Connor Ewing
@ConnorMEwing
American Political Thought & Constitutional Development | Assistant Professor of Political Science @UofT | Fellow @Trinity_College | Full-time toddler chaser
My article is now up on #FirstView @APSRjournal. My hope is that it will be of interest to anyone who works with or thinks about The Federalist, the American founding, or the Constitution. Here’s a brief 🧵 on its 3 key arguments: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE) we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link in tweet #2 if you’d like to join.
We've come to expect headlines like this from directional universities and even state flagships. But this is new, and worrying.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Just put a paragraph of a current manuscript into one of those AI detectors. Welp.
No crow hop. No extra step. Just pure arm strength.
I’ve watched this 50 times and it gets more unbelievable every time.
Not gonna lie—I'd go to a gallery show of DJT doodles
I wish he wasn't so interesting
Lots of professors need to hear this advice too.
Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students: Always be kind and respectful when interacting with the department administrative staff
UC Berkeley is hiring an Assistant Professor this fall, with a preference for candidates in International Relations, American Politics, or Public Law. I am on the committee and glad to answer questions. Please apply! Link in next post.
I have written a tribut to Richard Fallon--one of the greats. He was my teacher 40 years ago and became a dear friend and treasured colleague. @CassSunstein @TaraLeighGrove1
Richard Fallon, In Memoriam, buff.ly/6WxLugJ - A tribute to the great scholar and dear friend.
New Paper with @WilliamBaude , forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: "Yes, The Framers Were Originalists" A critical review of Jonathan Gienapp (@TheGNapp)'s Against Constitutional Originalism. @SSRN link below, and comments welcome!
TCU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics. Come work with me! Reach out with any questions: tinyurl.com/tcujudicial
Wimbledon commentators are practically running in memoriam graphics for Djokovic.
Me, standing at my classroom door, fending off the AI chatbots and cursing their liveried administrative flunkeys.
Here we go… “The tech industry’s campaign to embed artificial intelligence chatbots in classrooms is accelerating. “The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest U.S. teachers’ union, said on Tuesday that it would start an A.I. training hub for educators with $23…