Lediona S.

Thank you Rok!!

I am looking forward to joining SSEES, learning more from my brilliant new colleagues, and working on turning my dissertation into a book. If you are around the London area please let me know, I would love to connect in the fall!! 🙏

I am excited and humbled to announce I will be joining the School for Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) as the Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies in September! 🎉🎉

Today I visited my alma mater to speak to the newest Mellon Mays fellows about graduate school. Such a wonderful pleasure to talk to young researchers and to be back at CCNY! Special thank you to Prof. Isabel Estrada for the invitation!

I had such a wonderful experience learning about refugee history from such a group of scholars that covered a range of time periods and geographies! Truly a pleasure!

Thank you so much!!

Your constant love has sustained this project and helped me get to the finish line. I hope I have made you all proud.

They constantly challenged me and kept me on my toes. I am indebted to their enthusiasm for my work and kindness. To my colleagues and friends, thank you for all the wonderful conversations, your friendships, and care. To my family and parents, thank you for keeping me grounded.

Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation! I am eternally grateful for those who came on this long and difficult journey. A special thank you to my committee: Dr. Pamela Ballinger, Dr. Rita Chin, Dr. Hakem Al-Rustom, Dr. Devi Mays, and Dr. @leylaamzi.bsky.social

Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (New Texts Out Now) Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachuset...

In this "new books out now" interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social I describe a little bit of how UNMENTIONABLES came to be a book, and why Arab labor histories are so crucial in our moment of rising repression of immigrants and the left.

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Shum Faleminderit Vjosa!!

Faleminderit Gëzim!!

Submitted my dissertation to my committee a few minutes ago. Now I can go take a nap--which will probably be about a week long nap, before I can start preparing for my defense. This moment feels unreal.

Thank you to everyone for a well attended event! I learned so much from my colleagues--and now have so many new questions to reconsider and read up on!

Literature’s Refuge Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East—recovered and retold at last

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So this wonderful new book just dropped! 🎉

If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign.
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Eating is DEI now.

Couldn’t risk it! Might get scammed or something like that 😭

Sure—I am starting a Pan-Balkan project now!

I’m so glad I occasionally check my junk mail because it looks like I don’t really need US academia, you all really need me right now—I’m rich! 🥹🥹

I am convinced that parents who don't vaccinate their children, and allow them to die, should be charged with murder.

Anyone who is working on a book about SE Euro is welcome to get in touch about publishing in our series. The first round of books is coming out and it looks like writers (especially new writers!) will be in good company.
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Given that today is Teacher’s Day in Albania, my mom bought me Lilies in a beautiful flower pot. After 3 rejections today, I’m grateful for the support system I have all around. Now I will try to keep them alive!

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60 pages later and I think finally figured out the narrative and crux of this whole citizenship chapter. 🥳

I will be in Paris in March, at the @ehess.fr. I am looking forward to my stay and hope to meet many colleagues, especially those I have never met in person and only know from social media. Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet.

New Program Supports Scholars in Exile | U-M LSA Institute for the Humanities “In partnering with Academy in Exile, the Institute for the Humanities affirms its commitment to academic freedom, excellence in research, and global justice."

The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan launched a new program, Scholars in Exile, in collaboration with Academy in Exile at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Please spread to your networks.

You are welcome!