JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
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JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
apply.workable.com/middleburyco...
Delighted to have an article on Maritime Marronage in the Grenadines published in this special issue of The Journal of Caribbean History. Special thanks to Kathleen Monteith & the special issue editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, @feliciafricke.bsky.social, Joy Lewis & Rasmus Christensen.
28.02.2026 03:05 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Co-editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, Joy Lewis, Rasmus Christensen, and I have recently published a special issue of the Journal of #Caribbean #History! 🎉 Article topics include migration, trade networks, commons, marronnage, slavery law, and indentureship: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...
27.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇
We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate.
www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...
Just saw this - I don’t think I have seen anything about US investment for those years - almost everything I have read is on British company/family dominance through to the 1890s - Brereton (A History) is my source - pp 84-86.
27.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One more try here - does anyone know if USD was circulating widely in the Caribbean in the 1870s? Dominica had only irregular steamship commerce (mostly resale from Barbados and Martinique). But maybe it was a dominant currency, as most imported food was of US origin? Guesses welcome! 🗃️ #skystorians
21.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1Having got to a place where there are few to no career-length jobs in the humanities, in a society where much of the work itself — particularly on “divisive” subjects — is reviled in media and attacked by politicians, we have created conditions that select for wealthy folk, cliff divers and saints
20.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 142 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
Jonathan Gienapp joins the Omohundro Institute for a public lecture on constitutional originalism & the authority of history.
📅 Mar 18, 2026, 4–5:30 PM EDT
📍 Hennage Auditorium
Register: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overview/events/vast-early-america-lecture-with-jonathan-gienapp
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
14.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 13963 🔁 3730 💬 232 📌 133New at the Iberian Colonial Repository: Catalogue of the microfilms from the Archivo General de Indias held at The Historic New Orleans Collection, from subsections Papeles de Cuba and Santo Domingo. If interested in Spanish sources about Louisiana, this will interest you.
13.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Did you know that H-Net Reviews has published more than 51,000 reviews since 1993? That’s all thanks to our volunteer review editors who commission dozens of reviews from fellow scholars, who review these works as service for the scholarly community. Browse and search our entire archive!
13.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Calling Historians of Latin America, the Caribbean, Atlantic World, and Borderlands- Deadline Extended to 27th Feb!
13.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
10.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 245 🔁 270 💬 3 📌 4
@dlocaribbean has a great series of events coming up!
09.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
FEATURED JOB: 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - Connecticut
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69786/g...
#fellowships #edusky #academicsky #highered #history
We've extended the deadline for the 2026-2027 Goizueta Graduate Fellowships @umchc.bsky.social to Feb 20.
If you're a grad student in the US working on Cuba-focused or Cuba-adjacent topics, apply!
mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
🚨CFP 2026 🚨: LACS–SHA invites individual paper and panel proposals for the SHA’s 92nd Annual Meeting, held November 5–8, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Panels and papers welcome on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including borderlands and the Atlantic World. Deadline: 30th Jan. '26.
12.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The Call for Papers for the 2026 SHA meeting in Atlanta is now open. We encourage scholars at all career stages to build on these conversations and submit proposals for panels, roundtables, or individual papers. Find out more at shorturl.at/4hLTg
06.01.2026 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Reflecting back on 2025, we’d like to thank everyone who helped make the LACS–SHA events at the SHA Annual Conference in St. Pete such a success.
06.01.2026 23:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/...
Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
10.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 597 🔁 288 💬 6 📌 21
LLMs can only understand the first line.
Humans can understand the infinite context below.
If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
09.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 46 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 0
Join us on a day full of new data of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database, presentations from researchers that are related to ESTA or the field of Indian Ocean slavery, and the introduction of TIDES.
iisg.amsterdam/en/events/la...
The Oct. issue of The William and Mary Quarterly is out now! It follows Dutch-trained soldiers to Jamestown, uncovers enslaved resistance in the Caribbean, revisits abolition-era debates through new eyes, and shows how Equiano’s reach went farther than previously known. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55884
07.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our final CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the year “Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean” takes place on 9 Dec w/ Dr Catie Peters @oieahc.bsky.social
@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social / @deannalyncook.bsky.social / @ilcs.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The @upmississippi.bsky.social flash sale is extended one more day. 50% off all books including, SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN for only $15! 🗃️🇭🇹
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025:
25 Nov Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao
9 Dec Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean
shorturl.at/BnOkd
@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social