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Detail from Futurefarmers (Amy Franceschini, Joe Riley and Audrey Snyder), “Flatbread Society: Provisioning” (2014), sculpture, documents, and printed material (all images courtesy Nadiah Fellah unless otherwise noted) What goes West must always return...

When I ran Sire Records and then Reprise bands often asked me if I would be the executive producer of their album. I never felt comfortable doing it-- showing that kind of perceived favoritism when I was responsible for all the bands and all their albums...

American universities award more than 60,000 doctoral degrees every year. However, there are not enough academic jobs for all those graduates. One study asserts that only 41 percent of Ph.D.s will find tenure-track positions. Some studies are slightly...

Revival This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. Now for a little history you never wanted. I had many fellowships while I was a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Grad Center from...