Adam DJ Brett, Ph.D. Decoding religion
I'm honored to be presenting alongside Dean Teresa Smallwood at the Technology, Innovation & Digital Engagement Lab (TIDEL) Symposium in New York City on October 1, 2026 . Here's why this gathering matters to me. Most of us feel it — the sense that technology is moving faster than our ability to think clearly about it. We adopt tools before we've asked what they're for. We watch innovation set the…
Before lacrosse was a varsity sport, before it was an Olympic event, before it was anything you could buy tickets to, it was a gift. The Haudenosaunee call it Deyhontsigwa'ehs — "They Bump Hips" — and they have played it for over a thousand years as the Creator's Game, a medicine game played for healing and thanksgiving. The game is older than the Haudenosaunee Confederacy itself, and the…
There is a very particular kind of joy that comes from solving a web problem whose final answer is smaller than the problem felt. I wanted the American Indian Law Alliance website to live at both aila.ngo and aila.ong . The pairing matters: .ngo is the primary address, while .ong is its parallel form. I did not want the second domain to bounce visitors to the first. If somebody requests /give/ , a…
Writing Support Resources # These resources support the writing process itself: the language you use, the community that holds you accountable, and the institutional tools already available to you at no extra cost. Coaching and community # Eileen Campbell-Reed's Writing Table is a weekly virtual writing session for academic and ministry-related writers, built on Robert Boice's research showing…
Apps and Tools for Research and Writing # These tools cover the three jobs your writing workflow needs done: keeping track of sources, giving you a quiet place to write, and holding your notes and outlines together as your project grows. Reference managers # Zotero is a free, open source reference manager that saves citations directly from your browser, organizes PDFs by project, and formats…
The Kanban Method for Dissertation and Journal Article Writing # Kanban is a visual work-management method that started on Toyota's factory floor in the 1940s, where cards, kanban in Japanese, signaled when a workstation needed more material. Software teams adapted it decades later, and individual writers now borrow the same logic to manage a project too large to hold in their head all at once,…
In Praise of Zotero # Every writer's toolkit has to pick one hill to die on. This is mine: use Zotero. Zotero solves the one problem that quietly derails more dissertations than bad theory ever does, which is losing track of what you read and where you read it. Click the browser extension on a journal article, a library catalog page, or even a well-formed website, and Zotero pulls the full…
Frame Analysis, Critical Theory, and English Language Teaching # By Robert J. Lowe Routledge, 2026 Lowe, Robert J. 2026. Frame Analysis, Critical Theory, and English Language Teaching . Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-54469-4 (hardback), 978-1-032-53280-6 (paperback), 978-1-003-42505-2 (ebook). Robert J. Lowe opens with a confession common to critical scholars but rarely examined this…
Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI # By Yuk Hui Bloomsbury Academic, 2026 (Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series) Hui, Yuk. 2026. Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI . London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3505-6320-9 (hardback), 978-1-3506-0250-2 (paperback), 978-1-3505-6321-6 (ePDF). The book opens with an epigraph from Turing's 1950 paper: "Can a machine be made…
Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice # Edited by Giovanni Schiuma and Daniela Carlucci CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, 2018 (Data Analytics Applications series) Schiuma, Giovanni, and Daniela Carlucci, eds. 2018. Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4987-6585-5. It matters where a book comes from. Big Data in the Arts…