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Thomas A. Carlson

I duly entered my information in my institutional "Experts Directory."

My (American) institution's list of scholarly fields was imported unchanged from one developed for Australia and New Zealand. This led to the (really cool!) option for picking a number of fields (which, regrettably, I do not study), and over half a dozen subfields of "Medical biochemistry" (less regrettably), but no scholarly field name including "Medieval" (nor "Mediaeval") in any discipline...

One could study "Islamic Studies" or "Middle Eastern History" or "Christian Studies"(!), but no Studies, Studies, or .

Yet another reminder that controlled vocabularies are not neutral.

As a curveball I decided that I would include my 2002 discrete mathematics journal article, "The Edge-Isoperimetric Problem for Discrete Tori." I typically do not list that on my CV when applying for history things. That was a long time ago.