Shamira Gelbman

Ffs

Back for a week in the shtetl

Same: I'm happy to talk to your students about anything #TheCivilRightsLobby- related

Book: tupress.temple.edu/books/the-ci...

Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just turned in my #BaxterHall key; we'll see if my sabbatical home in Center Hall lives up to the hype

I'm told this was historically the College president's office 👀

Speaking of Hoosiers and historical markers, Capital Chronicle just ran a piece on markers in Indiana: indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/21/i...

My favorite IN marker is the Joaquin Miller one in Lebanon:

Good day for a hike! 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ 🦋

The Mai Wah museum in Butte, Montana

Finally some good porch weather 📚 🍺

I mean, clickbait should make you want to click, not roll your eyes and move on 🤷‍♀️

Did not have the "the left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid" on my 2025 bingo card 🙄

I'm sorry for your loss 🙁

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Turns out realizing it's already August is stressful even when you're on sabbatical

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yikes 🙁

At some point we started valuing the work being done over doing the work, and here we are 🤷‍♀️

Mary Gereau, 89; Lobbyist on Education, ERA

Adding to my wish list of biographies someone should write
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For years I have been saying we must get rid of course evaluations. Lots of good tools for qualitative confidential feedback. But the bureaucratic centralized course evaluation is a tool for replicating bigotry.

If you have power in your department or institution, now is a moment to follow through and remove them from your process.

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Congratulations!

That's what they mean by Hoosier Hospitality 🤷

So this (and many of the replies/quote posts) will be interesting to talk about the next time I teach Governing Wabash College (Spring 2027? IDK)

A Classics course called "Greek and Latin Roots of English"

It will be a while until I teach it again, but this will be a great example for #PSC211 Election Polling and Public Opinion

Join us in New Orleans for the SPSA 2026 Annual Conference, January 14-17. Submit proposals by September 1, and book your stay at the Hilton Riverside. Registration for the conference is now open.

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Congrats!

Getting students conscious of this tendency does seem to have an effect in subsequent assignments/discussions, but it's an interesting/troubling sign of the times that this is necessary

I've started calling them out on it in #PSC111 -- this slide is from discussion of an early-semester reading about the state of democracy in the US and world

Right. But also, I'm mulling it over in light of a trend I've been noticing among students: If I ask for their reaction (e.g., to a news story), they increasingly invariably state if it surprised them or not. One even once said, "I guess I don't have a reaction because it's not surprising to me."

Let me tell y’all about my frozen shoulder(s).

Twice now I’ve spent the better part of a year being unable to raise one or the other arm above shoulder height. Or bend it up my back.

This has meant that fairly simple tasks have become impossible.

The humidity is real 🚶‍♀️🥵