A Haitian woman in San Diego makes an emotional plea to her American neighbors and I finally cross the border to Tijuana. Read the latest entry in my free Substack “Notes from the Border
”https://open.substack.com/pub/macleodg/p/tell-them-why-were-here-san-diego?r=2dgdyq&utm_medium=ios
🤩⭐I got my copy of this incredible volume edited by Jen Boum Make and Charly Verstraet w/ a foreword by Jessica Oublié - I'm thrilled to be in such great company!🔥🎉
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I’m happy to announce that I’ve started a Substack called Notes From the Border about how we connect with others across the barriers of language, space, and culture. My current series “The Other Side” chronicles recent fieldwork with Haitian migrants in Tijuana. open.substack.com/pub/macleodg...
19.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Horrifying stuff from the University of Oregon. What a time to shutter Holocaust Studies along with many other crucial humanities disciplines. Share widely!
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I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
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Congratulations to Jenny Banh, an alum of our Dissertation-to-Book Workshop, whose book, Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland: Attempted Indigenizations of Space, Labor, and Consumption, is out from @rutgersupress.bsky.social!
(I also worked closely with Jenny on this book as a developmental editor!)
Hi, I'm a translator who works for a United Nations agency. As you know, every country needs trained multilinguals & it's impossible to become fluent in a language via ChatGPT. Or DuoLingo. Or Zoom classes. Fluency in a language requires immersion in its grammar & vocabulary, its history & culture.
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Read more here: www.allisonvandeventer.com/workshops
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New book: "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" @rutgersupress.bsky.social by our colleague Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/decolonial-c... #caribbeanstudies #environment #ecology #caribbean - Congratulations, Jennifer!
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