Anca Wilkening

Florida places temporary ban on H-1B visas in university system The move followed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call for universities to eliminate the visas. University system decision-makers expressed a willingness to be nimble

Florida prohibits universities from using the H-1B program to hire “new employees” until Jan. 5, 2027. The change will not affect existing H-1B holders, according to system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues.

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In Germany, we call this Aprilwetter. I guess in VA it's Märzwetter

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It is going to be beautiful by the end of the week

I wish my high school English teachers could read this. I received the lowest grade in my entire senior class on my English Abitur exam 🤣

Reviewer 2 was right--the article is clear and enjoyable and compelling and rich. Cannot wait to read more of Anca's work.

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And you are a fast reader! Thank you so much.

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵

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Aww, that means a lot. Thanks and excited to hear your thoughts.

A choice that feeds into the narrative right-wingers construct about religion, academia, and early America etc.

I deeply appreciate the efforts of @kawulf.bsky.social and her team, together with @mbaysa.bsky.social and others, to advance public scholarship and to reorient the ways religious studies and American religion discourse intersect with early American studies.

#AAR is hosting this webinar series for America 250, but unless I’m mistaken, the first three don’t include any panelists specializing in early America or the Revolutionary era and the fourth has just one 🤔

Meet the article Reviewer #2 called "extremely assignable" for grad and undergrad students

Contributor: What 'America' meant before 1776, and who 'Americans' are today The label is often wielded now to exclude brown people, but these two continents have been a melting pot since long before the U.S. was founded.

In 1507, the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller coined the term “America” in honor of the Florentine adventurer Amerigo Vespucci, and placed it on a world map.

In 2007, the Library of Congress paid $10 million dollars for the map. But "America" here didn't refer any part of the US.
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study theorizes estrangement as a catalyst for redoing family through a dynamic process of rebuilding kinship's meaning, structure, and content. Background Research on family estran...

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Applying redoing family theory to estrangement interviews, findings show family remade through chosen & symbolic kin: trusted peers, surrogate elders, and sustained non-estranged ties—advancing family as mediated practice over static institution. #FamilyStudies

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

I’m writing about Lenape and Mohican Moravian children who were interned in Philadelphia in the 1760s right now, and I keep finding myself thinking about the injustice they endured—and sobbing over the painful parallels to what’s happening today.

Blaming 'Paganism' for Trump's Violence Fails Reckon with Christian History In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might ...

New thoughts by me for @religiondispatches.org, responding to a NYT piece that (I think really wrongly) characterizes the Trump administration as doing "pagan," pre-Christian, or un-Christian activities

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This this this. Wish I could send it to former boss and colleagues who preemptively disbanded a DEIB committee (even before Trump’s election!) because they were thrilled to not have to put up any resistance at the slightest critique

100% and in the case of Harvard Dean of Faculty Nina Zipser, she even did it before the election and complied in advance when slashing DEI statements from faculty hiring. They have shown us who they are and now we have to make sure we remember.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Germans are serious about boycotting the soccer world cup because the US is hosting it. I don't think everyone understand how big of a thing the world cup is in Germany. Like giant screens in every town square, some churches, beer gardens, bars, lecture halls for public viewings kinda big.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I was utterly unsurprised to see that my former boss, Harvard economist David Laibson, also appears in Epstein’s email discussing invitees for a private dinner at Harvard.

Laibson has also publicly defended Larry Summers.

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Not daddy just chilling in the background

Queen S is patiently awaiting Benito Bowl

Scholars playing pong

@historianca.bsky.social is kicking @chancebonar.bsky.social’s ass

Taking a brief break from seven days a week dissertation writing for my first AISA conference