More About Cultural Research: History and Future Directions

Cultural Research, the website, was created as a personal scholarly archive, a building block in the open access movement and a way to make my research and related writing on dance, cultural studies, gender studies and education freely available. Much of that work was created in the late 90's and so the Archive of Research Papers now also represents an earlier phase of my academic activity though I hope to return to related themes in future writing projects.

Since earning my PhD in Cultural Studies in Education (OSU, 2000), my focus has shifted to web publishing, Internet studies and library science. The initial subtitle of this blog, "Disruptive Innovation, Libraries & Education," indicates the range of interests I am attempting to tie together but is clearly a bit too broad for the long term.

Moving forward I intend to develop a special focus on innovation in academic libraries while continuing to point to related areas that indicate future challenges and opportunities. I will also be sharing my experiences in the field, whether as a part-time librarian at Cleveland Library, as a job seeker in search of a position in higher ed or as a web publisher with an entrepreneurial bug.

We'll see how this mix shakes out over the next few weeks and update accordingly!