Leah Cargin

WHA GRADUATE STUDENT CAUCUS ELECTION! 2025-2026 Are you a grad student passionate about history and community? The Western History Association Graduate Student Caucus is accepting self-nominations for the following positions: Membership & Outreach Chair Vice Chair DEI Coordinator Social Media Chair The deadline for submissions is April 15 If you are interested, please email whagsc@gmail.com with a headshot and a 250 word bio!

The Western History Association's Graduate Student Caucus is seeking self nominations for several positions.

(The WHAGSC doesn't have a Bluesky account yet...but we're working on it! Please spread this message widely!)

Email a head-shot and a 250 word bio to whagsc@gmail.com

Gassaway, William T. “Extraordinary Bodies: Death, Divinity, and Distortion in the Art of Postclassic Mexico.” ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. Print.

Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery Indigenous religious beliefs and traditional cultural practices among the people of many West African ethnic groups suggest a precolonial logic that cast some individuals considered “disabled&#8...

Barclay, Jennifer L. 2017. "Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery." Pp. 77-94 in Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Sharing some citations I found:

Bacon, Wendy J. 2007. "The Dwarf Motif in Classic Maya Monumental Iconography: A Spatial Analysis." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Does anyone have recommendations for books / articles on disability in Mesoamerica? English or Spanish.

The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.

📢📢📢 Pitch call! Are you interested in writing about medicine, gender, or public health? Consider submitting an article to our editorial team. Details on submission guidelines below 👇

Nooooo, baby go take a nap.

Postdoctoral Fellow: History of Modern Medicine or Public Health. Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
Appointment is for 24 months & limited to those who are no more than five years out of the PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hines, who published the article “Ecology and Energy in Latin America” with the Latin American Research Review. You can find it at this link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Blue gondolas floating above a busy metropolitan of cement houses. Rounded mountains form along the horizon.

Floating above Gustavo A. Madero in CDMX on Línea 1 del Cablebús.

Las Grutas de Tolantongo, Hidalgo, México.

No worries 😁 I'm glad we're connected now.

Happy Birthday Akane! This cake looks delicious 😋

Beyond Big Tech: A manifesto for a new digital economy - People vs. Big Tech 70+ orgs back bold vision for a better, fairer digital world and call on states to invest for the public good

Beyond Big Tech: A manifesto for a new digital economy

peoplevsbig.tech/beyond-big-t...

Obsessed with a color coordinated bookshelf.

‘Israel destroyed Central Archives of Gaza City’: Head of Gaza municipality Central Archives contained thousands of historical documents dating more than 150 years - Anadolu Ajansı

Outrageous. What is this but the opposite of 'the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts'. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

Fellowship Opportunity!

CfA: "First Research Article” fellowships! Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems & Collective Life."
🗓️Deadline: Feb 16, 2025
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You can also ask your friends and family across the US to get library cards so you can collect them and add them to you Libby account.

Thank you Pioneer Library System, San Antonio Public Library, and Rochester Public Library.

The deadline for paper submissions to the Thinking Andean Studies conference is fast approaching. This is a small, intimate, and welcoming conference. I encourage all interested to submit their work and attend.

thinkingandeanstudies.com

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

What a cool two-year postdoc opportunity for those interested in Cold War Latin America! apply.interfolio.com/160583 🗃️

Agreed. Let's not feed the monster.

A glass plate with yellow Mexican rice, chicken drumstick, dark brown mole, and a blue corn tortilla.

Dinner tonight was chicken and rice with mole. I did not prepare it, but I ate it up, then thanked the chef (my grandmother-in-law).

Twilight 🍎