Claire Bond Potter

Even if striking workers win, the system is still rigged against them.

As the John Comaroff case shows, faculty members are too often complicit in concealing sexual harassment.

Academics underestimate how our willingness to sign things — petitions, letters — can do real harm.

Feminist bookstores paved the way for today’s mass booksellers.

The places where intellectuals used to thrive have disappeared, but a new one has arisen.

My sister bloggers Historiann (who has spent part of her sabbatical creating a snazzy new design) and Madwoman with a Laptop, now a fancy executive director, could tell you this farewell has been coming for a while. I’m hangin’ up my template.

During this year of police violence, and organizing against police violence, I have avoided blogging about the many issues raised by Ferguson, Staten Island and Baltimore. I am ambivalent about this decision, because it isn’t as though I do not have a lot to say, and that saying it in this space is…

Best news ever! My conversation with Chauncey DeVega is up at We Are Respectable Negroes. Actually it’s been up since last week, and the conference, post conference, omigod-am-I-leaving-town-again cycle prevented me from posting it here. Apologies to all DeVega fans.

I am just back from St. Louis, where the Organization of American Historians (OAH) had its annual meeting this weekend. A brief review:

The other day I read a comment on Facebook to the effect that, after changing jobs, many academics experience a moment of intense regret. The author of the comment timed this moment of regret at about six months into the new job, when the losses and the difficulty of the transition becomes truly…