Historian of Indigenous and #vastearlyamerica Assistant Professor @Trinity_U
San Antonio, TX
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My article on alcohol, sovereignty, and segregation in New Netherland is out today! I’m so grateful to all of my colleagues who helped me think through this difficult topic and to EAS for giving it space. muse.jhu.edu/article/846576
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👉🏾 The History Department at Trinity University invites applications for a tenure-track position in African-American history with an anticipated start date of August 2024.
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I read Native Son as a HS sophomore and it changed everything for me. And there it is, front and center on a cart of books removed from a HS library. My heart breaks for the students whose books and possibilities are being snatched away from them.
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
And today too.
Today (and everyday) is a good day to support the local Indigenous communities whose land we’re on. nytimes.com/2021/11/25/us/al…
Can’t wait to read about wind, slavery, and empire by the always incredible @DrMaryDraper (and all the essays in the latest EAS reflecting on Dunn’s Sugar and Slaves) muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/…
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The U.S. used generations of Native children as the tip of the spear in attacking tribal sovereignty. Will we learn from our past? Or—while we are still recovering the bodies of previous gens of Native children—betray the next?
My latest @TheAtlantic
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I see we are starting the “should UGs contact potential PhD supervisors for meetings” discourse again. A reminder of what we learned last time: every grad program has different norms/policies re: admissions and it costs nothing to politely decline a meeting if you must. 1/
Some programs encourage meetings, others don’t, and that info often isn’t available to potential applicants. They are advised to ask everyone they’re applying to work with just in case. Meetings can be valuable to applicants. Some programs’ admissions hinge on these meetings. 2/
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This conference is going to be excellent, and it’s hybrid too! I can’t wait to spend an afternoon discussing Alida Livingston and the world depicted in her letters.
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Like a lot of folks, I’m deeply disappointed by the essay published by the AHA president today. Dr. Sweet, with this piece, betrayed not only so many of his fellow historians but also the very ideal upon which his institution (my alma mater) is built: the Wisconsin Idea. 🧵
Understanding how the past affects our present circumstances is not presentism. Asking questions of the past related to our present circumstances is not presentism. It is the essential core of what it means to be a historian.
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A very good mail day!!! So excited to have this amazing book by @nmaskiell in my hands!
ALT Cover of Nicole Saffold Maskiell’s book Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry. The cover includes an eighteenth-century portrait of a white child in a red gown and black hat, with a white dog sitting under his outstretched left hand, and a Black (enslaved) child or young man standing behind him.
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The simple joy of writing about a printed book rather than a handwritten manuscript for once. Such a fine, legible text!
ALT A random paragraph from a 1644 book by Johannes Megapolensis. Text is in Dutch and discusses the weather and climate of New Netherland. Script is neat and uniform in seventeenth-century style type.
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I don’t know how to express the loss of my colleague and friend Carey Latimore this week, who was the heart of our department and beloved by all who knew him. This article is a moving tribute to the impact he had in San Antonio. sanantonioreport.org/carey-l…
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It was so wonderful to celebrate the work of @Trinity_U students at the Undergraduate Research Symposium today and yesterday. My advisees Ever and Maeve are such thoughtful scholars and it was an honor to work with them all summer. Congratulations everyone!
ALT the author and her two undergraduate research advisees.
So exciting!!
My book arrived in the mail!!! Time to unbox Bound by Bondage! Thanks to @CornellPress, @NewNetherland, and everyone who supported me along the way in bringing this story to life!
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