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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
6/1/2023
Amid Anti-Woke Panic, Interdisciplinary Programs Inherently Vulnerable
by Timothy Messer-Kruse
Because standards of academic freedom like those of the AAUP tie that freedom to expertise within recognized professional communities of scholars, those doing interdisciplinary work and working in programs like ethnic studies have less institutional protection against charges that they are engaged in politics rather than scholarship.
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7/31/2022
Collegiality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Historian's Work
by Elizabeth Stice
Universities should encourage, and scholars should embrace, opportunities for collegial cooperation that encourage the lowering of the barriers to cross-disciplinary conversations. Both the researcher and the university will benefit.
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SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
9/9/2020
The Interdisciplinarity and Influence of Alan Trachtenberg
by Jennifer Giuliano and Lauren Tilton
"The need to interrogate, understand, and even disrupt how we see images is a part of Trachtenberg’s enduring legacy that becomes more important as researchers are distanced from physical archives." The work of Alan Trachtenberg in developing historical methodologies for understanding images is crucial for historians' ability to speak to current affairs.
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