{"id":7176,"date":"2015-05-08T04:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2015-05-07T14:42:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:42:05","slug":"we-might-as-well-wear-lineages-on-our-chests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7176","title":{"rendered":"We Might as well Wear Lineages on our Chests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic bloggers Megan Kate Nelson<\/a> and Elizabeth Covart<\/a> are re-thinking the way that we wear badges at conventions\u2014and other forms of labeling. What might work better than NAME and INSTITUTION (or for the non-affiliated, CITY)?<\/p>\n

In Nelson’s post<\/a>, I like “Academic lineage, a la Game of Thrones<\/em>. Everyone always asks anyway (which I find bizarre when you\u2019re 15 years out of graduate school), so you might as well cop to it.”<\/p>\n

It’s true, at the American Academy of Religion, House McCutcheon<\/a> sneers at the remnants of House Eliade<\/a>. We might as well be open about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic bloggers Megan Kate Nelson and Elizabeth Covart are re-thinking the way that we wear badges at conventions\u2014and other forms of labeling. What might work better than NAME and INSTITUTION (or for the non-affiliated, CITY)? In Nelson’s post, I like “Academic lineage, a la Game of Thrones. Everyone always asks anyway (which I find bizarre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1RK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7025,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7025","url_meta":{"origin":7176,"position":0},"title":"The Scholar’s Mistress","author":"Chas S. 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