Anca Wilkening

Yay. Congratulations!

Try being married to him. Constant imposter syndrome.

Cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Katharine Gerbner. Features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom. The title is overlaid in large black serif font with the subtitle below in smaller black text and the author's name is at the bottom. A vertical red stripe runs along the left edge of the cover.

Check out the list of terrific #NewBooks we're releasing this month, including "Archival Irruptions," by Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social: buff.ly/oH4sMaj

Excellent cupcakes for an excellent book

My wonderful partner @historianca.bsky.social put together book celebration cupcakes for work today and I love them

I have heard that one before... from you... multiple times..and you're always wrong

Teaching with Native American and Indigenous Religions on Stolen Land – AAR An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Indigenous Religions Program Unit How can we nurture greater respect, more nuanced understanding, more care-full critical thought, and deeper community eng...

Sign up for this webinar with Indigenous scholars in anticipation of the book on Teaching Native American Religions we have been working on (edited by the lovely Dana Lloyd).

aarweb.org/event/teachi...

It’s Rapture Day and Bisexual Visibility Day - so if you're still here tomorrow, congratulations, you're bi and fabulous!

Happy birthday to my ride or die academic and life buddy @seokweonjeon.bsky.social
Your birth was a gift to me, our communities, and the world. I am so grateful to have you by my side, including during our very short-notice impromptu civil wedding earlier this year.

I immediately added this one to the must-go list. Thanks for sharing.

The graduate minor aka. Secondary concentration is actually in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Who wore it best?

I was tempted

I can top that. Earlier this year, a journal asked me to peer review my own article submission. Thankfully, they caught the mix-up before I had to send an awkward rejection email. 😅

Ha, fair enough. That is why we need people like us who read Kurrent!

Oh yes, I know all of these guys and have worked with their MS collections. This is great! What was the project for?

That's great. Do you remember which missionary it was or what time period it was from?

What We Forget When We Forget "How Bad Slavery Was" Some thoughts in relation to the craft of history and the theorization of archival amnesia

One thing one learns as an academic is to stay in one’s lane. But in alarming times like these, rife with the dangers of knowledge-destruction, perhaps we shouldn’t always heed that… Erasures of the history of slavery impact all of us. open.substack.com/pub/humanhis...

I will make a note to send an email when I have defended but if I forget please give me nudge.

Absolutely. I am hopefully finishing up by the end of the academic year.

I was already a big fan of our partnership but recently @chancebonar.bsky.social and I have teamed up thinking about 18th. Ct. manuscripts of Lenape translations of New Testament texts and we might take this to the next level.

Some residential staff leaders restricted and railed in DEIB work for a couple of years now, by either remaining or restructuring or cutting down roles.

100% and yet, some of this has been brewing for a while and is not so recent. The Dean of Faculty, for instance, quietly nicked Diversity statements for faculty hires over a year ago in the early summer of 2024. Before the election.

Yupp, largest self-reported ancestry/ethnic group in the US and certainly the bodies of 19th-ct US settler Colonialism. And yet when I tell some of my American colleagues and friends that my work in American history is predominantly in German-language archives they are utterly confused

One interesting thing that happens if you look for newspaper articles about people named Schmitt in Missouri in the 1850s is that you get lots of hits to German-language newspapers...because, you know, the Schmitts of Missouri were the sorts of "real Americans" who made the country great.