In the wake of the presidential election this month, we’ve seen the emergence of an entire genre of post-mortem analyses, written with the blithe confidence…| The Tattooed Professor
There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…| The Tattooed Professor
For a long time, I’ve been moving in the direction of ungrading. I’ve long known that grades, traditionally-defined and used, don’t reflect actual learning, and…| The Tattooed Professor
It’s been fifteen months since I’ve updated this blog, and yet the tut-tutting discourse around so-called “trigger warnings” is still with us. And, like almost…| The Tattooed Professor
What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester? This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a…| The Tattooed Professor
I was recently a guest on the Tea For Teaching podcast, and we had a great time talking about my new book, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto,…| The Tattooed Professor
History is a lot of things, but perhaps nothing so much as the practice of organized forgetting. No matter what methods historians use to research,…| The Tattooed Professor
For Part One, click HERE. For Part Two, click HERE. In the first two parts of this series, I looked at both the larger philosophical…| The Tattooed Professor
[Click here to read Part One] In the 1970s, neoliberalism came into its own as a coherent ideological platform and political-economic policy toolkit. As politicians,…| The Tattooed Professor
Which things, tell me, are yours? Whence have you brought your goods into life? You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who should prohibit others from entering, treating that as his own w…| The Tattooed Professor
Embed from Getty Images I’m Kevin Gannon, and as of July 11, 2022, I serve as the new Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) and Professor of History at Queen…| The Tattooed Professor
