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Jorge J Rodríguez V
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I go back and forth on whether “whiteness studies” is an important field that helps us deconstruct and analyze how whiteness functions or whether “whiteness studies” is just an academic
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I see why scholars turn towards the term “spirituality.” We have to wrestle with the construction of “religion” as a category birthed from Western colonialism. And, if we’re going to
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The advice I continue giving folks looking into PhD programs is to look for an advisor who is kind. Don’t look for the “most brilliant” advisor. Look for the person
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The thing I miss *least* about white evangelical spaces are the constant binary “questions for the debate”: free will or predestination, free markets or government control, etc. People would “debate”
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Which is why the prices of these conferences—especially around registration fees—is so jarring. I know many young scholars who go into debt to attend academic conferences for an interview, or
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Many of the systems in the academy are upper class: the assumption that you know how to network, that you have disposable income to go to a conference, that you
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One thing I’ve learned over the years is that academic conferences, on average, will run you $1,000. Between membership (which is typically separate from registration fees), travel, hotel, and food
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