Christofer Rodelo

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The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit.

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Hey fellow terminated #NEH fellows @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info Sharing my #NEH Appeal of Termination, which I uploaded into the eGMS system. Mine is for an individual fellowship. Another example below. It is recommended that if you were terminated you get an appeal in today.

No advice but lots of love and excitement for your book to be out in the world 🫶🏻

It's been a week since #NEH staff arrived at our jobs as public servants and discovered DOGE circumvented our databases and terminated our #humanities grants.

Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.

On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.

Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Ep. 079 is here, recorded live at the Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton! We hear from Brian and Anne García-Romero about their new book, Fornés in Context, Jacqueline Flores about the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Gwendolyn Alker about Fornés's biography.

www.ontappod.com/home/2025/3/...

Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.

Many in higher education worry that President Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities leaders are not finding many vocal allies to defend them.

I hear DOGE has come to NEH. NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (of the Navajo Nation) is out, and acting chair is Michael McDonald, best known for his legal career fighting affirmative action.

Applications are now open for our sixth Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship for post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances Afro-Latinx Studies.
Apply by April 30th!
See 🔗 in bio for details

Latinx University Studies CFP Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University Proposed special issue American Studies with guest editors Ben Chappell, University of Kansas and Jennifer R. Nájera, University of California, Riverside O...

Call for abstracts--Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University. I'm co-editing a special issue of American Studies on the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies. We'll be reviewing abstracts beginning April 15th!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box

DEI initiatives are still legal.

Universities need to stand their ground.

A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

NEH Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Link here www.neh.gov/executive-or...

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

J Butler “Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now. This does not, in my view, entail a negation of this world, but only a critical interrogation of the limits of the imaginable in light of radical democratic claims.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

A dog in a tie happily typing on a laptop while intense military combat takes place behind them.

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

I’d like to be added too, thank you.

There Is No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote” Colonialism and racism fueled the invention of “Latino” as a category and continue to distort U.S. politics today.

My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...

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