Publications
Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined 20th-century America from Alcatraz Island to Guantánamo Bay.
Combining science studies, popular culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, Blood Cultures examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century US cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate encounters.
Cathy Hannabach traces how these gendered, sexualized, and racialized blood practices were violently mobilized in the service of US empire, as well as creatively transformed by feminist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, and queer artists and activists.
Articles
Ideas on Fire’s 2017 Year in Review
2017 was an exciting year at Ideas on Fire. Learn about our 2017 accomplishments, including 4 new team members, 79 articles, 70 client projects, 27 podcast episodes, 23 webinars, and more!
Academic New Year’s Resolutions: Questions for the New Year
Although many people set New Year’s resolutions, spending some time reviewing this year ensures you can set smart ones that reflect your real-life needs and situation.
Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book/Tenure Book
Publishing your first book is both exciting and daunting. Working with the right publisher can make all the difference though.
Finding Non-Academic Mentors Regardless of Your Career Path
Non-academic mentors bring a wealth of career expertise and life advice. Here’s how to build and nurture the relationships that will sustain you in whatever careers you end up pursuing.
Conference Preparation Checklist: Before and After
Checklists you can use to ensure you get the most out of your conference experience.
Teaching with Podcasts: Podcast Assignments, Scholarship, & Pedagogy
Podcasts can help your students engage with course themes in new and more complex ways. Here are some ways you can integrate podcasts into your classroom as both scholarship and production assignments, as well as tips on how to ensure a great learning experience for everyone.
PhD Mentorship and Grad School Coaching Profile: Cathy Hannabach
Dr. Cathy Hannabach reflects on her career journey, her passion for collaboration, and how she helps others figure out what makes them tick.
What to Do with Peer Review Comments: The Details
How to read the sometimes conflicting advice reviewers give on manuscripts and how to decide which reviewer suggestions to follow.
What to Do with Peer Review Comments, Part 1: Big Picture
In this two-part series, we’ll talk you through how to approach revisions on your academic book or journal article (part 1) as well as how to decide which reviewer suggestions to follow (part 2). Think of this first post as the big-picture strategy and the next one as helping you implement that strategy for the specific, detailed feedback you receive from reviewers.
How to Start Academic Writing Groups (and Why You Should)
How do you find support and accountability to help you stick with it and create awesome scholarship? One of the best ways is through writing groups—a small collection of writers who meet regularly, support each other, and get writing done.
PhD Mentorship Series: How To Be a Good Mentee
In Part 3 of Ideas on Fire’s mentorship series, I tackle how to keep your new academic mentorship relationships strong over the long term by being a good mentee.
Building Personal Academic Websites
Your professional website services as a central hub for information about you and your projects. Here are tips on how to build an academic website that showcases your awesome work.
How to Design Accessible Events
Accessibility is a social justice issue, but many academic events still are not accessible to most bodies. Here we offer concrete strategies (for any budget) to design your event for the widest audience possible.
Ideas on Fire’s 2016 Year in Review
2016 has been a whirlwind at Ideas on Fire. Here I offer a brief “year in review” highlighting some of the most exciting things to come out of IoF in the last 12 months.
Book and Dissertation Structure: Creating Your Chapters
You’re sitting on pages and pages of notes, potential outlines, and paragraphs on various topics but have yet to find the big, overarching structure or framework that ties all that stuff together into a cohesive manuscript. Here’s how to create a framework for your book or dissertation.
