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Professor Paige West
@PaigeWestNYC
#FirstGen faculty at both a liberal arts college and a research university in NYC, Guggenheim Fellow, she/her. My tweets represent me and not my employer.
May 9, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
On US based academics excited about "getting back to the field" - I miss my family, colleagues, and friends in #PNG so much right now it hurts, because this week is basically when I have left for PNG every year, for the past 20+ years, for the summer months. 1/ I don't think about PNG as "the field" anymore at all. It is where half my heart lives. And not going in 2020 and now not going in 2021 has hollowed out my sense of self and work and life and connection. I miss @JohnAINI2 so much I physically hurt. 2/