Abby Mullen

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  • Podcasting in Class

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    I asked on Twitter yesterday if those who used podcast creation as part of their classes would share their materials or, even better, their podcasts. I got some pretty cool stuff. So here’s a roundup, possibly incomplete (the threads kind of got away from me a few times). If I’ve missed something you suggested, or…

  • Student Communication: Pedagogy Musing #2

    Student Communication: Pedagogy Musing #2

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    My self-maintained list of failings as a teacher is quite long. But I’d like to think that communicating with students outside of class is not on that list. I do everything in my power to make sure my students have ready access to me at all times. And yet it often feels like I’m not…

  • Preble Hall Podcast: A Bit of Self-Promotion

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    A few weeks ago, I got to be the guest of Claude Berube, director of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, on the new podcast from the museum, Preble Hall. It was really fun to talk First Barbary War with him. Give it a listen if you’re so inclined.

  • Pedagogy Musing #1: Backward Design

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    [Note 1: Today is the 8th anniversary of my mother’s death. I’ve written about her before, but it seems fitting that I should write about her again as I start my promised series of blog posts musing about pedagogy. Note 2: This post is called “Musing” for a reason: it’s really just somewhat random thoughts…

  • Using Tropy for the Classroom

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    It’s no secret that I’m a Tropy enthusiast. I often say that I would use and recommend Tropy even if I weren’t the principal investigator on the project. But this semester my work is divided between Tropy and teaching, on both the undergraduate and graduate level. And it turns out that pairing these things has…

  • In Defense of Finding Things in Archives

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    Over the past several months, and probably before that, several historians have been flayed on social media for making claims like “I found this forgotten thing in the archive,” and stories about their finds criticized for calling their work “discovery.” Scholars have (rightly) called out these stories as erasing the work of the archivists in…

  • East Asian Studies Syllabus

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    Spring 2020 East Asian Studies students, here is a link to your syllabus, with hyperlinks to the PDFs. This is also available at https://abbymullen.org/havens-syllabi/. Syllabus

  • World War II in the Pacific Syllabus

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    Students in Professor Havens’s Spring 2020 World War II class, here’s a link to your syllabus. This syllabus is also available at abbymullen.org/havens-syllabi. Click here.

  • A 21st Century Barbary War

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    When Thomas Jefferson sent a small naval squadron to the Mediterranean in 1801, he intended to intimidate the Barbary regencies into backing down from their claims of tribute in exchange for commercial freedom in the Mediterranean. Negotiations with the Barbary states hadn’t worked over the previous 15 years of American attempts, and the newly built…

  • Wiggly Tales: A Random Tale Generator

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    [This semester I’m taking Humanities Data Analysis with Professor Ben Schmidt. One of our tasks for this week was to build a random-walk generator using 3-grams. Here’s my quick writeup of my generator cross-posted from our course blog.] We’ve been reading a lot of fairy tales around my house recently, so I wanted to see how…