[For this year’s Thanksgiving series, I wanted to express thanks for a handful of opportunities I’ve had to connect with scholarly communities this Fall. Leading up to a special tribute to my two most important scholarly influences!]
Here in my
19th
year at Fitchburg State, there is of course no shortage of communities and
influences I could highlight as important to my work and career. But I want to
focus for this post on two very distinct but complementary examples from this
Fall semester in particular. In September, I was invited to give a talk on
exclusion & inclusion in the American Founding as part of our excellent Constitution
Day (really Constitution Week) series, and in the audience were current
students of mine, my academic Dean, and our institutional Director of
Communications and Public Affairs. Talk about feeling supported in our
individual work! And in October, I took part in a panel of faculty from across
campus who are part of our new Digital
Media Innovation program, a great example of evolving FSU communities that
both feature my work and can help me continue thinking (as I did on this panel)
about what it means to be a digital and online public scholar. Two of so many
ongoing examples of FSU’s communities and influences in my career and life!
Next
Thanks-giving tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Communities
(or anything else) you’re thankful for this year?
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