Christine Folch

Category: Scholarly Life

  • Performance Without Community is Suspect, Hispanopía, and What the Jessica Krug Debacle Reveals about Academia

    Performance Without Community is Suspect, Hispanopía, and What the Jessica Krug Debacle Reveals about Academia

    Simply put, this is what happens when there’s not enough diversity in leadership positions throughout academia. In fact, it is a result of a kind of myopia, hispanopía—the “grotesque structural exclusions of Latinx faculty” in the academy, a term coined by a committee of Latinx faculty at the University of Texas to describe just that.[1]…

  • International Research Travel with an Infant

    International Research Travel with an Infant

    I’m an anthropologist. Almost by definition that means I travel a lot for research. And, to be completely honest, that’s not incidental… it’s one of the reasons I was drawn to this life. But this year, it’s different. Unlike the dozens of previous research trips I’ve taken, this summer we have a little one of…

  • Engaged Research in Paraguay: How & Why

    At the end of a lively question and answer exchange, a college-aged member of the crowd raised his hand and asked me the hardest question I’ve even gotten about my research on Itaipú Dam and renewable energy, “Vos que no sos Paraguay, ¿Qué opinás? ¿Qué debemos hacer?” You’re not Paraguayan, [but] what do you think?…

  • Ph.D. Advice: How to pick classes in grad school

    Much like my anthro article that’s about to come out in print, I’ve been working on this “advice for grad students” for *several* years. It’s time, I think, for it to face greater scrutiny. Nota bene: this perspective assumes that the goal is to get a job in academia and, because I’m in the interpretive…