New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.

Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:

📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to: ✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website ✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org ✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community. The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️

If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention doi.org/10.1093/obo/...

Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.

"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern: www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...

Academics! Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others). Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026. Happy to answer questions! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Welcome to Bluesky, @sciam.bsky.social! 🦋 More of this, please . . . Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023. www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️‍⚧️🧪

book length version from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Go listen to my new series Science in Transition!! It's a history of the current anti-trans backlash and the first two episodes are out!!

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

An interesting programme at WHN conference this year -especially as RCN's Teresa Doherty, Joint Head, Library and Archive Service, is giving a keynote on day 2 #histnursing

This week on the podcast, @bellowsblakely.bsky.social -Blakely tells us about her new book, Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi and how UNICEF helped shape decades of international policy (and not for the better). Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf... (1/2)

Join us today for the book launch of Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi. Hosted by @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and Global History program at FU Berlin. 4 pm, Fabeckstr. 23, Room 2.2059. Book talk, comment from Prof. Abosede George, catered reception. See many of you there!

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by Caroline Fowler Duke Press (2025) 📌 Antien Knaap, MFA assistant curator and Prof Mary Hicks discuss impact of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 17th-century Dutch society—and how it manifested in art from the period. #Art #History

Check out this new article on colonialism, statues, and public space in Germany in the Journal of Modern European History. Written by my brilliant colleagues @uschaper.bsky.social and Dörte Lerp. Open Access here: doi.org/10.1177/1611...

Proofs! My article article about women's participation in early socialist medical mobilities will be out soon as part of a special issue in The Global Sixties Journal. 📚🗃🗃

🆕 und #OpenAccess 🔓: "Zwischen Kochtopf und Gleichstellung: Geschlechterwissen in Verbraucher:innenorganisationen". Der Forschungsartikel von @mpa-schneider.bsky.social zeigt, wie Verbraucher:innenorganisationen über Geschlechterverhältnisse denken. 👉 DOI: doi.org/10.17169/ogj...

📚 Book Launch 📚 @bellowsblakely.bsky.social  (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ), Abosede George (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) on "Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi" ⏰ July 7, from 16:15 to 17:45 📍 Freie Universität Berlin, FMI, Room A336 (Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin)

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

Downsizing higher education in the name of corporate efficiency squanders the collective expertise and experience in which immense public resources have been invested.

Excited to moderate this event tomorrow on inclusive research design, jointly hosted by the Berlin University Alliance and the Einstein Center Population and Diversity. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitmen...

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Excited to give a talk today at Stanford about my new book, Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi. I studied here as an undergrad and haven’t been back in a decade. Special to return to the place where the seeds of this book were sown! feminist.stanford.edu/events/dr-sa...

And two Research Fellow posts at the University of Leeds on the 4-year project ‘The Soviet Union, the WHO and Global Health, 1957-91’, which looks superb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

Here's the call for participation for a symposium on sexual harassment and violence in higher ed organized by @bellowsblakely.bsky.social @hpantelmann.bsky.social Dr. Sabina García Peter & Prof. Dr. Ebere Adimora at the Margherita von Brentano Zentrum @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social in September 👇

I talked with @ejeris.bsky.social about fascism, coalition building, and the compassion and shared knowledge we need to create safety and justice in these times. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or access a transcript + audio here:

Memories of German colonialism in Cameroon: In Episode 05 of Podcast „Decolonial Memories“, Dr Priscillia Manjoh talks about unity in her country & racism in Germany. @djaten.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @isdbund.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4nIX...

"We live side by side with yesterday’s ghosts, haunted by the histories they carry... If humanity carries on as it is, our story will eventually become a ghost story only, as there will be no one left on earth to haunt.…"

My book is out! Official publication date is May 6th, but hard copies are already shipping. Thanks to Abosede George and Lynn Thomas for graciously writing blurbs for the back cover. The acknowledgments section is four pages long for a reason! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️

An interesting post on the teaching of (women’s) history in schools in England. 🗃️#WomensHistoryMonth

Excellent conference on counter-hegemonic internationalisms at @northumbriauni.bsky.social thanks to the whole team on the AHRC curiosity project @riakapoor.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, and particularly Daniel Laqua for allowing me to attend w/out a paper! 🥳

Just arrived…

Re-read this today and it was such a powerful reminder of how European colonizers actively suppressed Indigenous African scientific activity in order to promote medical technologization back in the metropole 🧪 academic.oup.com/shm/article-...

They can never erase us because we won’t let them. nyupress.org/blog/2025/03... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️