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The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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26.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 110 🔁 47 💬 6 📌 2

SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).

jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

03.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

also I collected Mira Nair’s papers, including her handwritten notebooks for all films, at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, FREE and open to the public. Much good work to be done. Finding aid here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories...

26.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 99 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 1

also, in addition, because she is a badass, I collected the personal papers of Madhur Jaffrey, actor, celebrity chef, and renowned Nani in Mr Cardamom Zohran Mamdani’s rendering:

youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

26.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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07.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 41 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 3

About First published in January 1886, The English Historical Review (EHR) is the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. It publishes

EHR is not a journal of British history! We welcome submissions on all topics, periods, geographies and methodologies. We are keen to encourage submissions from historians from less represented groups who might not have considered us in the past.

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23.05.2025 16:29 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Book cover of 'Hum Bharat ke Log'

We have cover!
@surbhikarwa.bsky.social
With Vani Prakashan

29.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme was established by the University of Melbourne to attract outstanding recent doctoral graduates to the University in areas of research priority, and in part...

Great 3 year postdoc opportunity at Melbourne Law School closing very soon. Applicants must contact a member of the faculty to endorse their draft application law.unimelb.edu.au/research/for...

17.04.2025 23:33 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Job opportunity in European history in the Department of History at one of Europe's most wonderful universities.

14.04.2025 13:21 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth centu...

In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present.

Read it here 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

08.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Assistant Professor in American and/or World History | The American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt, Job Description The Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites applications from historians of the modern world specializing in American and/or World History whose thematic subfields enable them to teach the role of the US in our increasingly interconnected and globalized world. The position is an open-rank appointment that will begin in Fall 2025. It is a fixed-term position for four years, renewable upon positive review of teaching, research, and service. The successful candidate will teach in English three undergraduate courses each semester such as historiographical, methodological, and survey courses as well as upper-level special topic seminars. Requirements PhD by September 1, 2025 , is required with evidence of teaching experience. Priority will be given to applications received by November 1, 2024 . Application Instructions: Applicants must submit the following documents via the online system : an updated CV a letter of interest addressing the required qualifications a completed AUC Personnel Information Form (PIF) a statement of teaching philosophy copies of recent student evaluations an example of a recent publication relevant to the position letters of reference from at least three referees familiar with the applicant's professional background directly e-mailed to hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted before November 1, 2024 . Applications will be accepted until a qualified applicant pool has been achieved or until the position is filled. Questions may be directed to the Chair of the History Department, Dr. Hanan Kholoussy, at hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu . Company Description Founded in 1919, AUC moved to a new 260-acre state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo in 2008. The university also operates in its historic downtown facilities, offering cultural events, graduate classes, and continuing education. Student housing is available in New Cairo. Among the premier universities in the region, AUC is Middle States accredited; its engineering programs are accredited by ABET, its chemistry program is accredited by the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the School of Business is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, and the Master of Public Administration and the Master of Public Policy programs of GAPP are accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and administration (NASPAA). The AUC libraries contain the largest English-language research collection in the region and are an active and integral part of the university's pursuit of excellence in all academic and scholarly programs. AUC is an English-medium institution; eighty-five percent of the students are Egyptian and the rest include students from nearly ninety countries, principally from the Middle East, Africa and North America. Faculty salary and rank are based on qualifications and professional experience. According to AUC policies and procedures, all faculty are entitled to generous benefits. Apply Here PI267277042

New History Job Posted Today: Assistant Professor in American and/or World History | The American University in Cairo

07.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

2025 Toynbee Prize Announcement | Toynbee Prize Foundation

Congratulations to AHA member Sunil Amrith, who was awarded the 2025 Toynbee Prize “for his exceptional work on the movement of peoples as shaped by environmental forces, work that has brought the regions of South/Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to the center of global historical scholarship.”

07.04.2025 20:32 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Speaker Series: Taisu Zhang - ABF This article argues that legal professions, regardless of socioeconomic, political, cultural, or ideological context, naturally drift towards jurisprudential internalism. Zhang defines “legal…

Why do legal professionals around the world drift towards jurisprudential internalism? On Wed., 4/9, our ABF Speaker Series is led by Yale Law Prof. @zhangtaisu.bsky.social, who presents a behavioral and comparative argument: internalism aligns with incentives across six major legal systems.

07.04.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History We are looking for a historian holding a doctoral degree and specialising in Middle Eastern history who is at the beginning of their career. Workplace and subject The successful candidate will divide

Job opportunity: Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. "We are looking for a historian holding a doctoral degree and specialising in Middle Eastern history who is at the beginning of their career."

01.04.2025 12:44 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (107930-0325) - University of Warwick Title: Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (107930-0325). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

Jobs at Warwick Law! Come and work with us. (specific needs in tort and global health law, but application from all fields of law within the school’s expertise will be considered)

31.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 17 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

H-Net Job Guide

Postdoc Opportunity!

The Tulane Global Humanities Center, Postdoctoral Fellows

Recent PhDs who explore: port cities, global flows, blue humanities, critical ocean studies, logistics, and/or transnational environmental humanities.
Region and historical period open.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

30.03.2025 05:09 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

28.03.2025 06:36 — 👍 1371 🔁 288 💬 21 📌 23

I wrote about Gumnaam, which isn’t my favorite Indian adaptation of Christie but is, IMO, a very pleasing mystery. Plus: MAX USE OF HELEN!!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 #desiwatch

20.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Details - Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

Just boosting that we’re searching for an associate professor of the history of slavery in the northern US / Canada - applications will still be considered 🗃️https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/526190/associate-professor-tenured-public-historyassociate-director-of-slavery-north-initiative

12.03.2025 23:02 — 👍 402 🔁 190 💬 13 📌 1

Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes

12.03.2025 07:29 — 👍 127 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 2

So You Want to Teach Some Indian Philosophy? In a previous post Peter Adamson predicted that non-European philosophies are destined to enter the mainstream of the philosophical profession. He highlighted three avenues of progress. One is that de...

3) Some useful resources have been listed by Jonardon Ganeri here:
blog.apaonline.org/2018/10/08/s...
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09.03.2025 23:49 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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Map showing density of downloads of open access text The East India Company at home, showing India and Britain as sites of highest downloading and US as heavily represented.

Finally topped 150,000 downloads from open access East India Company at Home volume, 7 years after publication. Esp. pleased to see Indian downloads at the top of the table. A collaborative co-edited, co-produced book: a dialogue of academic & non-academic researchers. 1/2@uclpress.bsky.social

04.03.2025 08:47 — 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Manan Ahmed Asif on Lahore as a city exiled from its pasts: Southasia Review of Books podcast #18 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia.

Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to the historian Manan Ahmed Asif about his new book *Disrupted City*

24.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01) at Durham University An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)- Durham University #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW082/a...

18.02.2025 07:55 — 👍 41 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 1

Father Brown is one of my favorites.
I read Chesterton's stories when I was very young and impressionable, and the recent series presents a genuinely kind and good person.

18.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Painting of Kangchenjunga, snow mountains in the distance, lush greenery in the foreground, by Edward Lear, 1812–1888, Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling, 1879, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, B1997.7.3.

Sometimes you just need a nice view of Kangchenjunga.

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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling, 1879, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, B1997.7.3.

#Himalaya #HimalayanStudies

13.02.2025 19:51 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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