Job vacancy: Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies The postholder will be appointed for two years to undertake an independent programme of research in Albanian Studies. 💼 Full time, fixed-term 🗓️ Closing date: 30 April 2026 💬 Interviews: 26 May 2026 ➡️ Apply now: buff.ly/hs3NHH8

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My new book arrived in the post from @manchesterup.bsky.social! Pleased to see it for real! Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in Modern France manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/ 🗃 #skystorians

Postdoc opportunity with Ota Konrád in the project Everyday Histories of Violence in Europe. platform.crowdhelix.com/opportunitie...

Okay, before I start cold-emailing folks, I just wanted to see if anyone in my network can connect me to someone who successfully applied for an SS-Humanities European Research Council Starting Grant? I just want to see what worked while I compose my own application. Thank you! #skystorians

Perfect headline/photo combo.

Shall we run and then jump? #oilpainting #art

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NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

For @religiondispatches.org I wrote abt Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance and the rituals he enacted. Caribbean spirituality is imbued w everyday moments of sacredness that form a link between us and our chosen divinities. religiondispatches.org/2026/03/09/b...

E pluribus unum.

This is the story of slavery at its most traumatic, one predicated not just on physical violence against enslaved people by slave owners, but the all-encompassing terror of slavery as a psychological tool of control and oppression, and the desperate ways enslaved people tried to resist it. A small 🧵

As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.

As I was reading about the new nonsense in U.S. education policy and the importance of the "Western canon," I learned of this cool project to produce high quality ebooks of public domain works, available to download for free! Check it out: standardebooks.org/ebooks

I'm going to #BASEES in Birmingham this year to talk about my new work on democracy, technology, and policing in interwar Czechoslovakia. Please feel free to message me if you'll be there too!

This is why in higher education you should not let your curriculum be driven by 'demand.' You need give students the precious opportunity to discover the things they don't already know they will be excited about.

City nights #oilpainting #art

Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

📣 Job Opportunity: Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in European History at #UCLA! The UCLA Department of History seeks applicants for a 2-yr Postdoctoral Scholar. Please apply or share with anyone who might be a great fit! 🗓️ Review begins: Apr 1, 2026 🔗Details & application ⬇️ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10862

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You can now pre-order *Cisgender: Disorienting a Category* (out in July) for $20 from Duke UP with a 30% off! Code: E26CGNDR. Really grateful, too, for these amazing blurbs from Susan Stryker and C. Riley Snorton! dukeupress.edu/cisgender

Hvar in the Modern Age by @fbieber.bsky.social traces the history of the island using it as a lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states & identity, tourism & the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea & the region of southeast Europe. 🔓 https://bit.ly/49LfcLF

My former department at UT Austin has awarded me the 2025 Lathrop Prize for best doctoral dissertation in History! The prize committee had this to say about my work: "Parker gives a closely argued and abundantly documented account of the conflicts surrounding the police and security services, ...

Rather than worrying about the pressures, headwinds, and challenges, I've decided the only thing is read a book.

A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.bsky.social

"The unelected Board of Regents will decide what topics students should be taught, how topics should be taught, and what topics to exclude, instead of relying on instructors who know the field and trusting students to explore topics." Alarming for academic freedom not just at UT but across the US

When we write we do not have a fully formed idea that we then flesh out with words. The act of choosing and shaping sentences and paragraphs helps us discover the emerging idea like a sculptor finding the shape available in the stone.

From my alma mater: "UT will separately consolidate Germanic Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and French and Italian into a new Department of European and Eurasian Studies."

An extraordinary opportunity, and so heartening to see this support from UCL-SSEES for fragile yet extremely valuable fields of scholarship!

Bureaucracy has always been critiqued as "automatic," but at the end of the day, the people handling the files were *people*, each one of whom could leak information, toss a file in a bin, or object to the mission. These acts often weren't that disruptive--but it was room for dissent nonetheless.

📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher! The researcher will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939. 👉 ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu...

Army, disasters & modern city? Our exhibition on the ring boulevards of Kraków, Brno, Košice, & Szeged shows how modern urban space grew from crises to negotiations & how provincial cities shaped their own modernity. On view at the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social Museum until the end of Feb. 2026.

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

🔊 Due to high demand, this event will now be livestreamed online Join us for an exploration of how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging. 🗓️ 3 February at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

📜 From Old Books, 1900s “Those skilled in their craft do not grow wrathful; they resolve the matter with gentle sweetness. For the master of a task is yielding by nature— what sense is there in a fire that burns both kebab and skewer?”

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

some people will literally check social media repeatedly instead of writing their book

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

Immigrant-owned businesses across the state are closing or reducing their hours because staff members — even those who are in the U.S. legally — are worried about being profiled and detained by federal agents since immigration enforcement operations in the state have ramped up.

Hey! Guess what? The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st! You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏 www.swaan.org/workshop

Could someone recommend a good read or reads around Central Europe roughly during the Weimar Republic period with a particular focus on the artistic movements it threw up. Further more a book or series of books that examine the same but with a sole focus on Germany. Ta.