Sarah Knott

Sending good thoughts, Julia

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature (full-time)

JOB. Dix-huitiemiste, assoc. prof, Oxford. Do join us. My colleagues in English are the business. www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj

GRADUATE ARCHIVE FELLOWSHIP FOR HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, 4-8 week visit, $5000: kinseyinstitute.org/collections/...

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously? Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.

What can happen when there is a women's movement: 'Bogotá is pioneering “care blocks,” neighborhood hubs where women can access free laundry, legal aid, job training, mental health services, and more while their children or elderly relatives receive care on site www.vox.com/policy/46963...

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Eleanor Rathbone Professorship of Contemporary European History at University of Oxford Explore an exciting academic career as a Eleanor Rathbone Professorship of Contemporary European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP284/e...

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website

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JOB, statutory professor: Post-1970s European History, University of Oxford. Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History, a storied post one held by Timothy Garton Ash, details at the link my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

ONE YR SENIOR FELLOWSHIP: 'Scarcity and Abundance', here at Oxford's Koch History Centre: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/k.... Wonderful opportunity to have Oxford be your research sanctuary and your scholarly community, 2026-7. SHORT DEADLINE

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

Meet Professor @sarahknott.bsky.social, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at @stjohnsox.bsky.social and @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social.

We spoke to Professor Knott after her inaugural lecture this week about what the Chair means to her, and why it's so important.

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

POSTDOC at Edinburgh on digital slavery project. www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

A picture of 5 people in a panel discussion on stage with archival images on a screen behind them

Grateful to share insights from our archives w/ @stjohnsox.bsky.social + @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social this week. As Prof. Sarah Knott shared, historians rely on archives to do what they do, & safe repositories like ours are essential for contextual understanding & research

Full details including how to join remotely via Teams here ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist

Great dissection. Certainly a hard take on Orwell if you read him (as I did) as an adolescent. There's patriarchy and its erasures and presumptions, and there's also cruelty. Following your lead to avoid spoilers

HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November

Joel & I in conversation with the wonderful @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social - talking about friendship, forms of belonging, & revolutionary histories for @historyworkshop.org.uk

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Thanks for the shout out! And - uncanny - two of the others are on my shortest list of favourites, too. Now to read the others

The Invention of Gay Community, 1953-1969 Norther American History Seminar- Session 2

My wonderful new Oxford colleague, queer US historian Mori Reithmayr, is giving a paper in London on 13th Nov on the invention of gay community: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Oh my, a real surprise! And so lucid, too

Wonderful!

There's always the covid vaccine. Lyndal Roper. I can think of a few good things

For @thetls.bsky.social, I reviewed Emily Calacci's excellent new book on Wages for Housework. Read it and dream of an end to capitalism's gendered exploitation!

Thanks for reporting in safe, Seth

FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...