[This coming
weekend will mark this
blog’s 7-year anniversary (my November 5th debut post on Du Bois
has unfortunately vanished). In honor of that milestone, I wanted to spend the
week highlighting some of the many wonderful academic
and scholarly bloggers to whom this work has happily connected me. Leading
up to a few reflections on my work, past and future, in this space!]
On three ways
you can read the unique, important, and compelling voice of the University of South Carolina
History PhD student and one of my earliest
Guest Posters.
1)
The United
States Intellectual History (USIH) blog: I first encountered Robert’s work
through the USIH blog, one of the most lively, rigorous, and exemplary digital
public scholarly conversations and communities I know. His posts for USIH have
consistently illustrated his ability to weave together African American,
Southern, and American history, intellectual and philosophical history, and
popular culture, among other threads of his powerfully interdisciplinary work.
I don’t really want to highlight just one, but will note that one
of his most recent posts, on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, significantly
shifted my sense of Coates and his writing moving forward, which is the kind of
perspectival change I almost always get from reading Robert.
2)
His own blog, Forty Acres and a Starship:
Honestly, if that title alone doesn’t make you want to check out Robert’s
personal scholarly blog, I don’t know what to tell you! I’m certainly Robert’s
ideal audience for such a blog, combining as it does sci fi and other “nerd”
genres with history, American Studies, and many related topics. But everybody
can learn a great deal from Robert’s interests and intersections, and we see a
particularly compelling version of them on his personal blog.
3)
Everywhere else!: Over the last couple years,
Robert has become one of the most prolific public scholarly writers I know, and
so you can also read his work in Jacobin, The Nation, The Atlantic,
and In These Times,
to name just a few such spaces. Each and every such piece is well worth your
time, but together they truly illustrate the possibility and value of public
scholarly and digital writing and engagement.
Next scholarly
blogger tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Bloggers,
scholarly or otherwise, you’d highlight?
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