Book chapter
My Life as a Wonk
Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies, pp.217-225
University of Illinois Press
10/01/2016
DOI: 10.5406/j.ctt1hfr0dd.20
Abstract
We should not labor under the illusion that there is a significant public audience for most of the work we do as historians. This is partly a consequence of our writing style. While exceptions abound, there can be little argument with the assessment, as Nicholas Kristof put it in 2014, that the academy has “fostered a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience.”¹ This is partly a consequence of venue. Much of what we write—regardless of its quality or accessibility—is squirrelled away in scholarly monographs that are overpriced and under-promoted; in scholarly journals that cower
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- My Life as a Wonk
- Creators
- Colin Gordon - University of Iowa, History
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies, pp.217-225
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI
- 10.5406/j.ctt1hfr0dd.20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- History; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984252656402771
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