Health and disease are powerful tropes in the construction of hierarchies in global geopolitics. Health stands in as a marker of civilization, sanitation as a sign of modernity just as disease denotes barbarism and uncleanliness is an indicator backwardness (Eamon 1998; Goudsblom 1986; Rothschild BM...
When my partner was accepted to Oxford University's Geography Department, i was ecstatic. I had visions of hanging out at the Bodleian Library or the Radcliffe Camera. I thought i might bury myself in the David Nicholls Memorial Collection in Regent's Park College (Jason's assigned...
It's been two weeks, now, and i've not found a single set of records pertaining to the Service d'Hygiene. I've followed every lead imaginable - i've read countless reports of rapes, murders, court martials, food shortages, tobacco taxes, squabbles about who does and doesn't have...
I've arrived in DC and have gotten to work in the National Archives. Can i be so giddily excited every time i work my way through the several layers of security? Am i allowed to be so incredibly exhilarated every time i come out of...
On April 30, Naomi Schaefer Riley published a piece, The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations, in the Brainstorm Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Her post was a vitriolic, acerbic personal attack on three young black women an...