Rebecca Crist

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Heads up, Chicagoland—

ICE is OTG again, someone just spotted the Chicago ICE SRT guys (not National Guard, impt reminder) alongside other federal agents arresting someone in Cicero.

There's also a report of one arrest in Little Village.

I keep going back and forth from being excited about this data to concerned. 📚

Library Service Changes: What Duke Faculty Need to Know - Duke University Libraries Blogs The following email was sent by the Provost’s Office to all Duke University faculty on August 15, 2025. Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to share some important updates from the Duke University Libraries....

Duke University Libraries prepares faculty for some of the changes coming to library services 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2025/08...

Well that sounds great.

Report: DOJ Investigating George Mason Faculty Senate The Justice Department is now investigating the Faculty Senate at George Mason University after the panel backed the university president and affirmed that “diversity is our strength,” The New York Ti...

I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨

“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”

—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social

Rose Library awarded Getty Foundation grant to process Jim Alexander photography collection | Emory University | Atlanta GA Thousands of iconic images of African American authors, athletes, artists and activists, taken by documentary photographer Jim Alexander and housed at the Rose Library, will soon be easier to access a...

We are ecstatic to share that we recently received a $280,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the Black Visual Art Archives to process the Jim Alexander photograph collection! 🥳

news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

This consortium is dissolving over reciprocal borrowing. Because some board members don't want patrons being able to access information they don't control, 27 public libraries lose access to some part of the collection they've built together.

TODAY!

Join us in person or via Zoom livestream.

@womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Cover image of magazine Dark Fantasy No. 22, March 1980

@queensu Library has been collaborating with the @internetarchive.bsky.social on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to make copies of small print-run fanzines or zines of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction available.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/07/15/s...

Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.

Gifting this article! I loved my time in Champaign-Urbana and in the University of Illinois's Political Science Department. It transformed my life & made me into the scholar I am today. My life wouldn't be the same without that department.
h/t: @avitallivny.bsky.social

Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.

In the middle of “The Cornfield”—their name for it, not mine—thousands of Chinese students turned Champaign-Urbana into one of the most vibrant regional Chinese food scenes in the U.S. Now, visa crackdowns could gut it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...

Final Revised Project Stand Fellows 2023 Zine Created by the Fellows of Project STANDS' Second Residency: - Iris Afantchao - Hannah McGurk - Mia Sturdivant - Wanda Hernández - Rebecca Wells - Jerrold Mobley - Eleena Ghosh - Kristy Li Puma

Collecting history while it happens is challenging. Any resources on archiving unfolding events?

Here's one: Project STAND Resource (Zine): Preserving the Fullness of Social Movements and Activists
publuu.com/flip-book/35...

Emory University, where I did my doctorate, has cleared the encampment after tasing, gassing, and arresting protestors. I have emailed the university president and contributed to the bail fund. Both bail fund links in thread below.