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New eyes
Posted on March 9, 2025 1 Comment
March 9, 2025 When the wheels touched down in Baton Rouge on the evening of February 22nd, it marked my return from my second trip to DC in 2025. I had also been to Southeast Asia twice since the year began. While travel can bequeath “new eyes,” as Marcel Proust famously wrote, it can also […]
Getting the Word Passed to Me
Posted on February 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
20 February 2022 I’m nearing the end of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Dr. Clint Smith. I heard of this book because the author was featured on the cover of the Harvard Graduate School of Education magazine this month. The book is narrative non-fiction and […]
The Importance of Early Experiences in Scholarship
Posted on February 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
6 February 2022 Out for a run in my Baton Rouge neighborhood, I listen to a podcast by author and journalist Sebastian Strangio about his updated book on Hun Sen and Cambodia published by Yale University Press. I don’t typically listen to podcasts while running, but the lack of trails within running distance from my […]
Holiday Update
Posted on December 26, 2015 2 Comments
What a busy fall… Unfortunately, it’s become normal and perhaps even desirable to be busy in today’s world. Still, I resist. I relish free mornings and nothing to do on Friday nights. That being said, it’s hard to think of a better adjective than busy to describe my fall. Here are a few scattered updates: I finally […]
Oliver S. Crocco 