Text: We're hiring. the Department of Political Science at Memorial University invites applications to the highly prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) Program with a specialization in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Closing Date: December 14, 2025. QR code and image with a picture of the Memorial University campus in the background.
Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
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Aww, thank you so much for the kind words!!! I hope you're doing well!
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The image shows the JCB logo and the cover of Schmitt's book, which depicts islands and the ocean.
Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
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Cover of the book The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt
My book is about how a century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged through practices of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean.
www.pennpress.org/978151282814...
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Thank you - I hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
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JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library
Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! ποΈ
jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
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Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
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The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
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Ask UP logo, tagline: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses
Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
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This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
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A Dream Realized β AHA
Leaving academia doesnβt mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. ποΈ
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Sure, and I do blue book exams in my lecture courses. But bluebooks are never going to be able to replicate the kind of thought that goes into crafting an essay. Writing and rewriting are crucial to thinking and a timed blue book only gets us halfway there.
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Yeah, mine too. It is really hard to describe how dispiriting it all is right now.
At least we have some solidarity! β€οΈ
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I know it's been going on for awhile, but I am just gutted today. I am grading really smart students who don't need to sell-out to AI but they did anyway. It's just depressing (and the essays are sooooo boring as a result).
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Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
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Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
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Donald Thompson: The humanities are a CEOβs edge
The humanities donβt slow business down. Critical thinking and broad contextual habits actually make the work world smarter, fairer and faster.
"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
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Support Jamaica
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
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I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Annual Meeting β French Colonial Historical Society
Share widely!
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
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Haha! Well, now I know what book two will be about! π
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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! ποΈ
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Congratulations!!! What well-deserved news!
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PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Faperj Postdoctoral fellow at PontifΓcia Universidade CatΓ³lica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) #MundosdoTrabalho #EarlyModernHistory #CaribbeanHistory #HumanidadesDigitais. ππ½ππ½ππ½ www.gentedemar.org
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at European University Institute
Working on cities, heritage, disaster, and war in SWANA
Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT β endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Journalist and affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. US/UK policy in Latin America.
Now researching: Environmental social movements, corporations, greenwash, water. https://www.grace-livingstone.com/
U.S. and global diplomatic and military history | teaching at Cornell, formerly at Cambridge
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT (November 11, 2025). Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Chief Transformation Officer, Hopkins Press / Project MUSE
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@projectmuse.bsky.social
M2 Sciences des Religions Γ lβΓcole Pratique des Hautes Γtudes | Histoire de la IVe RΓ©publique et laΓ―citΓ© || PassionnΓ© par les sciences sociales, lβenvironnement, le droit et la gΓ©opolitique.
Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), ArΕ‘Δma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
Historian, Author, avid reader. Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Latest book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies (Radboud University, Nijmegen); contemporary popular music, media, and visual cultures
Historian. Mom. Knocks on doors and talks politics. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/lara-putnam
Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
The podcast where historians pluck lesser-known stories from the past and serve them to you one episode at a time. New episodes every other Saturday. Est. 2013.
History with the fun bits left in.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com
