PinnedHollis RobbinsThe Emperor’s New Clothes and Workplace HarassmentWhat does a transparent organization look like? Is transparency an ideal for hierarchical systems of power? What incentives — for men…Nov 30, 20172Nov 30, 20172
Hollis RobbinsDancing with Chains[The fantaBlog of LA Review of Books, BLARB, is no longer archived at LARB so I am republishing essays here. This essay is from 04.03.18]Oct 27Oct 27
Hollis RobbinsWhat is Academic Integrity in the Sharing Economy?[First published in the now defunct FluxMagazine in September 2019]Dec 4, 2022Dec 4, 2022
Hollis RobbinsOctober 21, 2017So last night, nearly 35 years after the fact, I finally told my mother what happened when I was a senior in college. She said, on cue…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Hollis RobbinsHome College, or, Why Not Hire a Personal Quarantine Professor?Shelter in place with yourstudents.Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Hollis RobbinsSonnets and Agonizing SeedsSeed metaphors appear in three sonnets by African American poets during the two decades of literary optimism of the 1920s and 1930s often…Jan 12, 2020Jan 12, 2020
Hollis RobbinsRandom musings on Morton Horwitz in an era of land acknowledgements, slavery reparations, and…Every time I pick up The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (Harvard UP, 1977) I find myself wishing Horwitz had begun with Paul’s…Jun 30, 2019Jun 30, 2019