UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates. https://bit.ly/3WFBSpb #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

My first academic article is out in the journal Latino Studies! Read if you're interested in performance, memory, and Latinx identity formation. Thanks to my colleagues, friends, and partner for supporting me in this publication process! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

***Attention fellow historians, scholars, and concerned individuals*** The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit. If you would like to keep this essential resource afloat, please consider donating: www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

Hey fellow terminated #NEH fellows @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info Sharing my #NEH Appeal of Termination, which I uploaded into the eGMS system. Mine is for an individual fellowship. Another example below. It is recommended that if you were terminated you get an appeal in today.

It's been a week since #NEH staff arrived at our jobs as public servants and discovered DOGE circumvented our databases and terminated our #humanities grants. Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.

On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded. Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Ep. 079 is here, recorded live at the Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton! We hear from Brian and Anne García-Romero about their new book, Fornés in Context, Jacqueline Flores about the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Gwendolyn Alker about Fornés's biography. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/3/...

Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

Many in higher education worry that President Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities leaders are not finding many vocal allies to defend them.

I hear DOGE has come to NEH. NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (of the Navajo Nation) is out, and acting chair is Michael McDonald, best known for his legal career fighting affirmative action.

Applications are now open for our sixth Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship for post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances Afro-Latinx Studies. Apply by April 30th! See 🔗 in bio for details

Call for abstracts--Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University. I'm co-editing a special issue of American Studies on the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies. We'll be reviewing abstracts beginning April 15th! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

Link here www.neh.gov/executive-or...

J Butler “Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now. This does not, in my view, entail a negation of this world, but only a critical interrogation of the limits of the imaginable in light of radical democratic claims.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...