Aug 23, 2023·edited Aug 23, 2023Liked by Paul Musgrave
Does you advice on pronouns change at all for students departing (or doubling up) academia with U.S.-centric practitioner-oriented organizations? In my think tank capacity we do sometimes work with and even take sponsorship from foreign governments (in my case exclusively treaty allies). That said, it's fairly typical to be explicitly playing on team United States whether or not the U.S. government is the sponsor at the time.
I tend to think of that as the nature of the institution, but curious if you'd push back on a student making such an assumption if they were asking you about something they were writing on an internship or the like.
[Off the top of my head, I'd normally avoid pronouns in the context you describe, but it still struck me as an interesting potential point of divergence.]
Does you advice on pronouns change at all for students departing (or doubling up) academia with U.S.-centric practitioner-oriented organizations? In my think tank capacity we do sometimes work with and even take sponsorship from foreign governments (in my case exclusively treaty allies). That said, it's fairly typical to be explicitly playing on team United States whether or not the U.S. government is the sponsor at the time.
I tend to think of that as the nature of the institution, but curious if you'd push back on a student making such an assumption if they were asking you about something they were writing on an internship or the like.
[Off the top of my head, I'd normally avoid pronouns in the context you describe, but it still struck me as an interesting potential point of divergence.]