@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Children at the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 18 January, 1950, by L Bartholomew. Image uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranqui...
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Glad it's not just me 😂
Happy "new Ryan Wilkins" day for those who celebrate 🥳
The book is finally finished. It comes out 25th April 2026. It’s about historians’ “personal experiences”, how these might relate (critically and analytically) to their histories.
It is called _The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes_
I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social
Atina Grossmann speaking @ UNSW on 16 March www.events.unsw.edu.au/event/new-ap...
Nice
Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.
My worry as a historian is not "AI will replace me" but "AI could eventually make it impossible to replace me"...
Who will be the first academic to list this on their vita under impact?
My article with @booklearning.bsky.social on the demographics of membership applications for the National Front of Australia has been included in this new virtual special issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History on race, rhetoric and rights.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Fascism via excel spreadsheet also wtf is Garden of American Heroes
youtu.be/VATymXTpT1s?...
Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
They couldn't even read the abstracts themselves?!!
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Ah, the days when marital status was included on one's cv.
I hope that was a research masters young man!!
Today I learned that one could be become a Professor of Anthropology at USyd in the 1980s without a PhD. Indeed, with a Hons (2:1) and a Masters - from Cambridge tho lol
Rushing to the archives. Left my laptop in the hotel room.
Knowledge vs self-actualisation is also a clue. "Identity politics". Would AI think to ask *new* questions of material?
No, some of his other posts ..
Knowledge is key here though, right? What is it? This guy seems like a right-wing anti-humanities type
Really? I still take notes old school from hundreds of physical files. How would it know what to look for? I don't even know 😂
Yes spines might be ok
You must resist 😄
Im only still in academia because I moved my husband and three kids to regional Qld. Away from family, friends, schools ..
A 12yo who will end up at the Hague
