Calling all EC researchers working on environmental law. Come and tell us about your work in London on the 21st of April 2026!

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

Hi everyone! I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at @uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility" by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh Is now out in full and free to access academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

A few words on the article about historiography that everyone is annoyed about. There are obvious technical problems with the suggestion that historians may soon let LLMs sift through the sources, suggest a book structure, select examples from the sources etc. 1/x

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union" by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Looking forward to seeing the publication of “State-making in an age of Revolution, 1830-80” in August after receiving a preprint of my chapter today. Full details and contents page here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.

Book talk tomorrow (29 May) hosted by UCL‘s Institute for Jewish Studies Glenn Dynner on “The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland in the Eve of the Holocaust” 6 PM UK (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET, 7 PM CET, 8 PM IT) @uclhjs.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents? Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw

We're hiring! Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations. Sharing = 🙏❤️ www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Geht jemand der*die mir folgt die Tage ins Berliner Landesarchiv und könnte für mich gegen Bezahlung oder/und Orangenmarmelade eine sehr kurze Akte bestellen und kopieren? Danke!

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)' par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social) Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

🎮 Four months ago, as part of the Game Jam of @rdvhistoire.bsky.social, we developed in 48 hours a video game based on my doctoral thesis on fin-de-siècle historical reconstructions, with a team of programmers, game designers and graphic designers.

Hot off the presses! My article about Friedrich Schiller’s East European Jewish reception, available in Polin 37 (in excellent company). With appearances by Fradel Shtok, Karl Emil Franzos, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Pauline Wengeroff, and more. Thanks to the editors for their diligent support.

Hey everyone! My contract is about to end so I would appreciate you all keeping an eye out for roles/funding schemes that may suit me. I am a "geriatric ECR" too far from PhD viva (5 years) for most postdocs yet unable to get permanence with the job market being the way it is.

As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE

Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in @vittles.bsky.social today: A cultural history of the polski sklep www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...

RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).

QueerMuzeum Warsaw is about to open! I am super excited (and a bit nervous). Our page is already online (English version will be in a couple of days), along with the exhibition guide, describing centuries of Polish queer history 🏳️‍🌈👇🏼 queermuzeum.pl

I've made a start pack on imperial Russia, which anyone interested in the subject is welcome to join go.bsky.app/5BYjY1u

I created a thing! It is definitely missing people - if you are a person who should be on it, pls let me know! go.bsky.app/8HazBeR

I shared my thoughts on transnational archival research and decolonization in an article in @kritikajournal. Many thanks to editors of the timely methodological forum on writing new tsarist and Soviet histories without current access to Russian archives. muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Cc: @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social Great new article about suburbs in late-c19 and early c20 Russian Poland

In a miraculous turn of events another article of mine has come out! Please read and let me know if you need a pdf. muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Today's "Anti-War March" in Berlin, led by Navalnaya, Kara-Murza & Yashin seems an appropiate day to re-publish my essay on why the West and in particular Germany should take a closer look at the self-proclaimed leaders of the Russian opposition in English:

I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6

I spoke to two wonderful archivists at the Open Society Archives about their vast and varied (and to a large extent digitized) sources for @peripheralhist.bsky.social - take a look! I really recommend the archive for anyone working on post war Central/ Eastern/ Sotheastern Europe :)

My article on Revolutionary Avengers is out in OA. Please read!