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On this day in 1948, "About 200 enthusiastic Far Easterners" met in New York to re-organize the Far Eastern Association—today, the Association for Asian Studies. Read all about it in this new #AsiaNow post!

“Two hundred Dalit workers, members of the [oppressed] caste in India’s rigid social hierarchy, came rom Rajasthan to New Jersey to work on the temple... Dalit workers are also purportedly not allowed to worship in these temples because of their caste ranking” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

chilling piece but good read “Technology is elevated as positive or even liberating, while in practice it becomes the architecture of control and systemic violence: automated targeting systems, predictive policing tools, border tech, and mass surveillance.” shorturl.at/Mhcnw

“We're going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong," he said.” 2001 to 2026.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

this birthright hearing is giving me brexit vibes. like we are just gonna kick-the-tires-this-to-apocalypse.

Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters

The university complied with 2024 request to supply not only a list of 🇵🇸 names, but also cv's, syllabi, and emails to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce

i hope everyone around me on the subway enjoyed my look of abject disgust as i read this.

Just in time for Passover. Thanks to Moment Magazine and Jacob Wirtschafter for this review of my recent book from @princetonupress.bsky.social! momentmag.com/book-review-...

Powerful words from J. Jackson in today's #SCOTUS conversion therapy case: "Before now, licensed medical professionals had to adhere to standards when treating patients ... Today, the Court turns its back on that tradition. And, to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now."

The University of Arkansas is moving ahead with terminating Shirin Saeidi, a scholar who literally wrote the book on Women and Politics in Iran, over tweets critical of Israel. Just colossally stupid in this moment. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

we said what we said @anthonymkreis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Canvas really should not be used in academic settings...

The writing tips I published one by one here have now been gathered up and published by Ed Simon in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*. Happy to make them available here: pghrev.com/sixteen-writ... Be sure to check out the relatively new PRoB while you are there!

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

New Brunswick plans on April 21 -- Talk about Jains as Empire Builders in Akbar's India. #Mughals #Jains #Rutgers

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya's Memorial Speech in honour of historian Prof. K.N. Panikkar (26 April 1936 – 9 March 2026)

Can you direct me to the No War on Iran protest?

today's walk

I’m the lucky one here. Meeting Durba almost a decade ago was one of the highlights of my life. Meeting Chandra, almost two decades ago, saved me. I can’t wait for tonight. Come through if at Princeton.

'AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying'. Without a doubt, a smart decision by the Guardian to publish this brilliantly-written #HistSTM piece. #HistTech #MilHist #HistWar 🗃️

#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled. carvehername.org.uk/...#OnThisDay, #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #History 🗃️

Walking With Stuart Hall

A new archive of some of the Palestinian scholars in Gaza assassinated and killed by Israel rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars...

(if you want to see how whiteness is coalition, look at the countries that abstained from voting that transatlantic slavery was "the gravest crime against humanity") news.un.org/en/story/202...

1 NEW from me in @literaryhub.bsky.social: I go deep on what it means that NYU has ended live graduation speeches lithub.com/the-real-can...

Absolutely thrilled for NYU Contract Faculty United @uaw.org, which has reached an incredible tentative agreement after negotiating for over a year. Teachers are suspending the strike and returning to the classroom this morning!

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

Map of land grant universities and their "coverage" of India during "Green Revolution" via Prakash Kumar's new book *A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy* (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

this is a crime against humanity

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

this Tuesday I will be speaking about my book, The Future That Was, with fabulous responses from Adom Getachew, Pratap B Mehta, and Camille Robcis at Columbia Law School at 6 PM register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Today is Eid Al-Fitr,the end of Ramadan, and Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. It’s been 167 years since Eid and Nowruz have fallen on the same day. Normally I would spend the day calling family in Iran 2 wish them a happy holiday. Since I can’t, here r some photos of Nowruz in Iran from last year

Eid Mubarak! (my *actual* fāl around iftari time)

The Cokie Roberts Fellowship jump-started my research for my next book. It supports women's history archival research, the kind of scholarship we really need right now. They are accepting applications for the next cycle by April 15. archivesfoundation.org/cokie-robert...

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

Americans are being gaslighted by our corrupt government and media; this unjust war on Iran has just crashed the world economy and your quality of life

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

NEW: Our editors collected 11 short essays on the war on Iran and the region from our contributors and members of our editorial committee. They encompass the political turmoil in Iran to the role of Christian nationalism in the US drive for dominance in the region. READ NOW

www.wherethefuturewasbuilt.org is so wonderful. Put together by UN foundation it really gives a flavour of the richness and depth, material culture and stakes, of these most important UN global women's conferences. Huge privilege to be researching these!

Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Read Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez in full: