I'm looking foward to talking about my work at Penn later this week.

HISTORY MADE 🏆 A’ja Wilson is the 2025 WNBA Kia Most Valuable Player — the first player in league history to win 4 MVPs. #KiaMVP | #WelcometotheW

Where @kashana.blacksky.app absolutely obliterates a certain kind of media profile...

I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.

I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.

This month we are launching AAR Fall Fridays, a webinAAR series that will highlight the scholarship coming from our diverse AAR program units. Join the first one on September 26 at 12 PM ET hosted by our Indigenous Religions Program Unit: aarweb.org/event/teachi...

Foundation Presidents speak out on political violence and the fundamental freedom of speech: “We reject attempts to exploit political violence to mischaracterize our good work or restrict our fundamental freedoms, like freedom of speech and the freedom to give.” medium.com/@uniteinadva...

This week 14th Amendment Center webinar series begins. Tuesday & Wednesday night will be focused on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. Follow @the14thcenter.bsky.social REGISTER NOW! howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If you're in or near Durham next week, join me and the marvelous western women's historian Sarah Deutsch for a conversation about my book! Details are in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social

Like what business does the United States have responding at all "Brazil's supreme court has--" mind ya bidness

my girl @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social saying what needs to be said "History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned." religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...

Extremely proud of my former student and False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social collaborator Olivia Haynie, who has written this excellent piece on the comparison between Nazism and Confederate commemoration for her new column at The Forward @forward.com forward.com/culture/7669...

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Reminder that my department is hiring in early Christianity. Our search last year was canceled in the hiring freeze but we're happy to be able to conduct the search this year at the assistant professor level. Deadline for applications is 9/30/2025.

Job: Applied Religious Ethics at Oberlin College. Review of applications begins 10/20/2025.

If you are at the US Open and in the audience while Trump is there: 1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not. 2. Record it. Record all of it. 3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy. Applications due by Oct 15! apply.interfolio.com/170389

"But fueling Jewish studies on the fumes of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education is not a win. It’s a trap, and one we fear will bring ill consequences to our field, our universities, and American Jews." From @lilacb.bsky.social, Kate Rosenblatt, and me.

An Oneida legend from Six Nations— RIP to an incredible Indigenous talent.

One-semester visiting fellowship: Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies at Princeton awarded to 1 or more "distinguished writers, critics, journalists, musicians, artists, or other contributors to the arts, letters, public service, or commerce." Deadline 12/15/2025

Just a few hundred more needed to reach the August goal. This is a vital organization helping immigrant communities in NJ whose members have been targeted.

Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.

Gauff vs. Osaka in the #USOpen round of 16 is going to be something. 🎾

A group of Black lawyers who oppose Trump's executive order targeting the Smithsonian have created a petition to demand that the institution remain independent and free of political interference. It also calls for resistance to any attempt to censor history. Sign the petition.

Townsend d. Mirra Andreeva 7-5 6-2 Incredible moment for Taylor. Into the 2nd week of a Slam for the 2nd time in her career. Playing the best tennis of her life, without question. ✅1st top 10 win since 2023 ✅Won 9 of her last 11 matches Make way for Tay Tay. 🇺🇸❤️

Job: Sikh Studies at the University of Toronto. "The successful candidate will also be eligible to be named as the inaugural holder of the Dr. Davindra Singh Chair in Sikh Studies for a five-year term, which will be renewable following a favourable review." Deadline: October 15, 2025

I think people assume that knowledge is just something that exists eternally, once achieved, as opposed to something that has to be cultivated and can be lost.

We've got a new opportunity to engage the study of Black religions in the Americas in a public seminar I'm convening this academic year.

Absolutely false. I was in the stands and Taylor was encouraging us to cheer her win and let Ostapenko hear it.

What a sore loser. I was there and Taylor came back from 3-0 in the first set, weathered a bathroom break and trainer call to win decisively.

Job: Associate or Full Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College specializing in modern American Christianity. Deadline: October 1, 2025.

Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025. *In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner. Free and open to the public. Registration required.

In some good news, @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including mine which is up for pre-order, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50 🙌 uncpress.org/978146968920...

Save the date for this fantastic conference at Princeton: October 3-4, 2025. *In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and Power,* organized by Professor Nicole Myers Turner. Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Visiting Research Scholar in African American Studies at Princeton whose work focuses on"race in the national or global contexts." "With the approval of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the VRS will teach one semester-long undergraduate elective course." Deadline 12/15/2025

Gaza is officially in a famine as Israel starves 2 million people to death. This level of suffering is completely unimaginable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

My latest on the death of James Dobson-

In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

The thing about this is that the African American history museum’s narrative is one of progress and achievement, but T and his ilk may hate that more than the focus on slavery.

Things are going great bsky.app/profile/retu...

Happy to be in such great company! I recently created a Storymap companion to *New World A-Coming* focusing on Father Divine's Peace Mission in Harlem if the students are interested in some of my data and new analysis: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/weisenfeld

My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.