21st-century virtues and vices: collecting stories from the field
Read the guest columns by scholars from across the academic spectrum below. About these contributions, click here.
Conspicuous productivity
by Philip Muijtjens, PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Cambridge No-one will disagree that productivity is a high virtue in academia. One outcome of this, however,…
De zonde der onzichtbaarheid
by Dirk van Miert, Associate Professor of Early Modern Cultural History at Utrecht University, specialized in the history of knowledge “Ze mag wel wat zichtbaarder zijn.” Het was een veelgehoord…
Hypercriticism, or the spectre of Momus
by Arnoud Visser, Professor of Textual Culture in the Renaissance in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication of Utrecht University In the history of knowledge the gadfly, at first…
Cool heads and open minds: dealing with the potentially vanilla S-wave superconductor Sr2RuO4
by Remko Fermin, third year PhD candidate at Leiden University working on correlated electron matter with a focus on unconventional superconductivity Last year, Andrew Mackenzie, section director at the Max…
The ‘search’ in ‘research’
by Edurne de Wilde, PhD candidate at Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History I recently came across an intriguing essay by Joost de Vries, titled Echte pretentie (‘True pretension’).[1] De…
Sociability on the spectrum between academic virtue and vice
by Anne Por, PhD candidate at Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History It is widely agreed that it is good to be social. Social people supposedly create a good working…