I'm going to post for Lorraine Kenny as she is having trouble getting the system to accept:
Lorraine Kenny Lorraine Kenny 10:46am Jun 16 I tried posting a comment, but I don't think it accepted my post. Is there something I need to do in order to post? I was responding to the post about those of us working outside of academia. I think it would be a great idea to include these voices in the Hist Con history. As someone who has worked for the ACLU for the past 11 years, I think this is an important part of the Hist Con legacy. I am now the Sr. Program Strategist for the ACLU's Center for Liberty. In this capacity I'm charged with building program across several ACLU legal projects, including LGBT, HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights, Religious Freedom, and Reproductive Freedom. My work is cross-disciplinary at its core.
Note: I think those of you outside Academia are perhaps doing the most important work of all. Ramona
After leaving the Cabrillo anthropology faculty in 1987 ("Jarvis-Gann Sabbatical") I was a data analyst for the County of Santa Cruz, and a member of SEIU Local 415. I retired in 2006. During my years away from academia I continued to do interdisciplinary research, primarily in cultural ethnography (Border Studies) and had a paper published in 1999. I like to tell more recent graduates of Hist Con that nothing can STOP us from doing interdisciplinary research, whether from within the academy or outside, as long as we are sustained by our own passionate interest and that of our colleagues.
I'm going to post for Lorraine Kenny as she is having trouble getting the system to accept:
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Lorraine Kenny 10:46am Jun 16
I tried posting a comment, but I don't think it accepted my post. Is there something I need to do in order to post? I was responding to the post about those of us working outside of academia. I think it would be a great idea to include these voices in the Hist Con history. As someone who has worked for the ACLU for the past 11 years, I think this is an important part of the Hist Con legacy. I am now the Sr. Program Strategist for the ACLU's Center for Liberty. In this capacity I'm charged with building program across several ACLU legal projects, including LGBT, HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights, Religious Freedom, and Reproductive Freedom. My work is cross-disciplinary at its core.
Note: I think those of you outside Academia are perhaps doing the most important work of all. Ramona
After leaving the Cabrillo anthropology faculty in 1987 ("Jarvis-Gann Sabbatical") I was a data analyst for the County of Santa Cruz, and a member of SEIU Local 415. I retired in 2006. During my years away from academia I continued to do interdisciplinary research, primarily in cultural ethnography (Border Studies) and had a paper published in 1999. I like to tell more recent graduates of Hist Con that nothing can STOP us from doing interdisciplinary research, whether from within the academy or outside, as long as we are sustained by our own passionate interest and that of our colleagues.
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