A confession: I tend to have quite a bit of disdain for “teaching with technology.” Call me old fashioned, but I don’t see the point in many of the teaching innovations that technology is supposed to have brought us. No…
Today is the counterinsurgency class in Southeast Asian Politics. I don’t relish teaching this class—even though I’m assigning my own work—because it is a sad topic. Here is a lecture slide that always gets me (image from here). I can…
At the request of the beginning PhD students here, I am giving a presentation on interview-based field research this morning. It’s really very sketchy—there is just no way that I can do this topic justice in an hour—but there are…
On Thursday, Joe Errington gave a fascinating presentation entitled “In Search of Middle Indonesian” at the SEAP Brown Bag. Joe is a linguist and an anthropologist, yet his presentation hit on a number of basic and enduring political science themes…
Just in time for today’s lecture on economic development in Southeast Asia, and a week after the Asian values (or “listing our stereotypes of Asians”) class, a beautifully sarcastic post by Noah Smith on culture as an explanation for Chinese…
My colleague Richard Swedberg sent me this wonderful graphic today. Very rarely do you see a visual presentation of data that so clearly illustrates so many things so beautifully. He first showed this at an event on the EU Financial…
I hypothesize based on a critical case study (n = 1) that graders find it more annoying to read papers written with 1.3 line spacing, .4 inch margins, and 10.7 point font than just reading papers that are three pages longer…
This NYT opinion piece by Kevin Clarke and David Primo summarizes for a lay audience some of the important arguments in their book A Model Discipline. I’ve written here about their position before, so you’d imagine that there’s not much…
