Today, I am trying something new–at least for me in my place [role?] as agent of a degree granting university…

Thus, our scientific task is more aking to physicists disputing “gravity” (islanding, culture) than to medical researchers looking for the…

Did the human beings who moved into the plains of Russia where they had to survive on milk did so…

Our students will conduct what I imagine as the fourth generation of our collective work. They, I am quite sure,…

What happens if potential students, their parents, and employers, discover that there are cheaper and more efficient ways of producing…

We need research into the process that make some people fail schools (and much less research on why some other…

What I am arguing here is that, in the political life of any polity (whether small town or corporation), the…

It is not quite enough to talk about "shared governance" without specifying "with whom" and on what grounds, formally and…

Given any ordered social state (system, pattern, culture, ...), this state will always re-order itself into any number of new…

One of my favorite quote from Geertz on anthropology as an experimental science: The “natural laboratory” notion has been equally…

One does need to imagine situations, to be shared together by the observer and the observed (i.e. ethnographic participant observation),…

So, things fall apart (why-ever). As Garfinkel once put it “when you screw around, then you get instructed.” That is,…

Katy Steinmetz, a journalist for Time Magazine recent summarized “What Twitter Says to Linguists” (Time Magazine, September 9, 2013). Actually Steinmetz…

Over the past weeks, while teaching Ethnography of education, and in a discussion of research in educational linguistic, I was…