I wrote about 18 pages today of my article about The Deadliest Catch. its called "Crabby: The tensions of Command, Commerce and Democracy on the Crab Boats of The Deadliest Catch." The idea is that the crab boat is an autocratic institution. The Captain is, to borrow from the President, the decider. yet, the men who crew the crab boat are from a democratic-capitalist culture. Thus working on a crab boat involves the sublimation of the culture of the individual in support of the efficiency of the group.
Now, captains should be able to act in an autocratic method. but i argue that the captains of the crab boat, for all their statements saying "this is not a democracy" still negotiate with their crews and have to prove their own legitimacy.
I am using the theories from the research I conducted on military command. There are a lot of similarities between the military and the crab boats (in both, a hierarchical institution replaces a democratic citizen culture.) Once it takes a final form, it should be really good. The theories are pretty cool and the examples really tie everything together.
This is my first adventure into the world of Popular Culture Studies. I think there may be a presentation in this topic (command in the workplace, as seen on tv) that I can bring to the regional PCA (Popular Culure Association) conference.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Great News. Abstract Accepted. Athens 2008!
Today I received an email from the editors of the International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism stating that they had accepted my abstract for eventual article publication. The first step was to send in an abstract for a special issue on Digital Culture and Cultural Heritage: Archives, Museums and Art - New Technologies, New Channels, New Culture.
I submitted an abstract proposing to write an article concerning my experience in using digital photography in the Riksarkivet, Stockholm. The editors also wanted to know if I will be able to present the paper at a special conference in Athens, Greece in the Spring of 2008. That presentation will then be turned into a chapter in a book published as part of the conference proceedings. So this one paper has become three different scholarly projects.
I also received a call from Dr. Barthold, the Chair of the History Department at Camden County College. He left a message stating he wants to "touch base" and set up a meeting for friday. This friday I will be meeting with the Dean of Faculty and the President of the College. Dr. Barthold wants to meet at sometime prior to my meeting with the administration. He said the meeting with the administration should go about two hours.
I left a message at Dr. Barthold's office.
its not that great of a message. For some reason I do not sound very good on a message. I know I am not alone out there. But i sound stilted and unsure on a message and not my normal declarative self.
I submitted an abstract proposing to write an article concerning my experience in using digital photography in the Riksarkivet, Stockholm. The editors also wanted to know if I will be able to present the paper at a special conference in Athens, Greece in the Spring of 2008. That presentation will then be turned into a chapter in a book published as part of the conference proceedings. So this one paper has become three different scholarly projects.
I also received a call from Dr. Barthold, the Chair of the History Department at Camden County College. He left a message stating he wants to "touch base" and set up a meeting for friday. This friday I will be meeting with the Dean of Faculty and the President of the College. Dr. Barthold wants to meet at sometime prior to my meeting with the administration. He said the meeting with the administration should go about two hours.
I left a message at Dr. Barthold's office.
its not that great of a message. For some reason I do not sound very good on a message. I know I am not alone out there. But i sound stilted and unsure on a message and not my normal declarative self.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Finalist at Camden County College
I got the call yesterday. I am a finalist for the Camden County College position. I will meet with the president and the dean of faculty. I am one of the last three. I think my interview went well, I sent a thank you note with an addendum (future classes and scholarship) which i hope was well received.
next friday i will go down there, take the 3-4 hour drive and meet with the committee. it would be nice to get the job offer. i have told the st josephs people about this and a few other jobs that are out there.
camden has been very nice and it is a tenure track college job. its a 5-5 semester (probably with an overload) . the schedule is better, theres more money, theres more of a future in it. and its in a college with is what i have been striving towards for the last 10 years. i could make my own schedule, it would give me time to work on the Charles X archives. I could even apply for a fulbright. maybe to latvia, estonia or malta (do a paper on the Knights of Malta) or slovenia.
i think either way things work out.
beth told me about diane (who just finished and was ABD when I started grad school) who was able to negotiate a 3 (or was it a 2) class first semester to help her ease in. I think thats a really good idea and something i would like to discuss with the chair should i get hired. Instead of a 5 I would like to teach a 3 and then turn the time into various jobs:
find an apartment and move in.
finish the dissertation and other papers / articles.
get set up for conferences.
apply for some grants and maybe a fulbright to begin work on Charles X arkives
join college and department committees
revamp my classes so that they are fresh and new.
develop a class or two for consideration in the summer or next fall.
its not like I want to sit on my butt with only a 3 schedule (and in the spring I'd teach a full 5 and probably an overload or two). in the meantime I'd like to work on scholarship and other college related purposes. right now I'm spending the time on finishing the dissertation. It would be nice to have the time to convert from scholarship to teaching and really make a top flight up to date super class.
next friday i will go down there, take the 3-4 hour drive and meet with the committee. it would be nice to get the job offer. i have told the st josephs people about this and a few other jobs that are out there.
