Photo Credit: Reagan Smith
Teaching at a public liberal arts college means that you teach a lot. Often, this
means teaching some of the same courses every year, perhaps every semester. These
courses are often a requirement in a major, and perhaps also the core. This familiarity
and experience can be a benefit, helping …
Jessica Park in her bedroom studio, 2004; image of Chrysler Building on drafting board
Prologue It was a warm and inviting Berkshire afternoon in May of 2004. On the
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts campus I stood in the doorway of the 94 Porter
Street Gallery that opened to the building’s backyard, where a …
On July 29, 2014 Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard K. Jones sent a letter to Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto and Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs José Antonio
Meade Kuribrena. This letter reads like an invoice demanding $900,000 from the Mexican
government for “dealing with your criminals.” Sheriff Jones wrote a similar letter
in 2010, …
This writing marks the beginning of my work for a sabbatical leave in Spring 2019.
My general interests are primarily in environmental issues and education. For my sabbatical,
I am specifically focused on education of the emotion disgust. There is a tendency
to think of our primary emotions – happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and
…
