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*Free, accessible resources like Citizendium. My hope is that such resources (and CZ in particular) might be clearinghouses for scholarly, up-to-date information, so that independent scholars might have the resources they need, secondary teachers might enrich their teaching, and academic scholars themselves might venture a little further beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. | *Free, accessible resources like Citizendium. My hope is that such resources (and CZ in particular) might be clearinghouses for scholarly, up-to-date information, so that independent scholars might have the resources they need, secondary teachers might enrich their teaching, and academic scholars themselves might venture a little further beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. | ||
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Revision as of 09:13, 23 April 2008
I am an American student and a medievalist; my academic research is mainly the transmission of Ancient, Byzantine and Islamic knowledge into the Latin West, but I am also interested in Western intellectual and cultural history more generally.
My undergraduate degree is in Greek and Latin (B.A. Kenyon College, 2005). I worked on Hellenistic Greek poetry, and Theocritus in particular, but I also spent a number of years on Sanskrit and Sanskrit literature.
ManifestoHaving spent a large amount of time outside the academy, and coming from a non-academic family, I deeply believe that critical thinking, intelligence and creativity are not confined within the academy. At the same time, though, I feel that lay readers and independent scholars frequently have a difficult time obtaining credible information, and they sometimes lack the resources to make use of the materials they can lay hold of. The internet greatly improves this state of affairs, but there are still many things that could be done, online and off, to make things even better:
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