History
- “Race” Relations: Montagu, Dobzhansky, Coon, and the Divergence of Race Concepts (2009) is an article on the anthropologists Ashley Montagu and Carleton Coon and the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky. Covering the period from the 1940s to 1963, it focuses on the conceptualizations of human race each espoused, and on the development of their relationships as they put their science to political use.
- George Frederick Wright and the Evolving Harmony of Science and Revelation (2009) is a study of an American theologian-geologist who lived from 1838 to 1921, focusing on his shifting ideas about the relationship between Christianity and Darwinism.
- Educational Choice “on the Side of the Child”: Liberalism and Libertarian Education (2006) is an essay on A.S. Neill and John Holt, leaders of the free school and unschooling movements respectively. I examine the relationships between their libertarian left politics and educational theories, as well as the place of their ideas in contemporary school choice debates.
Social Media
- Wikipedia for Educators (2008) is an overview of Wikipedia and some of the pedagogical issues it raises.
- Activist Cleveland (2008) is an online directory of activist, progressive, and cooperative groups and projects in Northeast Ohio.
- Social Network Sites and the High Fidelity Model of Identity (2008) is a short essay on the form and function of the Facebook profile.
- PracticeTracker (2007) is an online music education tool that allows students to describe their practice sessions in a journal, receive feedback from their teachers, and set and monitor goals for themselves.
- Everything2, while not my creation, is an online writing community in which I’ve participated since 2002. It is the home for most of my writing.
- The Everything2 Facebook application (2007) links Facebook profiles to the content of Everything2.
- The May 9th Email Archive (2003) is an annotated collection of emails between those trapped in Case Western Reserve University’s Peter B. Lewis Building during a shooting.