this one. Recently, I was asked to write a response to Mike Desch’s argument that high-tech methodology hurts the policy relevance of Security Studies for Perspectives on Politics. The policy … Continue reading
10 Jun 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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I have never been successful at writing op-eds, basically I have given up in order to write shorter academic pieces for visible places. The preference for an academic generally should be places like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Slate that … Continue reading
2 Apr 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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I won’t tell you how old I was when Carol Cohn published “Sex and Death in the World of Rational Defense Intellectuals” – but I will tell you that I’ve read it dozens of times over my years as an IR scholar, … Continue reading