At the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago yesterday, I took part in a roundtable on academic blogs with Tom Schaller, Phil Klinkner, and Dante Scala. A big issue we talked about is whether blogging hurts your prospects for tenure by making people think that you're not a serious scholar. Unfortunately, they all have tenure, so it looks like I'm the guinea pig right now in the discipline. For more on this issue, see Daniel Drezner's excellent post on the subject from before he got denied tenure...
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April 23, 2006
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in 2009 and served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan from 2009-2011. I also tweet at @BrendanNyhan and serve as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, I co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin, and co-authored All the President's Spin. For more, see my bio or academic website.
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