Last updated April 2019
I edit broadly on topics in the arts, humanities, and education, some topics by interest and others by circumstance. What follows is a general, brief introduction to my work, for those curious.
I have contributed over 1100 to Wikipedia and the public domain since 2013.
My current projects include:
Editions of the Venice Biennale
Biographies of contemporary women artists from Africa
History and historiography of anarchism
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art collaboration since 2016
1:54 , contemporary African art fair held annually in London and New York
Angolan pavilion , national pavilion at the Venice Biennale Angola
Dak'Art , contemporary art biennial held in Dakar, known for pan-Africanism Senegal
Edson Chagas , photographer based in Luanda Angola
Egyptian pavilion , national pavilion at the Venice Biennale Egypt
Emeka Ogboh , sound artist based in Lagos Nigeria
Hamidou Maiga , Malian studio photographer among the region's pioneers in the craft during the postcolonial period Mali
Idia masks , ivory, ritual masks, the most famous masterpieces from the Benin Empire, iconic of the looting of Benin and the campaign for restitution Benin
Judith Kanakuze , Rwandan politician and women's rights activist Rwanda
Nadia Kaabi-Linke , conceptual artist based in Berlin Tunisia
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi , art historian and curator at Dartmouth Nigeria
books on education : history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology
Compulsory Miseducation (1964), critique of American public schools by Paul Goodman
The Demands of Liberal Education (1999), Meira Levinson 's liberal political theory of children's education to fit the mutual needs of the state and its diverse citizenry
Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn (2001), first full biography of philosopher, university admin, and free speech advocate Alexander Meiklejohn
Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited (1999), biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his associated normal school for freedmen , the Hampton Institute
Fifty Years of Freedom (1972), intellectual biography of the British pedagogue A. S. Neill , traces how Homer Lane , Wilhelm Reich , Sigmund Freud and others influenced Neill as he developed the "Summerhill idea" behind his Summerhill School
God's Choice (1986), a late 1970s, 18-month ethnographic study of a Baptist fundamentalist day school in Illinois that teaches God's will as singular truth and subordination before God
Stolen Childhood (1995), history of nineteenth century slave children in America, it began the scholarship of slave childhood as the first book on the subject
Summerhill (book) (1960), Summerhill School headmaster A. S. Neill explains his English boarding school, known for introducing his ideas to the American public
books on anarchism
Bibliographies for some 40-odd books on and related to contemporary anarchism (Paul Avrich, David Graeber, Paul Goodman, etc.)
free school movement
Rare Replay , 32-article collaboration on the 2015 compilation of Rare and Ultimate releases
Sabreman series: Sabre Wulf , Underwurlde , and Knight Lore (all 1984)
And others: Blast Corps (1997), Killer Instinct Gold (1996), Battletoads Arcade (1994), Kameo (2005), Slalom (1986), Cobra Triangle (1989), R.C. Pro-Am II (1992), the slogs Viva Piñata (2006) + Trouble in Paradise (2008) ( series ), and the cherry on top, Rare Replay (2015). Also see Stamper brothers , the founders.
indie game media : over 1,500 files released by request under free use license, including:
Fez (2012), a platformer in which the player rotates between the four 2D sides of a 3D cube, known as an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" for its protracted development and outspoken creator, Phil Fish (also influenced Monument Valley and Secrets of Rætikon )
works by game artist and designer Greg Wohlwend , best known for Threes (2014), Ridiculous Fishing (2013), and TumbleSeed (2017), but also Puzzlejuice (2012, with Asher Vollmer ), Solipskier (2010), Gasketball (2012), and TouchTone (2015) as Mikengreg , and Hundreds (video game) (2013)
Videoball (2016), Tim Rogers 's "one-button StarCraft " eSport of basic geometry and bright colors. See also Action Button Entertainment and Ziggurat (2012).
addt'l expansions by topic
Leonard's Bakery , Honolulu bakery, popularized the malasada
Libor Michálek (b. 1968), Czech economist and whistleblower, the first Pirate Party candidate elected to national office, my first reviewed article
Patio 29 , a potter's field burial ground within Chile's capital General Cemetery, used for burying victims of Pinochet's 1973 military coup, my second reviewed article
Jura Federation , the anarchist, Bakuninist faction of the First International during the anti-statist split from the organization
Salvador Puig Antich , a Catalan revolutionary, militant anarchist whose unpopular execution under Spain's Franco regime made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists and anarchists
Paul Avrich , historian of anarchism
Lillian Harman (1869–1929), American sex radical feminist
Autonomous social center , community centers in which non-authoritarians enact principles of mutual aid
Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography , a book-length biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the author's magnum opus
education
Every Student Succeeds Act , American national public education policy since 2015 •
National Council on Teacher Quality , a D.C. think tank that lambasted American teacher prep programs in a 2013 report •
Progressive Education Association , group dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools (1919–1955) •
Henry Caldwell Cook , British educator whose 1917 magnum opus The Play Way contended that youth study through play •
Alice Davis Menken , known for work with female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquency •
Algo Henderson , president of Antioch College credited with their model of shared governance •
History of Education Society , professional organization for American historians of education, founded in 1960 •
Carl Kaestle , historian of education, author of Pillars of the Republic , the standard-bearer history of America's common schools •
Herbartianism , educational movement based on German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart 's philosophy, influential on American school pedagogy in the late 1800s •
Lorenzo Luzuriaga , brought John Dewey to Argentina •
John Davis Pierce , America's first state (Michigan's) superintendent of public schools •
Arnold Ross , mathematician who founded a noted number theory summer program for talented high school students, one of my first subjects •
Indian school chain Shemrock and Shemford •
University of Wisconsin Experimental College , Meiklejohn's great books program in the late 1920s • its critic, administrator George Sellery • its supporter, Wisconsin president (1925–1937) Glenn Frank • John Hanson Twombly , Wisconsin president (1871–1874) and co-ed advocate • Teaching Assistants Association , Wisconsin's graduate student labor union, nation's first • Helen C. White , Wisconsin English prof and first woman to lead the AAUP • Sifting and winnowing , metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth at Wisconsin • Sara Goldrick-Rab , sociologist of education • new Yale residential colleges, Franklin and Murray
internet
Kickstarter headquarters
Blob emoji
services Apple Music , Apple Pay , Geofeedia , Google Inbox , Google Photos , iTunes Radio , Polymail ,
execs Bozoma Saint John , Terry Myerson
Vox Media properties Polygon , Recode , The Verge , Vox
18F , digital services for the U.S. federal government
Microsoft and open source
politics & society
Jewish anarchists Marie Goldsmith , Abba Gordin (but not his father, the rebbe )
The leak-related Panama Papers and Sarah Harrison (journalist)
Hillary Victory Fund , joint fundraising committee for the 2016 Hillary campaign
Kim dynasty (North Korea) , the three-generation lineage of North Korean leaders
Narin Afrin , Kurdish leader in the 2014–2015 Kobanî siege
Tampon tax , when feminine hygiene products used to absorb menstrual flow are not tax exempt alongside similar medical and sexual health products
Weinstein effect , late 2017 global wave of sexual misconduct allegations following the Weinstein case
Susan Fowler , software engineer whose bellwether story changed how Silicon Valley treats sexual harassment
Diamond Tooth Lil , early 20th c. American cultural icon of wealth and libertine burlesque, ✝ Allen3
Another Day in the Death of America (2016) •
Between the World and Me (2015) •
Bro (subculture) •
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) •
The Mind at Work (2004) •
You Could Look It Up (2016) •
Distinction