Fighting for the Middle
Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6225871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh (0000-0002-0199-5295, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 123-144 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-10472373 |
| OpenAlex | W4386102943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay explores the politics of disciplinarity in medieval studies by revisiting the author's own graduate medieval studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with another graduate student, the author advocated for a more flexible and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the author theorizes through Sara Ahmed's critical frameworks, in order to share the greatest lesson they learned: aside from the established governing body of the degree program, the fiercest defenders of a conventional, Eurocentric conception of medieval studies were those newest to the discipline—the graduate students
Art · Aside · Conceptualization · Diversity (politics · Graduate education · Graduate students · Linguistics · Literature · Medieval studies · Order (exchange · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Engineering · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |