Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. For more information on her scholarship and research, see the "About" page or download her CV. For information on her teaching, please visit her official university Web page.
February 27th, 2012

Talking about Technocracy

Readers of this blog know that I’ve fretted a fair bit about recent invocations of “innovation” as an economic engine,  finding this recessionary return of Yankee Ingenuity to be  short on attention to issues of sustainability, corporate privilege, and the inequities of global labor markets.  But this selective vision is really part of a much [...]

February 17th, 2012

STEM Equity: In Search of Trend Setters

Close your eyes and imagine a biology department or engineering school where every single one of the following policy changes has been implemented:

….universities might educate women graduate students about the downsides of alternative career paths, following partners’ career moves and taking time off. They could explore the use of part-time tenure-track positions for women [...]