hail mary
Just turned in the form to the history department that indicates my intent to give up my otherwise-guaranteed funding for the next school year. Lost: $10,000 in funding for tuition and fees; $14,500 in stipend funding. Gained: time, glorious unencumbered time, to read and research during my third year of grad school, since I won't have to work as a (deleted word) teaching assistant.Now I just have to figure out a way to come up with $25,000 to replace the funding I'm giving up.
Hmm.
This would be a good time for the Bray family to reveal the existence of any exciting trust funds that have been kept secret. I won't let it spoil me, I swear.
Or there's always the night shift at the 7-11.
posted by Chris Bray @ 4:04 PM
10 Comments:
This, my dear Bray, is why you are in the wrong subfield. History of science, a burgeoning field with many possibilities, calls for your genius. Let us woo you with thousands of dollars, and for the mere price of one useless soul.
The National Science Foundation loves you, not the American History Association. Just my take on it.
Plus, American history isn't "real" history anyway. America, what is that anyway? Superpower my foot.
I'm intrigued -- tell me more about this mysterious "science."
There are rocketships and stars and particles and paradoxes, transmutations and anxiety and atomic bombs and eugenics, geology and craniometry and telepathy and telephony...
but the most amazing thing about it must certainly be...
getting to spend more class time with ME!
Has the department yet mandated that history of science be spelled with quoatation marks arround "history"?
I thought the quotation marks went around "science"....
I think the quotation marks go with science when something is a social "science."
"The Meth Lab as a Gendered Site of Social Constructivism: Toward a Cultural Hermeneutic of Illicit Science, 1995-2002."
Chris Bray
PhD Dissertation, History of Science, 2023.
So, like, how much cash could I score for something like that?
I don't know, maybe 2, 3 million. It depends on the job market at the time. I wouldn't go for anything less than 1.5 though.
Have you entertained the idea of
"The reflexivities of boundary-creation and boundary-maintenance: A cultural tale of scientific colonialism in a boundary object, a biotechnology lab"
"Reading the Epistemic Membrane: Permeability and Transgressivity in the Discursive Construction of Scientific 'Knowledge.'"
Dude, academics should be paid by the word.
You know what's weird? I ALMOST used the word "Membrane" in my title.
We are so... one.
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