Special thanks to Krista McCracken, Jessica Knapp, Maddie Knickerbocker, and Lee Blanding for helping me develop the ideas in this blog post.
This week marks the third anniversary of the creation of Unwritten Histories! In past years, we’ve celebrated in a couple of different ways. For our first anniversary, we took at a look at the first year of Unwritten Histories by the numbers. For our second anniversary, we profiled some amazing women-identified graduate students and recent graduates working across the country. I have to admit, I’ve been struggling to figure out what to do this year. But in light of recent events at the NCPH and in the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program at Yale, and after having some long talks with my amazing friends, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to imagine what my ideal academic world would look like. Since this is a blog post, and you know that I am interested in practical solutions, I’ve decided to focus on three qualities that I think my ideal academic world would embrace: kindness, bravery, and curiosity. Below I talk about each one of these in turn, and offer some suggestions about how we can bring these three qualities in our life today. While change doesn’t happen overnight, small interventions can make a big difference, and