Melissa N. Morris

Some history profs in our wizard (graduation) robes.

Stepping out in the most expensive outfits we own! Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

The tallest building in the entire state is an 11-story dorm.

I haven't seen either of them, so for all I know it's 0.

Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities - The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT - Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown ...

Today and tomorrow at the Clark Library (UCLA):

American Council of Learned Societies Awards 62 ACLS Fellowships ACLS Fellowships award $3.5 million to scholars in recognition of excellence in humanities and social sciences research

We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq

Fellowship Opportunity!

SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply.

shear.org/about-us/she...

If you're in NYC on Friday, April 5th, check out this fantastic program at Columbia, Early Modern Women on the Move with leading lights of the field including Merry Wiesner-Hanks, @martinevanelk.bsky.social, and @ninalamal.bsky.social. (and it's free): www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode...

They're always hiring, too! 🥲

A note from the NEH that summer stipends have been cut

No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.

‼️Proposals due 3/31: The 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (LACDH) will take place at the University of Puerto Rico from 11/5/25–11/7/25, followed by an online component on the 13th and 14th. More info available here: guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...

As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.

It also seems like there is a big opportunity for some country, somewhere (that isn't already sick of foreign students) to expand their English-language degree offerings and attract not just the academics, but the students.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...

Congratulations!

Extra impressive considering it's spring break!

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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century

If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

I really respect that some people would not want to live here but like anywhere, we have a diversity of people and opinions. It's not right for everyone, but hey, we're paying students to study history.

Still looking for someone to talk about their book with us on April 28…

If you/your student are interested in learning more about our FUNDED MA in History, join our information session on Thursday at 12:15 MT. It is hybrid, so you can join us from anywhere in the world! If you are interested, please get in touch and I will send you the link.

Hi Everyone! We have extended our deadline until April 1, so there is still time to apply to our MA program. We have several fully funded spots available. We also provide money for summer research and conference travel. If you have questions, please get in touch. Spread the word!

Absolute dream job here!

Seminar program 2025

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

Yay! Definitely looking forward to reading this one!

A Valentine with a picture of a steer, which says "You're utterly awesome".

Still puzzling over this Valentine my son got. If it's not sloppy, it's sublime.

It will probably kill me to take control of my 10 million photos, zillion emails, shared calendar, hundreds of docs, etc etc but I'm going to try to quit Google.

Image from Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show, depicting dancers in red, white, and blue forming an American flag.

I gave a lecture today and included this picture on a slide, so that is my one nod to cultural relevance. Back to 90s-kid jokes no one gets for the rest of the semester.

I just received the reader's reports for my book and they are *so* helpful. Our profession relies on a lot of behind-the-scenes, anonymous labor and I am filled with deep gratitude for the many people who took time to engage with my work in the past several months.

Image of a quote from a book: "Brother men, you who live after us, Do not harden your hearts against us." -François Villon

Talking a little about empathy in Historical Methods today, and bringing in this quote, used as an epigraph in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light. It gets me every time.

When I am not intently regarding maps, I advise MA students working on Early America, Caribbean, and/or Environmental History. 🫠