Audrey Watters

If rereading and reposting these old essays is painful, it's not in the way one might expect. I really don't regret stepping away from academia. I'm not particularly sad that my dissertation is unfinished. What is painful instead, especially as I revisit my political scholarship, is the "where are we...

November 30 marked the ten year anniversary of the WTO Protests in Seattle. Like many events I look back on from my past, I have this weird dual sensation of "Wow, has it only been ten years?" and "Wow, that seems like a lifetime ago." I presented the paper "'Whose...

I had to stop at the bank on the way to work this morning. I needed cash for my morning coffee and for my after-work drinks. I was running late -- I had an 8:30 conference call I had to make -- but I took the time at the cash...

I grew up in Casper, Wyoming, a place that, as one might expect from the hometown of Dick Cheney, wasn't exactly a site of peace and solace. Legend has it that the Native Americans opted not to settle the area as the winds there cause madness -- ok, my friends...

I remember -- years ago -- a student telling me "You should totally have a LiveJournal," and when I did start blogging -- wow, I guess it's been five years now -- that was the site I initially chose. Since then, I've blogged via Blogger, Typepad, and Wordpress -- sometimes...