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Christopher Shea

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Christopher Shea is an assistant editor of Outlook/PostEverything at The Washington Post. Formerly, he was a contributing writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Stories by This Author

A doctor draws blood in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which the U.S. Public Health Service, from 1932 to 1972, 
misled black sharecroppers with the disease into believing that they were under treatment.
Research
New Rules for Human-Subject Research Are Delayed and Debated
By Christopher Shea November 3, 2014
Many social scientists, like anthropologists and oral historians, argue that the rules should not apply to them.
Paul Ekman, an emeritus professor of psychology at the U. of California 
at San Francisco, at home. He is renowned for his ability to read faces.
The Chronicle Review
The Liar’s ‘Tell’
By Christopher Shea October 10, 2014
Paul Ekman famously identified clues to dishonesty in people’s expressions. Now his critics wonder if he has stretched the truth.
The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship meets at a lecture hall at Cal State at Long Beach. The university recently denied the group official recognition because it refused to drop a requirement that its leaders be Christians.
Students
Controversy Heats Up Over Exclusionary Religious Groups
By Christopher Shea October 6, 2014
California State University has withdrawn its recognition of a Christian group that requires its leaders to be Christians. Other groups wait to see what’s next.
A demonstrator expresses herself in a case before the Supreme Court, in which the owners of a corporation invoke freedom of religion to deny employees health coverage for contraceptives.
The Chronicle Review
The Limits of Religious Tolerance
By Christopher Shea June 9, 2014
Should believers be exempt from laws they despise?
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The Chronicle Review
The New Academic Celebrity
By Christopher Shea April 14, 2014
Theory thumpers are so 90s. What TED and the rest of the “ideas” circuit prize are upbeat wizards of science and social science.
The Review
Academic Inequality and the Star System
By Christopher Shea April 14, 2014
Which professors become highly visible may have changed since the 1990s, but the business side of the academic star system is still going strong: Universities that hope to move up in the graduate-program rankings target top professors and offer them high salaries and other perks. Against the…
Faculty
Rutgers U. Suspends Noted Anthropologist
By Christopher Shea February 10, 2014
Robert L. Trivers, who was briefly barred from the campus in 2012, says he is being punished for complaining to students about a teaching assignment.
Mark Rice, a professor of American studies at St. John Fisher College, says that small undergraduate programs like his could be hurt by the blowback against some scholars’ political agendas.
Research
Boycott Debate Is Symptom of Broader Shift in American Studies
By Christopher Shea January 27, 2014
Does political activism represent a departure from the American-studies mission or a logical extension of its recent scholarship?
Among Erez Aiden’s interests is the physical structure of the human genome. He helped describe a breakthrough technique for identifying regions of the genome that are near one another, as in this three-dimensional rendering.
The Chronicle Review
Erez Aiden Contains Multitudes
By Christopher Shea January 13, 2014
A big thinker slaloms between the sciences and the humanities, inspiring both awe and skepticism.
Publishing
Librarians Accuse Harvard Business Publishing of Unfair Prices
By Christopher Shea November 12, 2013
As the publisher of “Harvard Business Review” pursues revenue from course assignments, some complain of profiteering.
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