Steven Kale

European historian, especially France, former chair, retired.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@DavidAstinWalsh When I was chair the admin demanded that we articulate how history promoted career success. All the nonsense rationales we came up with had nothing to do with wokeness. It was all about specific careers that history major might pursue.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@CrotserJeremiah The state of scholarship (of some professors in some disciplines) and the crisis facing the humanities (budgets, enrollments, hiring, publishing, etc) are only very tenuously related.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@tonyannett The first Allied soldiers to land in Normandy were airborne and glider troops who arrived hours before the amphibious beach landings. The first specific unit to touch down was D Company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (British).

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@Tyler_A_Harper My "woke" colleagues didn't care one bit about about debt/tuition. They wanted to delegitimize an earlier generation of scholars so that they could rethink their fields and write about new things (or find new dissertation topics).

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@acaguy The state of scholarship (of some professors in some disciplines) and the crisis facing the humanities (budgets, enrollments, hiring, publishing, etc) are only very tenuously related.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@Tyler_A_Harper The state of scholarship (of some professors in some disciplines) and the crisis facing the humanities (budgets, enrollments, hiring, publishing, etc) are only very tenuously related.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@mkazin @yeselson The state of scholarship (of some professors in some disciplines) and the crisis facing the humanities (budgets, enrollments, hiring, publishing, etc) are only very tenuously related.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@JohnDSailer This report seems to seek internal causes for developments which are largely the result of external economic and cultural forces. Students who chose not to major in the humanities have only the slightest understanding of what is going on inside disciplines.

[James Conran @JamesConran1]

This is just how they bury sociologists in France.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@ianbremmer They're led by stupid people.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@_ericblanc Work is the principal node of social connection, and everybody needs money.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@DavidAstinWalsh But not history. She's a Political Scientist.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@DavidAstinWalsh The study of the Right in my field (modern France) was very much a minority niche that was regarded with some suspicion when I wrote my diss. on royalists in the 1980s I did get a TT job. In any event, this is no longer the case.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We have plenty of ideoogical diversity in the college. The old white guys claim the college is ageist, faculty of color claim institutional racism, and women faculty claim sexism. Meanwhile, we cut tenure track faculty lines and increasing hire adjuncts to cover our courses.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@samhaselby What sort of capitalism did fascists oppose?

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@RobertTalisse All things being equal, a professor is someone whose greatest frustration is having to purchase a parking permit.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@matthewstoller Graham Platner will be able to accomplish neither.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@samhaselby He seems to assume that the only two alternatives are a world in which Israel exists and one in which it does not.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@jamestalarico Trump was indicted and he won.

[Steven Kale @StevenKale16]

@DavidAstinWalsh Anyone seeking an answer to this question would do better than this by asking ChatGPT.