Ted McCormick
I research, write and teach about the ways people thought about and tried to change society and nature, especially in Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I live in Montreal.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
history academia politics why study history teaching Donald Trump academic writing self-promotion graduate school population academic jobs Scientific Revolution racism seventeenth century academic publishing public intellectuals early modern PhD technology publication
Why Was This Document Never Written? An Unsource Analysis Exercise
15 August 2023
Who would the author have been? Where, when, and why did they not write the source? What conditions made not writing such a document possible, probable, desirable, necessary? Why...
History: What Everyone Needs to Know
7 July 2023
A scientist I know, arguing for the importance of practitioners in her discipline learning fundamental theory as well as technical skills, asked me whether there are similar debates...
3 February 2023
This post is based on a Twitter thread I started back in 2021 and have expanded since. Its origins are in a sense platform-specific. Twitter discourse is awash in accusations and counteraccusations...
Faculty[,] Don’t Run It Like a Business
30 January 2023
The subtext of nearly every practical discussion about hiring, promotion, or retention in academia — on the faculty side, that is — is that everyone is replaceable. One might say...