Adam Plaiss

Telling A History of All of Us

What I Learned By Teaching

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Adam Plaiss
May 05, 2025
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I haven’t always been “Dr. Dad.” For a brief time—the school year of 2015-2016–I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. (For those who don’t speak academia, the vernacular translation of “visiting assistant professor” is “this person only has this job for one year.”) While I was a VAP, I taught a lecture course I designed myself …

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