Formspring.me is a neat little website that does one simple thing: It lets you ask people questions and read their answers. The questions are anonymous — unless you choose to identify yourself — and they stay private until an answer is submitted.

I set up a Formspring.me account a couple of weeks ago, and I’ll be posting the questions and answers here on an occasional basis. If you’ve got something you’d like to ask, go right ahead.

What ignited your interest in engaging students in this particular manner?

I was involved in student activism and student government as an undergrad, and started researching student history because of that. I quickly realized that there were a lot of important stories that hadn’t been told, so I went to grad school to learn how to tell them. Everything else has just flowed from that.