things i have done in the last ten days, a selected list:
written: 6,000 words on comparative political psychology(ies); 2,000 words on american party ideologies (do they exist?); 2,000 words of research design on international interventions in domestic institutions; 2,000 words of a grant proposal; 1,000 words on the microfoundations of public opinion
prepped: searchable database of information for said grant proposal; financial aid and faculty support statistics for said grant proposal.
read: gerring, party ideologies in america; zaller, the nature and origins of mass opinion; erikson, mackuen, stimson, the macro polity; ten articles on political decision-making; asad, formations of the secular; geertz, "ideology as a cultural system;" lewis, ecstatic religions; james, varieties of religious experience (portions); mcadam, political process and the development of black insurgency (portions); gill, "rendering unto caesar? religious competition and catholic political strategy in latin america;" rowling, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban; tolstoy, anna karenina (100 pages to go); kidder, mountains beyond mountains (yes, again); the new york times; the economist; the atlantic monthly; the blogs; the anthropologie catalog.
seen: cronenberg, a history of violence; 15 minutes of alias.
drunk: gallons of water; gallons of coffee; 2 miller high life; some fancy ass martini thing; 2 cape cods (see below at "been to").
been to: political economy lunch; qualitative methods workshop; eight hours class; six hours rehearsal; rudy's (three times -- see above at "drunk"); caffe bottega; cafe adulis (overpriced and underspiced); the beach; stop & shop; trinity episcopal.
sung: mahler, "resurrection;" mader, "the fifth mystery;" several hymns; wilco, lucinda williams and eastmountainsouth, out loud, along with my ipod, on my way home late at night, uptight people in my neighborhood and their weird looks be damned.
run: 12.5 miles (five times out).
organized: kickass swat alum potluck.
felt: trampled; exhilarated; whatever the adjective form of "protestant work ethic" is.
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.