Jonathan R Parker

Just updated my bio here. Now living in the North Star State, but open to postdocs and early career-type academic positions wherever they are available! My specialty is modern Central and Eastern Europe, along with global histories of empire and nationalism. Also pretty handy with MS Excel!

I feel this in my bones

go ahead n check your phone one last time before you go to sleep or you might miss that rejection letter

Oi!

CFA!

In Latin American Spanish, “Pope” and “potato” are written the same, except for gender capitalisation, so (el) Papa ⛪️ and (la) papa 🥔 sound the same. Which is making Peru’s chips brands do this bit: “Perú, Tierra de Papas”; Peru, Land of Potatoes/Popes

Almost as if there were well-founded reasons why people in the past rejected monarchy as a system of government.

The emergency is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding emergency.

Thank you!

It's official! Today I defended my PhD dissertation, and so I am now Dr. Parker! Only a few minor corrections to make to the dissertation and one more month of teaching, and I will have concluded my PhD in History! Looking forward to a long vacation and what comes next.

I did it! This past weekend, I submitted my dissertation to my faculty committee. 273 pages or 87,000+ words in the end. Looking forward to the defense in just a few weeks!

Imposing a tariff (as time spent checking the syllabus) on questions exported by students into my inbox.

📷 The First Known Color Photograph of Döner, İstanbul, 1908, Taken by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont #Döner #Kebab #History

I've had insomnia for the past week, even before DST kicked in! Although Sunday morning was especially confusing because of it...

Event poster for 'Book Launch: The Last Peasant War (2025) by Jakub Beneš'. In-person event.

Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert.

Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.

🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
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Thank you! 😊

Currently trying to power through final revisions to my dissertation draft, due at the end of next week with my committee, even with everything else going on... Fingers crossed for the defence in just over one month.

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My new book - 'A Pacific Power' - has a cover, and you can pre-order it! www.waterstones.com/book/a-pacif...

Freedom is temporary. TrumpCoinTM is forever.

CfP Annual Conference of the Collegium Carolinum 2025 "Globalizing Interwar Czechoslovakia", Fischbachau (Oberbayern), 13-16 November 2025
Deadline: 15 April 2025, collegium-carolinum.de/jahrestagung... @aseees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!

Argh, the State Department historical documents/Foreign Relations of the United States series websites keep going on and offline (I'm intermittently getting access and then getting 502s). Trying to download as much as I can while I can. Really not good...

attn: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Books.

They are AWESOME.

You purchase one, and you OWN IT. It's like, THERE right on your shelf.

It doesn't require regular online patches.

You don't need to be online to read it.

Books fucking RULE.

Abolir les passeports ? Les gouvernements contre l’opinion Au 20e siècle, l’histoire de l’abolition des passeports est l’histoire d’un continuel atermoiement. En 1920, la « suppression totale des passeports » est reportée par la Société des n...

If the passport was such a useless vexation after WWI, why wasn’t it abolished?
Here, the hypothesis of political “utility”: the regime of obligatory passports enabled governments to control the transnational activity of political opponents. 🤔
- my new article
journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699

Thanks! I was actually able to access it through my uni's library, already in my to-read pile.

Thank you! This is perfect for a course I'm thinking of designing.

Cambridge University Press has now reactivated #FreeAccess to "Varieties of Nationalism" until the 6th October! check it out👇
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

One has to work hard to build visibility here. So I thought I'd share a recent publication, an introduction to our special issue at ERH with Vedran Duančić, entitled Eager to (let) know: knowledge production and dissemination in state socialist Eastern Europe.🗃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The feed isn't empty on my end. I can see your question and several other posts.

The trouble with finishing the draft of chapter 2 is that now I have to start drafting chapter 3 😳