Jamie Bolker

Oct 21, 2024 | chronicle.com | Jamie Bolker |Kevin Carey |Sophie Nguyen |Julianne Werlin |Len Gutkin

In the last few months, two rich essays have appeared looking back at a series of flare-ups, since 2019 or so, in the perennial debate over the politics of historical study. In July, Past & Present published the Northwestern University historian Sarah Maza’s “Presentism and the Politics of History: Revisiting the 2022 James Sweet Affair.” And earlier this month, Liberties published the Rutgers University at Camden historian Katherine C.

Oct 15, 2024 | chronicle.com | Jamie Bolker

In the fall of 2019, I landed a tenure-track job in English at MacMurray College, a small liberal-arts college in central Illinois. After three years of being on the job market, I thought I had won the lottery by securing a job not far from my family in an area with a low cost of living. During my interview, the committee admitted the college had financial troubles but did not disclose how serious they really were.