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Nov 8, 2024 | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Karin Wulf
I wrote this piece in 2022, in the wake of culminating threats to democratic governance in the US and around the world.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Karin Wulf
In early August of 1789, Rebecca Foster was raped on three different days by three different men in her home on the outskirts of the small town of Hallowell, Maine. The wife of the town’s minister, she charged these men publicly, and there was a trial. None of the men was punished; Rebecca and her husband, Isaac, moved away, first to another town in Maine and then to Maryland. Then as now, it was unusual for rape to be charged, not least to go to trial. Then as now, rape created spirals of trauma.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
bookbusinessmag.com | Karin Wulf
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated. The post “Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Karin Wulf
The multidimensional threats to education in the United States and the United Kingdom, and to higher education and to the humanities in particular, require our urgent attention. It’s frankly hard to keep up, between pressure against or outright prohibition on whole approaches to knowledge or sets of information such as we are seeing with legislation in places in Florida, and cuts to university departments in English, Languages, and History, among other humanities disciplines.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
bookbusinessmag.com | Karin Wulf
Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise. The post Humanities and Jobs Data: What’s the Real Story? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Karin Wulf |David Crotty |Angela Cochran |Alice Meadows
Ava Chin’s Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s History of Exclusion and Homecoming and Matthew Gutterl’s Skinfolk: A Memoir. With a nod to Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water. I’ve always kept close reading notes for non-fiction, but this year I kept closer track of all the fiction and non-fiction I read than in some previous years. I’m especially glad I did as my research interests and pleasure reading have converged in rewarding ways.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
bookbusinessmag.com | Karin Wulf |David Crotty |Angela Cochran |Alice Meadows
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today. The post Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 3 appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | David Crotty |Karin Wulf |Todd Carpenter
The eLife Assessment: Can Significance be Separated from Accuracy? eLife’s bold metamorphosis from a research journal to a preprint review service has now been going on for half a year, and at least from the data presented in this progress report, it seems to be forging ahead successfully.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
bookbusinessmag.com | David Crotty |Karin Wulf |Todd Carpenter
A mixed bag post from us -- can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern. The post Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
commonplace.online | Robert Gross |Joshua Greenberg |Karin Wulf |Jerry Kuntz
Nestled in a manuscript box and secured in a basement vault, three obscure volumes of bound pamphlets in the Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library bear witness to the political upheaval of the decade from 1826 to 1835 known as Anti-Masonry.
