Dr. Giusi Russo

Hi Eleanor! The book looks amazing and necessary!

Emergency in Transit by Eleanor Paynter - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Hi there! I work on migration & asylum w/ a focus on rights, race, coloniality, & testimony in the Mediterranean & globally.
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative

My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Excited to share that I'll be spending my sabbatical semester at Swarthmore College as a visiting scholar. I’ll be writing my chapter on Tano D’Amico’s photography in a beautiful and inspiring setting.

My review of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the UN, 1946–1975 by @giusirusso.bsky.social is out in Comparativ!
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

Join us for a May seminar series!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle

Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.

See you there!

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!

#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025

drawing of three women on peach background title of exhibition Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade For Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now 10 Feb to 22 Aug.

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 - Nebraska Press Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 tells the story of how women’s bodies were at the center of the international politics...

If you are teaching a course on gender and internationalism, I'd like to recommend my book, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations," University of Nebraska Press, 2023,

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

I'm returning to teach this summer for a week at the Provincetown Work Center's Queer Week, 6/22-6/27. I'm teaching alongside Andrea Lawlor, Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Opie, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Celeste Lecesne, Ilanda Savdie, and Miriam Klein-Stahl:
fawc.org/summer-progr...

Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.

bbc.com/news/article... The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.

Two people, a man and a woman, dance on an open air dance floor. The two are close together, their heads almost touching. Both look down, apparently at their feet. This black and white photo conveys a palpable sense of joy

Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... a new review of my book!

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81 As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

She lives on: Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black joy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

@anardozi.bsky.social Angela 😘😘

Reclaiming History: Rebecca Nagle on Native Struggle and Survival "There are historical patterns and political patterns that a lot of people might not be able to recognize," says Rebecca Nagle.

I interviewed @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.