camden has been very nice and it is a tenure track college job. its a 5-5 semester (probably with an overload) . the schedule is better, theres more money, theres more of a future in it. and its in a college with is what i have been striving towards for the last 10 years. i could make my own schedule, it would give me time to work on the Charles X archives. I could even apply for a fulbright. maybe to latvia, estonia or malta (do a paper on the Knights of Malta) or slovenia.
i think either way things work out.
beth told me about diane (who just finished and was ABD when I started grad school) who was able to negotiate a 3 (or was it a 2) class first semester to help her ease in. I think thats a really good idea and something i would like to discuss with the chair should i get hired. Instead of a 5 I would like to teach a 3 and then turn the time into various jobs:
find an apartment and move in.
finish the dissertation and other papers / articles.
get set up for conferences.
apply for some grants and maybe a fulbright to begin work on Charles X arkives
join college and department committees
revamp my classes so that they are fresh and new.
develop a class or two for consideration in the summer or next fall.
its not like I want to sit on my butt with only a 3 schedule (and in the spring I'd teach a full 5 and probably an overload or two). in the meantime I'd like to work on scholarship and other college related purposes. right now I'm spending the time on finishing the dissertation. It would be nice to have the time to convert from scholarship to teaching and really make a top flight up to date super class.
taught at st jospehs today
Hej. I did a practice teaching at st josephs. i thought i might be observed by the principal and the deans and the chair of the department but it was only the teacher I would replace.
I taught the Age of Exploration: the spanish conquest of america.
i think it went really well, i got the girls involved (its an all girls high school) and got several of them standing and writing of the boards. they were very involved. We did the who/what/when/where/how/why methodology. this way, we went point by point so it was pretty simple to follow.
the hardest thing wasn't the girls but the changing the lecture from a 75 min to 40 min lesson. I had to drop some details and watch the clock closely. i finished but not a lot of time was left at the end for review. but i think it went well and i heard the gossip from another teacher ( a nun, so i don't think she'd lie) who said some of the girls said "it was the best history class ever!") it was a nice compliment.
the reason for the class teach was to see if i could bring it down a notch from college. i taught the class, more or less, the same way as i do in the intro-non major classes. Jim, the teacher who is leaving, said I brought it down really well and he thinks the girls really understood. if i was to have them tomorrow I would start with a jeopardy style review.
the real question becomes pay and time. it seems like a really nice place to work. but everyone (from the chair, to the sisters, to other teachers) say that the school doesn't pay. you have to be able to "afford to work there". but if i could continue to teach nights at farmingdale and suffolk, that would bring in 7500 - 10,000$ more per semester. it would mean teaching 3-4 night classes. it would be a brutal year. now, I'm lucky enough that the college classes are on autopilot at this point. I've taught the same class for the last 6 years. so I know how it goes.
what would really take a beating would be scholarship. conferences. publications. the dissertation. It means the dissertation has to be done during the summer. i want it done by 1 july, so i'm still on schedule. but it has to be done. the kermit culture paper, the photo archive publication and the deadliest catch article would all have to be written early in the summer.
the scholarship i would do during the next year would be in translating parts of my dissertation into articles and maybe into a book. i would then present chapters at different conferences.
I taught the Age of Exploration: the spanish conquest of america.
i think it went really well, i got the girls involved (its an all girls high school) and got several of them standing and writing of the boards. they were very involved. We did the who/what/when/where/how/why methodology. this way, we went point by point so it was pretty simple to follow.
the hardest thing wasn't the girls but the changing the lecture from a 75 min to 40 min lesson. I had to drop some details and watch the clock closely. i finished but not a lot of time was left at the end for review. but i think it went well and i heard the gossip from another teacher ( a nun, so i don't think she'd lie) who said some of the girls said "it was the best history class ever!") it was a nice compliment.
the reason for the class teach was to see if i could bring it down a notch from college. i taught the class, more or less, the same way as i do in the intro-non major classes. Jim, the teacher who is leaving, said I brought it down really well and he thinks the girls really understood. if i was to have them tomorrow I would start with a jeopardy style review.
the real question becomes pay and time. it seems like a really nice place to work. but everyone (from the chair, to the sisters, to other teachers) say that the school doesn't pay. you have to be able to "afford to work there". but if i could continue to teach nights at farmingdale and suffolk, that would bring in 7500 - 10,000$ more per semester. it would mean teaching 3-4 night classes. it would be a brutal year. now, I'm lucky enough that the college classes are on autopilot at this point. I've taught the same class for the last 6 years. so I know how it goes.
what would really take a beating would be scholarship. conferences. publications. the dissertation. It means the dissertation has to be done during the summer. i want it done by 1 july, so i'm still on schedule. but it has to be done. the kermit culture paper, the photo archive publication and the deadliest catch article would all have to be written early in the summer.
the scholarship i would do during the next year would be in translating parts of my dissertation into articles and maybe into a book. i would then present chapters at different conferences.
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