{"id":2107,"date":"2016-01-09T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2016-01-09T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:20:54","slug":"new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2016\/01\/09\/new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside my new house, which is currently full of half-unpacked boxes and lamps waiting to be reunited with their shades, there\u2019s a palm tree. If you go out and descend the fourteen steps from the front door, you\u2019ll pass a series of low houses, and, finding yourself at the corner of a shady boulevard, you can arrive, after another minute, at a large sign reading Whittier College<\/a>, where I\u2019ve just started working as a postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\n

I got hired largely because I had a background in both anthropology and web programming. These past few years, while I was finishing my dissertation, I was also working full-time as a web applications programmer for the University of Chicago\u2019s Humanities Division<\/a>. Mainly I built administrative applications for them \u2014 internal software to keep track of student progress, keys, endowments, course scheduling, that sort of thing. I also worked on some research projects — Scrolling Paintings<\/a> and the Digital Media Archive<\/a> were the most interesting — and used a bunch of handy technology, like ansible, solr, ruby on rails, ember.js, drupal, shibboleth, LDAP, nginx, postgres, or redis. It was an unusual job, because a lot of universities don’t have in-house software development, but I learned a lot there.<\/p>\n

In any event, my new job in Whittier is half in the Anthropology Department<\/a> and half in the Digital Liberal Arts Center<\/a>. This spring I’m teaching a class on digital cultures, and next fall, I’m thinking of teaching a class on anthropology of education, and another about web programming. And I’m working on a couple of book projects coming out of my dissertation \u2014 one’s going to be about the French faculty protest movement in 2009, the other about the Philosophy Department at Paris 8 \u2014 and hope to be able to blog much more regularly, at last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outside my new house, which is currently full of half-unpacked boxes and lamps waiting to be reunited with their shades, there\u2019s a palm tree. If you go out and descend the fourteen steps from the front door, you\u2019ll pass a series of low houses, and, finding yourself at the corner of a shady boulevard, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[493,494,497],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}