Casey Schmitt

Yes! And the ties between Puerto Rico and North America are deeper than most people realize. I wrote a lot about how Puerto Rico played an essential role in English colonization of North America.

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🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Congratulations to @randybrowne.bsky.social!!!

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Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...

Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians

What a fantastic special edition, with some top-tier scholars of monetary history! It's always worth reading @thetimeisnye.bsky.social on Ottoman Empire and Shweta Banerjee on the East India Company.

I wish there was an easy trick! I usually start with letters I know and build from there. That, and I keep my fingers crossed that the worm-eaten bits aren't the most important parts!

Haha! Thanks for the confidence boost!

1540s! These midcentury documents are some of the worst.

Poorly preserved 16th-century document with holes.

New year and a new project... 🫣

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Thank you so much for these kind words! It's always flattering to be put in the same conversation with @murphyte.bsky.social!

She's just incredible! And thank you!

That's really kind of you to say!! It's so weird to have it out in the world!

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It's here! The most wonderful time of year!

"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."

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This is amazing! I am counting the days until baseball starts again!

CALL FOR PAPERS: Patrick Wolfe’s Settler Colonial Theory, 20 Years On This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies aims to collaboratively examine the residual impacts of Patrick Wolfe’s influential essay, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native." • What did this essay do to shift or situate the conversation of postcolonial studies towards settler colonialism? • What chord did it strike that made it so widely taken up? And how have the essay’s key concepts travelled globally? • How do the essay’s arguments hold up when considered in settler colonial contexts not addressed in Wolfe’s essay. Our aim is to curate a special issue by inviting a mix of scholars from across the globe, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, established and newer voices, to comment on the essay in 2026 as a way to examine the current state of the field. We seek research article contributions of 5,000 words that will undergo double-blind peer-review and also encourage reflective essays and creative responses to “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” We will hold an online symposium in June 2026, where a working version of accepted essays will be shared with scholars from across the globe. Our target deadlines are as follows: • 350 word abstracts by March 15, 2026; • Conference version of the paper for the online symposium in June 2026; • Submitted draft for peer review, October 2026; • Revised and final draft for publication, Jan 2027; • Publication: May 2027. Please send abstracts of 350 words with a 1 page CV to: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, rebeccawh@vt.edu or raweav1@yahoo.com. Please make sure the subject line indicates the special issue. Abstracts will be acknowledged with an email. If you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, please email Rebecca (in case your original email was unintentionally filtered out by her email program).

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.

Details below. Please circulate widely!

YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library JCB Reads 2025 with Casey Schmitt

Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️

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Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Thank you, I will certainly take you up on that.

Haha! You mean me harassing some poor, unsuspecting literary agents!

That's really good to know and, obviously, very different from a first monograph with an academic press. Thank you!

Thank you so much!

At what stage did you begin working with your agent? Proposal? Full draft?

Thank you! In terms of advice on proposals - at what stage in the writing process do you recommend trying to find an agent? I had assumed the proposal would already be written by the time you reached out to agents.

Do you mind me asking two things: how did you find your literary agent? Where did you secure a contract? (No pressure if you'd prefer not to answer publicly.)

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. All of those things and whether it felt worth it to work with an agent at all.

Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️

Awww, thank you!!! I hope you enjoy reading mine; I know you'll enjoy reading Jordan's!