📢New Publication! Thrilled to announce that one key project publication is finally coming out: “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of 'Exile', 'Asylum', and 'Refugee' during the 18th and 19th centuries” in Itinerario, edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social. See 🧵👇

First view of my article in an issue edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social on Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries doi.org/10.1017/S016...

As mentioned in the previous message, this wonderful article by @thomasmareite.bsky.social is part of our special issue in Itinerario. In it, Thomas shows how French refugees from the Haitian Revolutions negotiated their status to receive aid from Cuban authorities...

I am glad to see that the introduction to our special issue has been published. In it, @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I seek to further historicize the category of “refugee.” Early historiography on this topic focused primarily on its modern definition as established by...

🗣️ New publication! In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

It is a great joy to share that the special issue “Memories in Transit” of the journal Memory Studies, co-edited by my dear María Eugenia Ulfe and me, has just been published. We invite you to read it! 📚📖 journals.sagepub.com/toc/mss/curr...

I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️

Excited my research is out here and freely accessible!! Thanks Itinerario and my excellent editors @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It is finally out! Happy to share that my article “Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions” has been published by Itinerario in First View. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Este miércoles estaré debatiendo el nuevo libro de Nathan Perl-Rosenthal con @oscarszarate.bsky.social y @franmackandal.bsky.social. Si tienen tiempo, los esperamos este miércoles en Youtube. ¡Gracias al Centro de Estudios Históricos del Colmex por la invitación!

Vamos ministrar este curso de História Política e Social da Colômbia com Nathalia Sandoval, José Bento de Oliveira Camassa e Juan Francisco Beltrán. A ideia foi de José Bento, a quem agradeço profundamente.

🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra “The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)” 📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH

📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

Feliz de ver, por fin, este texto publicado. Fue uno de mis primeros acercamientos al tema de los emigrados de las guerra de Independencia cuando estaba haciendo mi doctorado.

📢Out now in print and #OpenAccess online: Jan C. Jansen, "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833," Comparative Studies in Society and History 67, no. 2 (2025): 429–456. @csshjournal.bsky.social

Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...

📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵

Fue maravilloso hablar con Jimena Perry, Carla Sagástegui y Malena Bedoya sobre bicentenarios, cómic, e historia pública. Aprendí un montón. ¡Muchas gracias por la invitación, Jimena! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0B...

Nosso seminário continua hoje na USP! Se você está no São Paulo, o/a esperamos na FFLCH!

Hoje começa nosso evento, "Cartografias de Escravidão," na Universidade de São Paulo! Teremos a abertura do evento e a conferência de abertura, ministrada por Alain El Youssef.

Happy to share my forthcoming article in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Into revolutions, emotions, and global connections? Have a look. The advance version is available open access here: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

Quiero compartir con ustedes esta reseña que escribí en Revista Almanack del primer volumen de Historias de lo Político en Colombia, editado por Francisco Ortega, Margarita Garrido y Franz Hensel. Pero, sobre todo, quería invitarlos a leer el libro. periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/al...

Fico feliz de compartilhar com vocês a programação do evento "Cartografias de escravidão" que será realizado na USP em maio de este ano. Organizar o seminário com Silvana Andrade dos Santos, Leida Fernández e Rafael Marquese tem sido legal demais. Se você estiver em São Paulo nessas datas, o/a...

👉 Here's a link to the online version: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

This weekend I received from @sfhs.bsky.social a copy of my contribution to the latest issue of French Historical Studies. This article is based on the discovery of a memoir written in 1807 by Alexandre-Joseph Lambert, colonial sub-inspector in Guadeloupe, preserved (...)

7/ Based on a close reading of the New Orleans-based newspaper El Español, the article explores how exiled Spaniards from Mexico mobilized against republican exclusionary policies and promoted imperial constitutionalism against abolitionism and ethnic conflict in a post-imperial Caribbean.

6/ One focus of our work has been on exile politics, and an outstanding example of this work is "Envisioning Empire from the U.S.: Exile, Constitutional Monarchism, and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Independence Spanish America," by @nagonzalezq.bsky.social, in: The Americas 80, no. 4 (2023): 537-568 👇

I had the joy of being a guest on Wendy Aris' impressive podcast project "Dis a fi mi History" on the history of the Caribbean recently. We are talking about refugees from the Haitian Revolution in Jamaica, and the relevance of this history for Jamaicans today. You can listen to my ramblings here 👇

Que bom ver esta entrevista com Rafael Marquese sobre o projeto intelectual do Lab-Mundi e a concepção de história global que o laboratório tem desenvolvido nos últimos dez anos. www.cafehistoria.com.br/lab-mundi-hi...

New article on Fast Track by Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas, “Conversion from Below: A Comparative Analysis of Colombian Indigenous Peoples’ Transformations of FPIC,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Oh look what has arrived today! Thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social and everyone involved in getting this out! Worlds of the ring is a rich cultural history that explores the circus from a transnational angle

Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/

📢New publication, out in #OpenAccess: "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833" by Jan C. Jansen in @csshjournal.bsky.social. Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S001.... Short abstract👇 in 🧵.

New social network. Let's see how this one goes...