Wish+List_pedlt3

Pedro de la Torre III Experiments in Method 2/1/13   ** Wish List Memo **
 * **Short Term** || **During Graduate School** || **Pre-Worm Food** ||
 * * Field-site visit to Hanford, WA and surrounding area, as well as DC (this summer)
 * Develop and implement media outreach and communications plan for the fracking research group
 * Help with the Unlearn event
 * Begin identifying what needs to be done for my portfolio
 * Manage course work, perhaps by making them as relevant to the portfolio, fracking work, and dissertation plans as possible
 * Submit abstract to NSSR conference, and perhaps 4S and AAA
 * Apply for HASS fellowship, as well as outside grants for dissertation
 * Begin outlining a provisional conceptual framework for dissertation and beyond || * Complete dissertation
 * Complete coursework
 * Publish a few articles, at least one or two on my dissertation research, as well as a few non-academic articles
 * Present at several conferences, at least a few times on my dissertation topic
 * Build expertise on:
 * o Nuclear issues
 * o Fracking
 * o STS
 * o Ethnography, including collaborative ethnography
 * o Anthropological/Social/STS theory
 * o Environmental justice
 * o Public / Activist / Engaged Anthropology & STS
 * o Disaster studies
 * o Critical geography
 * o Economic Anthropology (and related fields)
 * o Temporality


 * Learning how to teach, and, more broadly, communicate about the areas of expertise outlined above to various audiences
 * Learn how to manage time, stick to schedule
 * Contribute to the fracking debate & participate in anti-fracking movement || * Faculty position in STS, anthropology, or related department
 * Turn dissertation into a book and/or several articles
 * Foster collaborative projects connecting students, community/activist groups, and others
 * Work on the connection between investigative journalism and social/ethnographic scholarship
 * Experiment with alternative pedagogy
 * Be a voice within higher education for increasing access and more democratic decision making
 * Support open access journals, open source textbooks, and similar efforts
 * Help foster/support both student activism and budding scholars ||