Noe Montez

We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Here's a cool opportunity for an "early career" actor. Emory will pay you $42k w health, benefits, and $10k in research funds. You teach one course per term & serve as an acting coach/ actor (with more $$) for a dept. production.

Application Deadline: March 2, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/179709

If you think ICE is only in Minneapolis or you already know it’s everywhere but you need specifics, I recommend this map created by students at Rice University.

I'm the selection committee chair for the ATDS Contingent Faculty Research/Travel Award.

Please consider applying for the award by May 1.

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WSJ article: Pamela Whitten Is Indiana University's MVP She jumped in and played the new college-football game better than anyone else. By Jonathan Shapiro

Of course, there's no mention of the 200+ degree programs she cut or consolidated to help pay for this historic football win (by tripling the football budget).

Poster: One Year of Trump 2.0 -- Emory Walkout -- Stop ICE Terror -- Join the Nationwide Shutdown. January 20, 12 PM, Asbury Circle. Red background with images of ICE violence.

Emory Walkout Jan 20 12 PM Asbury Circle

Wild that Indiana is going to finally win a national football championship in the year that IU’s leaders & the state’s government decided it was no longer a serious research university.

Scenic Carpenters!

A job in Technical Theater that's basically 9-5 that also gives AFFORDABLE health care, a matched retirement plan, PTO, and more! Apply at Theater Emory to be our next Asst. Technical Director! Salary determined by Emory , but guess it would be high $40s-low $50s to start.

Critical University Studies and Performance – Vanderbilt University Press Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they r...

Critical University Studies and Performance is up on the Vanderbilt UP site! Check out the cover and slate of contributors (including Marisa Williamson, whose performance is featured on the cover). Use HOLIDAY50 to get 50% off your preorder.

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This is great, and very timely for an archives project that I am working on. Thanks!

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

As someone who has had multiple flights cancelled and/or delayed this weekend…

Thank you ASTR 2025.

Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship.

You keep me inspired.

TODAY is the last day to vote: If you live in the city of Atlanta and don't know who to vote for, go on over to the @atlpresscollective.com for candidate questionnaires.

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

It's become a study of US sports' engagement with American politics from Trayvon Martin's murder to the 2nd Trump inauguration. How can we read shifts in the US political landscape through a performative analysis of sports and its media coverage?

Thanks for reminding me of that article. I will be citing it in my monograph draft.

I’m very pleased to be named as the next series editor for the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. I’ll be working with Heather Nathans though Jan 1, 2027 and will move fully into the role on that date.

Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I worked with Danielle Fenton-Rosvally, Julia Fawcett, & Amy Cook to create a document with best practices for search committees conducting an academic job search in TDPS.

I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart.

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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
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It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

So much disappointment

We are all beholden to the cowardice of university general counsels, as well as the trustees and administrators who enable them

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...