Tag Archives: UMW
Yik Yak is the Id of the University
It has been a tumultuous 24 hours at UMW, since the Virginia State Police rolled in last night and arrested some protesters who had been occupying the administration building for the past three weeks in an attempt to get the … Continue reading
Dormer-on-a-Crane
This post is the sequel to last December’s “Columns-n-a-crate,” which are both part of the great series entitled Virginia Architectural Pastiches. The new Campus Center is getting its dormers lowered on with a crane. Must have been acquired at Antebellum Greek Revival Features-R-Us.
Making a Collaborative Reading Notes Wiki
This semester I am experimenting with using MediaWiki as a platform for the students in my History of Manhood in the US course to build a collaborative set of reading notes. After being less than completely satisfied with my Twitter … Continue reading
Twitter as an Academic Tool
This week’s assignment for the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative is to explore online scholarly communities. I spent some time racking my brain trying to think up Early Americanist communities online, until I realized that I have been an … Continue reading
The Quotidianness of Digital Identity
This week I have been thinking about digital identity as a process, an insight that emerged from a serendipitous overlap between an email conversation with a friend and the the week’s readings for the UMW Domain of One’s Own Faculty … Continue reading
Damn Yankees
The Civil War is being refought in the UMW Faculty Dining Room, but this time, the South has won.
Congrats to the Mack Pack
I had a great bunch of thesis students this year. I learned halfway through the semester that a bunch of them had been carpooling to the Library of Congress and had dubbed themselves “the Mack Pack.” (Also, apparently they dubbed … Continue reading
Columns-n-a-Crate
Get your Greek Revival here! Whole columns, crated and ready for installation. Buy in bulk and save! Enough to cover every church in Virginia and banquet hall in Astoria.
