Work This Week

Working this week has been admittedly rather challenging. This week was Holy Week/Easter which means a lot of church-going, a lot of preparation to go home, a lot of preparation once you get home (the Easter Bunny requires a lot of help–the dude is stretched thin). Despite the craziness, I managed to fit in a […]

Who Cares?

Design has been one of the most interesting parts of this project. How do you take information and present it in an effective way? Right now, I’m quite dissatisfied with our current presentation. I don’t like it. I’m glad with the theme we chose but I don’t feel like we’re using it the most effective […]

Reading Reflection–Kolossov

This piece is a nice compliment to Anderson’s “Imagined Communities.” Kolossov also identified national (or political) identification as ultimately being an arbitrary social construct. Kolossov’s primary focus is on the ethnic identities of former members of the Soviet Union and how their perception of ethnicity and its significance in their life has changed. Ethnic identification […]