Emily Mitchell-Eaton

I chatted with Javier Arbona-Homar about our books for the
@abusablepast.bsky.social! Huge thanks to the Radical History Review, especially @marisollebron.bsky.social and A. Naomi Paik, and our editor, Kingsley, for inviting us to have this conversation. tinyurl.com/mj2ca39e

Thanks to @colgate.edu Colgate Research magazine and journalist Olivia Campbell for this feature on my book! She caught me feeling optimistic. :) @ugapress.bsky.social news.colgate.edu/researchmaga...

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Join us at 4:15 PM EST on Tuesday, August 12 for our next online book event with @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. Hongdeng Gao will moderate the discussion.

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When you are organizing an issue campaign, you always do a power map where the identify your allies, opponents etc... the Mamdani campaign and most of the NYC should consider the NYT an opponent and act accordingly.

Join me and Omar Valerio-Jiménez with Hongdeng Gao for a discussion of immigration histories and politics (and our books!) on August 12!

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Going to @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast this June for the first time, to present in a session with the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group. Who all's going? What are you working on? What's rad at BISA? Looking forward to connecting.

Imperial Migration | KPFA U.S. imperialism has produced migration, sometimes to places you wouldn’t expect. According to Emily Mitchell-Eaton, the Marshall Islands and Arkansas are both central to the workings of empire. The p...

Thanks to C.S. Soong at Against the Grain for a great chat about my book! We discussed the militarized management of racial outsiders in Arkansas and how "white towns" under settler colonialism are not natural but rather forged through violence. Listen to the podcast below:
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Thanks for the shout-out, John!

It was a pleasure talking with Miranda Melcher at @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book, New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States @ugapress.bsky.social

Listen to our conversation here: newbooksnetwork.com/new-destinat...

Thank you @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social for including New Destinations of Empire on this year-end list! Honored to see it in such esteemed company--it's worth checking out all of these books. Manuscript Works is such an indispensable resource and community for book authors!

It’s finally here! rowman.com/ISBN/9781786...

Also want to echo @austinkocher.bsky.social's recommendation to check out Brittany Lauren Wheeler and Meagan Harden's excellent Law & Space article, called “Negotiating Their Future: A Marshallese Geography of U.S. Policy."

Thanks, @austinkocher.bsky.social, for the shout-out to New Destinations of Empire! Austin Kocher's work is indispensable for anyone trying to make sense of the contemporary U.S. (and beyond) immigration system, particularly immigration enforcement, detention, and border policing.

New Destinations of Empire: With Prof. Emily Mitchell-Eaton Podcast Episode · 13 · 11/12/2024 · 1h

Thanks to Colgate 13 podcast and Dan Devries for interviewing me about my new book, New Destinations of Empire! Really enjoyed the conversation. @colgateuniversity.bsky.social @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social

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I’m happy to announce that my book, New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States, is out today! Thanks to my fantastic press @ugapress.bsky.social and to @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social for editing and indexing support.