If you heard our interview with Erin Bartram on Episode 37 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast you will, at times, hear the pain in her voice as she comes to the end of her career as an...
Erin Bartram posts
How to Advise Ph.D Students
Many of you recall Erin Bartram‘s viral post about her decision to leave academia. We blogged about it here and will be talking to Erin in a forthcoming episode of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Her recent piece...
*Inside Higher Ed* Covers the Erin Bartram Blog Post on Leaving Academia
We blogged about this yesterday. Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of “Calling Academe’s Bluff.” Janet Watson, an associate professor of history at UConn, worked with Bartram in graduate school and reached out to her about her...
Erin Bartram: “The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind”
I am a big Erin Bartram fan. We have been on a panel together. She has written multiple posts here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I have learned a lot from her about teaching. Frankly, I can’t think...
Erin Bartram on Day Three at AHA 2015:
The American Converts Database Here is Erin’s final post from AHA 2015:–JF Now that I’m home and sifting through the pile of handouts, pamphlets, and business cards I picked up over the last few days, it’s time to write my […]
Erin Bartram’s Busy Day at AHA 2015
Erin Bartram is back. Â As some of you read this, Erin will be presenting at American Society of Church History session “American Religion Online: How Digital Projects Can Change How We Teach, Research, and Interpret Religious History.” Â I am looking...
Erin Bartram on the First Day of the 2015 AHA
I am once again happy to have Erin Bartram, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Connecticut, blogging at The Way of Improvement Leads Home this weekend. Â You can read her bio and access a link to her posts at...
New Blog: The Digital Grad Lounge
You may remember Erin Bartram and Mary Sanders from our AHA coverage here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Erin is a doctoral student in history at the University of Connecticut and Mary is a doctoral student in history...
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (8)
Erin Bartram checks in after a busy Saturday at the AHA –JF I attended a fascinating panel this morning entitled “Liberal and Evangelical Women, Social Reform, and the Problem of Categorization” The four panelists asked us to consider whether or...
The “Way of Improvement Leads Home” AHA Blogging Team
It has been a great weekend of blogging and tweeting at the AHA-New Orleans 2013. I will be around tomorrow, but I am not sure if I will be tweeting or covering any sessions. I may spend my morning trying...
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (5)
Erin Bartram reports on a Friday session on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. –JF I spent the early part of the morning practicing my own paper in front of the mirror in my hotel room, and then headed...
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (4)
Erin Bartram weighs in on Thursday afternoon panel on Canadian Catholic Influences in America –JF This afternoon, I attended a panel on Canadian Catholic influences in America which provoked a lively discussion on borderlands, cultural transformation, and identity politics. Molly […]
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (3)
In this dispatch, Erin Bartram and Mary Sanders team up to report on a Thursday afternoon panel on “Tuning the History Curriculum.” After I (Mary) picked Erin up at the airport yesterday, we started playing our favorite AHA game: “Guess...
Dispatches from the AHA in New Orleans (1)
The Way of Improvement Leads Home is already hard at work at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans. Erin Bartram is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Connecticut where she is studying 19th century […]