Michael Baysa

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for July 2025.

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UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

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1776 Across the Americas As planning for 2026 is well underway at the John Carter Brown Library, we're soliciting current and former fellows' proposals for items to include in our forthcoming year-long exhibit "1776 Across th...

ATTENTION CURRENT AND FORMER JCB FELLOWS!

As planning for 2026 is well underway at the JCB, we're soliciting current and former fellows' proposals for items to include in our forthcoming year-long exhibit "1776 Across the Americas." 1/3

Complete the survey here shorturl.at/9FVYi!

YouTube video by CongregationalLibrary Dr. Thomas Tweed on His Book, "Religion in the Lands That Became America"

Thanks to Kyle Roberts and the Congregational Library & Archives for the chance to discuss my new book and its implications for thinking about the Congregational legacy and US religious history.
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@yalepress.bsky.social
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Wishing I could be as “productive” as these two 🤣

ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Excited to see my article “Protestant Hebrew: Performing Religious Authority through Eighteenth-Century Language Production” is available via FirstView with Religion and American Culture! #amrel

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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Happening now on AskHistorians! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Cover of the book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake by Judith Weisenfeld.

I'll be doing an Ask Me Anything on r/AskHistorians on Wednesday, July 16 and am looking forward to questions about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake* (NYU, 2025).
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Back at the AAS in Worcester for summer research - looking through manuscript submissions to early American newspapers that didn’t make it to publication

Thanks, Nick!

Thanks so much, Judith!

Thrilled to share the news that I just signed a book contract!

Unpublishing Religion: Race, Heterodoxy, and the Printing Press in Early America (tentative title) will be published with NYU Press as part of their North American Religions series.

#Acrel Job: Assistant Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. Review of applications begins September 8, 2025.
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Almost one month left to submit a proposal to present research on Black Religion in the Americas in the Crossroads Project's seminar. It is open to advanced graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars.

Call for proposals to present research in a new Crossroads Project virtual seminar on Black Religion in the Americas. All scholars in the field are welcomed to apply, but I'm especially interested in supporting independent and contingent scholars and advanced graduate students.

“Even so, demand for humanities majors is on the rise, and with good reason. “At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adjusting its hiring strategy for recent grads. “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said. “This demand for liberal arts degrees is due in part to the rise of artificial intelligence, which drives the need for creative thinking and so-called soft skills.”

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For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars:

Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Dissertation fellowship for scholars of queer and/or trans studies in religion.

Deadline: May 23

Many thanks to @historianca.bsky.social, Shari Rabin, and Pippa Koch for an amazing conversation on early America in religious studies! And Seth Perry for taking this photo of us right before our roundtable

Excited to be back in NJ/Philly area for this conference hosted by the McNeil Center on the state of the field of Early American Studies (and repping religious studies)

John Doe Chinaman — Harvard University Press A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination ...

My next book. Out in September!
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“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her ...

SUCH a great interview on SUCH a great film between SUCH brilliant scholars of religion and culture. #Sinners @mpgphd.bsky.social 🙏🏼 | religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...

Now Hiring: Acquisitions Assistant Acquisitions Assistant UNC Press seeks an energetic and intellectually curious candidate for the position of acquisitions assistant. The acquisitions

The @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions team is hiring an assistant! We are looking for someone detail oriented with great communication skills who is intellectually curious and interested in academic publishing. This is a great #publishingjob in the @aupresses.bsky.social community.

Cover of Anthony M. Petro, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art and the Culture Wars.

Another excellent day of #AmRel mail, with the arrival of @apetro.bsky.social’s new book, *Provoking Religion”!

Pope Francis, who reached out to the margins of society, has died at 88 The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

SHEAR Biography Workshop 2025 Call for Participants Visit the post for more.

CFP. SHEAR invites scholars to apply for the 6th Annual Biography Workshop, July 17, 2025 at Brown.

Sessions include chapter workshopping and reflections on subject choice, structure, and archival gaps.

Call now live on the #JERPano:
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