Mallory Szymanski

I teach Taxi Driver in my History of Film class, and I will add this piece from @jasonhiggins.bsky.social to my syllabus.

Join us Feb 19, 2026, 3:30-5pm EST for our next Writing Workshop. Dr. Sarah Steele, postdoctoral scholar at the Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons Project, will present their paper: “Transmisogyny in BC Federal Prisons: Experiences and resistance strategies of incarcerated trans women.” #academicsky

A Continuum of Federal Violence: A History of Indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the Wake of the Murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti Federal immigration violence against Minnesotans in January 2026 echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century.

In the wake of the ICE surge in Minnesota, @legg.bsky.social explains how federal immigration violence against Minnesotans echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. 🗃️

Before Norman and After Norman: The Impact of All in the Family on American Television Fifty-five years ago this month, All in the Family debuted, launching a transformation of the American sitcom.

This month marks 55 years since the premiere of All in the Family. Historian @oscarwinberg.bsky.social, author of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics (2025) explains the show's transformative impact on American television. 🗃️

This is a friendly interdisciplinary group of researchers who believe working in community is essential to policing research and carceral studies. If that sounds like you, join us. 🗃️

2026 is a big anni year, especially for US #skystorians. Yet there are so many events, large and small, worth remembering. We welcome creative--and global--approaches to this. Send us your pitch. #academicsky

“I Was Called, Too:” The Life and Work of Coretta Scott King In honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, it is both appropriate—and overdue—to discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we r…

When honoring Dr. King's legacy, we must discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King, Dr. Kris Burrell argues. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we remember her not as a shadow of her husband, but as an equal. 🗃️

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This historical examination of US capitalist interests and (lack of) respect for sovereignty from @eblevey.bsky.social is a must-read. 🗃️ #academicsky

With the end of 2025 upon us, I wanted to create a thread of everything I'm thankful for from this past year. 2025 was filled with highs and lows, but I'm filled with grace from all the comradery and support I received this year.

Please share your own lists as well. 🗃️ Let's celebrate us!

As a UF alum, I'm delighted to see this serious #skystorian treatment of indoctrination--real or imagined--in Florida and beyond.

Go Gators?! #academicsky

Surviving Grad School: How to Read and Take Notes Efficiently When I googled how to survive a graduate seminar, I found a zillion different websites with a zillion different opinions. I realized that I could spend my entire graduate career reading tips on how…

What have #skystorians been reading in 2025? Look back at some of our most popular pieces this year.

Topping the list is Julia Haagar's primer on grad school reading and note-taking. clioandthecontemporary.com/2019/09/23/h...

Preparing Comps Reading Lists While most graduate students focus on the labor of reading for comps, compiling the reading lists themselves takes time and reflection. Be strategic and minimize your workload, but also be aspirati…

@seangallagher.bsky.social continues our comps series writing about strategies for preparing your comps reading lists: "Compiling the reading lists themselves takes time and reflection."

Join us for interdisciplinary collaboration and support—the kind we think we don’t have time for at this point in the semester, but so desperately need. 🗃️ #academicsky

Had a blast writing this piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!

What the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Can Teach Us Fifty Years Later Fifty years ago the ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm. But more than the “gales of November” wrecked the Fitz. The ship was also the casualty of a globalizing neoliberal…

On the 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Jerald Podair shares the broader significance of the tragedy, not just on the lives of those involved, but on the broader implications it represented for the post-WWII US economy. 🗃️
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Jeff, would you be interested in writing a piece this week commemorating the anniversary for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ?

Check out Clio’s latest from our very own @oaverettephillips.bsky.social with fantastic advice for PhD students. Check it out!

Today!! 4pm EST in-person at @binghamtonu.bsky.social and on Zoom. Come let us tell you about the good archival trouble we’re getting into. 😇🗃️#academicsky

From @keanuheydari.bsky.social : “The comprehensive exam is a strange hybrid: part intellectual calisthenics, part memory sport, part existential reckoning.”

This is so useful for current and prospective graduate students. 🗃️

Not that I’m rushing the snow, but I am so ready the for cozy, uninterrupted writing time that wintry January in Upstate NY can offer.

Let this help demystify this rite of grad school passage. We called it quals at UF, and whew, it was one of the toughest periods of my professional life.

Action Alert: Submit Comments on Proposed Patriotic Education Funding Priority The American Historical Association (AHA), National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and Organization of American Historians (OAH) jointly encourage our members and other supporters of a full ac...

The AHA, @socialstudies.org, and @oah.org encourage our members and other supporters of a full account of history to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority by October 17, 2025. Learn more and take action here 🗃️:

Police and carceral history from the margins. We’re building the ship as we sail it at @unyprc.bsky.social, & we love collaborating. Come see what we are up to, and join us. 🗃️ #academicsky

I'm pretty sure mentors tried to tell me many of these things, but seeing them written here makes them so real. Also, King captures something I had not thought of: how my undergrad at an enormous R1 shapes my perception of "what professors do," even now in mid career at a SLAC. #academicsky 🗃️

Add this to your Proseminars and Historians' Craft syllabi. #academicsky 🗃️

We have two rooms still available. Come write and commune with us. My favorite (optional) part: ending each day with a hot tub soak in the snow!

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For when you need something smart to read to distract you from the news.

Today! 🗃️ #academicsky

Sign up to join our monthly workshop. We are filling spots for spring semester, so contact us to workshop your paper in progress. We’re a friendly and helpful group.

Buckle up. 🗃️

I feel obligated to keep trying to convince my students not to sacrifice their own skill development to AI while in college, but I think I come across as preachy and out of touch. @lornab.bsky.social and T-Pain send a much more compelling message that I plan to adopt into my classrooms.