Category Archive: academia

Not All Humans Are Haters: A Response to Slate’s Rebecca Schuman

Editor’s Note: The author recently received his PhD in Comparative Literature.  Our bad for not updating his bio last […]

Journalists vs. Academia: The Case of William Deresiewicz and Lawrence Buell’s The Dream of the Great American Novel

Everybody seems to have a problem with academics these days.  We’ve known for a long time that the […]

The Process of Belief?: Evolution, Creationism, and “Truth”

I didn’t watch the debate about evolution and creationism between science educator Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham […]

Incubating Scholarship and Smart Students: Teaching and Publishing at Community Colleges amidst the New Realities of Academia: Best of AHA 2014, Part 4

For Part 1 of ToM AHA 2014 coverage: Bed-Stuy, the Illuminati, and the Importance of Fungus Identification – […]

Radical Politics, Disgruntled Veterans, Internment, and the Fear of Dependency: The Military and Social Welfare Reform: Best of AHA 2014, Part 3

Over the past couple of decades, categorizations like “military history” have undergone numerous permutations. Georgia State’s John Southard […]

Transnational Protest, Media Bias, and Monopolized Airwaves: Best of AHA 2014, Part 2

In part II of ToM’s AHA 2014 coverage our correspondents begin with papers on the efforts of Latin […]

Bed-Stuy, the Illuminati, and the Importance of Fungus Identification: Best of AHA 2014, Part 1

Going to conferences is one of the great mixed blessings of the academic life.  On one hand, it […]

13 of Our Favorite Posts from 2013

2013 was Tropics of Meta’s biggest year yet, as we welcomed numerous new contributors (hello LG, Brian, Mark, […]