@sarahcdunstan.bsky.social
Historian of 20thC French & US Empire| Human rights, Citizenship, Race & Gender at the University of Glasgow Author of Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (CUP, 2021).
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Detail of the image on the cover of the volume. It is a sculpture of a figure crouching with their back to another figure, itself back-to-back with eleven other figures descending in height. The final of these rests against the fingers of a hand and all the figures, except the first, rest on the arm and hand, almost like a harp.
6/8 Finally, the editors of the volume @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - conclude the collection with a response to the aforementioned review articles & some reflections on the future of the field www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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An image of the Pan-African Congress in 1919. Ida Hibbs Hunt sits to the right of W. E. B. DuBois centre.
3/8 "[They] have rescued countless female voices from oblivion", says Mona L. Siegel (@calstate.bsky.social) & "will no doubt spark untold numbers of future theses [...] as students’ curiosity is roused by the sparkling intellect and unique vision of these women" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford
1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social
20.10.2025 06:36 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1Good to pair this review with Vivien Chang's penetrating essay on The Second Emancipation in the Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...
01.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0A fascinating read!
25.06.2025 07:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This looks good.
legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/cfp-...
Via legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com
A reminder of tomorrow's hybrid workshop on 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' as part of the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET project. All are welcome- registration necessary. We will discuss contexts as diverse as India, Eritrea, West, East and Southern Africa, the colonial Caribbean and beyond.
24.06.2025 08:09 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0"“What are we wanting students to belong to?” What is the space of the university? What is the history of our discipline? What key intellectual voices and ideas do we engage with? Should we really be asking racialised students to “be at home” in these spaces, with this history and with these ideas?"
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How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India?
In our latest GHIL #podcast interview we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces the transnational connections between Germany and colonial India in the field of racial science. 🎧
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It's the official publication day for the 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights!! New preface sets it in the context of the contemporary global Black Lives Matter movement.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#booksky #writingcommunity
17.06.2025 14:51 — 👍 12355 🔁 3024 💬 165 📌 108🌍 For #RefugeeWeek dive into our blog Excluded from the Record—a powerful look at women refugees & relief work from 1914-1929.
#HistoryMatters #WomenInHistory
Book launch news! I will be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. It’s free, but limited places so register here (from Monday).
I’ve managed to schedule this for Eid so expect a very dressed-up author and entourage!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
This is long overdue.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
La presse en parle ! 👀👀👀
Luc Daireaux donne la parole à Malika Rahal dans son podcast Chemins d’histoire 🌻 Juste ici !
cheminsdhistoire.fr/emission212/
Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present
& thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
A bit late to the party, but I hear all the cool people are over here now. Excited to be part of the Bluesky communities
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