new haven is a lot less colorful than this article would have you believe. (although it is sort of fun that i knew exactly who about half the characters were. the flower lady complimented my coat the other day!)
as the blurb attests, this place suffers from serious delusions of grandeur. even a midwesterner such as myself understands that, with a population of about 120,000, it cannot and will never qualify it as a "minor major" american city, despite clam pizza, the cotton gin, or the vast number of powerful people who spent four years here.
also, if i were in fargo i wouldn't be looking at spending $750 a month on a one-bedroom apartment. sigh.
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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.