Month: March 2012

The updated visiting faculty list for next year is available here.  Keep those updates coming to me so I can keep the list as current as possible (liptonj@duq.edu).

   

As I noted  over at Leiter, a wonderful young colleague of mine - Hunter Tart - passed away unexpectedly last week from a brief illness.  He was a visiting assistant…

 Well, another year is over; graduation is a sure sign of this, but for me one of the key markers of the end of the year is my dinner with…

This evening at 7 pm at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History here in Chapel Hill, Taylor Branch -- Pulitzer Prize winning author (and 1968 UNC…

I talk a lot about monuments here -- often about what the people who put them up were saying.  That's one of the reasons I so love the Gettysburg battlefield…

Long time readers of the faculty lounge may recall a blog post from 2010 about a lawsuit, based on the Native American Graves Repatriation Act, over Jim Thorpe's remains.  Should…

Or just a savvy politician? Brad Smith, an undergraduate political science student at the University of North Carolina, entertains himself during tournament lulls: Stated explicitly, the question I hope to…

For some years now I've been blogging about quick takes on the U.S. News rankings.  This week when the rankings came out I didn't have time to get to them,…

Thanks to a pointer from Danielle Citron, I learned about Margot Kaminski's latest ("Reading Over Your Shoulder: Social Readers and Privacy Law"), which deals with the problem of sharing (sometimes rather…