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98% Chimp
2% machine, blue eyes, and Coke
Created on 2007-11-30 11:37:24 (#14360229), last updated 2008-02-16
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Basic Info| Name: | Cath |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 09-16 |
BioThese are the random thoughts of an academic, writer, teacher, woman.
Although I grew up in the West (born in CA, raised in CO) with a short stay in the suburbs of Washington, DC, I now live in lovely, scenic Staten Island, NY, with my zany husband and two wonderful kitties.
By day, I'm an associate professor of American history and director of the American Studies Program at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CSI-CUNY). By night, I'm an insomniac with a penchant for making things (beading, silverwork, assemblage, crooked and wonky knitting) and watching old movies while making things (All About Eve and anything with pirates swordfighting work for me!).
In 2006, I published my first monograph (Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest, UNM Press), and before that, I published a co-edited collection called The Western Women's Reader with HarperCollins and a textbook/reader with Fulcrum. I'm supposed to be writing my second monograph during my current (2007-2008) sabbatical year, and I'm having a bit of a struggle staying focused. Between navigating the long road to tenure, meeting my teaching responsibilities, and dealing with ever-changing family responsibilities (aging parents, ahoy!), I am a tad burnt-out!
I've created this journal to write a bit about work, what I'm writing, watching, hearing, reading, thinking, and doing (and, more to the point, avoiding doing!). I'm hoping that this will help me to focus my writing process a bit more, as it's been very scattershot so far. I've been doing research on this project off and on over the past decade, and it's hard when you have that much research compiled to condense it into a book; also, there are two very strong narrative pulls going on in the story, and I have to make a commitment to one or the other and am having a crisis over which way to go. Perhaps writing about that feeling of being stalled will help me get started again in the right direction.
Whew, that's enough. If you want to know more, just read the journal.
Oh, and also: I am 98% chimp. The other 2% of me is mostly machine, blue eyes, and Coke.
Although I grew up in the West (born in CA, raised in CO) with a short stay in the suburbs of Washington, DC, I now live in lovely, scenic Staten Island, NY, with my zany husband and two wonderful kitties.
By day, I'm an associate professor of American history and director of the American Studies Program at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CSI-CUNY). By night, I'm an insomniac with a penchant for making things (beading, silverwork, assemblage, crooked and wonky knitting) and watching old movies while making things (All About Eve and anything with pirates swordfighting work for me!).
In 2006, I published my first monograph (Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest, UNM Press), and before that, I published a co-edited collection called The Western Women's Reader with HarperCollins and a textbook/reader with Fulcrum. I'm supposed to be writing my second monograph during my current (2007-2008) sabbatical year, and I'm having a bit of a struggle staying focused. Between navigating the long road to tenure, meeting my teaching responsibilities, and dealing with ever-changing family responsibilities (aging parents, ahoy!), I am a tad burnt-out!
I've created this journal to write a bit about work, what I'm writing, watching, hearing, reading, thinking, and doing (and, more to the point, avoiding doing!). I'm hoping that this will help me to focus my writing process a bit more, as it's been very scattershot so far. I've been doing research on this project off and on over the past decade, and it's hard when you have that much research compiled to condense it into a book; also, there are two very strong narrative pulls going on in the story, and I have to make a commitment to one or the other and am having a crisis over which way to go. Perhaps writing about that feeling of being stalled will help me get started again in the right direction.
Whew, that's enough. If you want to know more, just read the journal.
Oh, and also: I am 98% chimp. The other 2% of me is mostly machine, blue eyes, and Coke.
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american studies, books, cats, citizenship, class, community supported agriculture, consciousness, creative nonfiction, cultural studies, cultural theory., democracy, exchange, faith, feminism, folk music, fossicking, gender, globalism, grunge, history, leftism, liberalism, lo-fi, medium-tech, music, music boxes, nonfiction, playwriting, punk, reading, slow culture, slow food, social change, social disobedience, social justice, socialism, tea, theatre, thrifting, transformation, travel, virtual classrooms, western history, western literature, women's history, women's literature, writing
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University of Colorado, Graduate School - Boulder - Boulder, CO (1991 - 1997)
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