Happy to have contributed a review of Liliane Stadler's excellent book on Swiss diplomacy during the Soviet-Afghan War to the latest H-Diplo Roundtable. Other great contributions by Timothy Nunan, Sandra Bott, Vassily Klimentov and Robert Nichols. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

I wrote the introduction to this @h-diplo.bsky.social forum on Liliane Stadler's recent book "Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992." Thanks to @emleake.bsky.social and reviewers like @mbgoransson.bsky.social! issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Jer...

Interesting call for papers for historians of global development and US foreign policy from the Journal für Entwicklungspolitik on "The End of USAID": jep-journal.com/call-for-pap.... More information at the link, deadline for proposals is October 31, 2025.

This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.

My department at the @uniregensburg.bsky.social is hiring for a postdoc in area studies (3 years, with possibility of a 2-year extension). This is a full-time position, open to relevant fields in the humanities & social sciences. Deadline is September 30! karriere.uni-regensburg.de/jobposting/d...

Interesting fellowship opportunity for postdoctoral researchers at 🇺🇸 institutions (including non-US citizens) to relocate to 🇦🇹 for four years with up to €500K funding: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi... (Applicants need to be nominated by 🇦🇹 hosts, but there are instructions for how to reach out!)

This online workshop on academic publishing (July 9 at 15:00 GMT) from the Toynbee Prize Foundation and the Journal of Global History, hosted by @emleake.bsky.social @heiditworek.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity for early career #skystorians: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

@uniregensburg.bsky.social is looking to hire a full professor (W3) of Comparative Politics, focusing on 🇪🇺 politics. Please circulate within your networks – I'm not on the search committee, but am happy to provide information about 🇩🇪 job searches & Regensburg: www.uni-regensburg.de/assets/unive...

"Germany’s direction is clear: a shift away from the pretense of self-reflection, toward a colder and more militarized vision of the German state and identity." @hahauenstein.bsky.social with an excellent, if sobering, overview of German politics in 2025. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germany-ha...

"Researchers from around the world have used the archives for projects, and scholars especially value the center’s records of documents from the Cold War era." DOGE's
dismantling of @wilsoncenter.org is a brazen act of vandalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Very excited to say something I haven't been able to say in a decade: we are hiring a tenure-track historian at Louisiana Tech. We're casting the net wide, basically any field outside of North America. Happy to answer any questions ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...

Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk: "American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out ‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader." 
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Looking forward to speaking on my current book project this Wednesday, March 12, from 16:15-17:45 at @recetvienna.bsky.social. Thanks to Eva-Maria Muschik for the invitation and the chance to engage in conversations with #skystorians in 🇦🇹! www.recet.at/event-news/e...

An insane decision by the State Department to terminate the Title VIII program, which has allowed American students to study the languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia – all essential for foreign policy, intelligence, the military and not least a better informed citizenry.

Dt. Hochschulverband: "Die kurz vor Beginn der Erhebung zurückgetretene Bundesministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger wurde von 2.422 Teilnehmenden bewertet. Ihre durchschnittliche Bewertung von 4,82 ist die 'historisch' schlechteste Bewertung für diese Position." www.hochschulverband.de/fileadmin/re...

Looking forward to checking this out from #skystorians @drichterova.bsky.social, on Czechoslovakia's Cold War intelligence relations with terrorist organizations. Looks like an interesting contribution to work on ties between MENA and Eastern Europe! press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watchin...

"Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität können kontroverse Debatten geführt werden?" Erstaunlich zynische Worte, mit denen die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social politischer Einflussnahme nachgibt und die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland gefährdet. www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/nach...

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

🚨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!

"Er stand dort für eine an Europa interessierte Forschung, die an Epochen erinnert, in denen Ideologien eine herausragende Rolle im Meinungskampf spielten. Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ." Jürgen Kaube in der @faznet.bsky.social zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

I'm saddened to learn about the passing of Anson Rabinbach, who was a wonderful scholar and the most supportive mentor I could have hoped for as an undergraduate student. Colleagues at the University of Wisconsin are collecting memories via the link in @jennifervevans.bsky.social's post.

Grad students and recent PhDs: apply for our 2025 summer research grants! $3-4k. Apps due March 9. More info: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

I'm hiring a post-doc working on 🇦🇿🇰🇬🇹🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺 for our new @dfg.de-AHRC project at @uniregensburg.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics." More information here: www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

"Wie soll denn Antisemitismus mit einer Resolution bekämpft werden, der die AfD zustimmen kann?“, fragte Miriam Rürup. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

"Der Antrag schafft eine Grauzone für Willkürakte, weil nicht klar ist, was erlaubt und was verboten ist." Gute Einordnung der Hochschulresolution in der @taz.de von Dörthe Engelcke: taz.de/debatte/!606...

"Diese Resolution ist in dieser Form ein Eingriff in die Hochschulautonomie und die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wie es ihn in der Bundesrepublik noch selten gegeben hat." Gutes Interview der @taz.de mit Historiker Ulrich Herbert zur geplanten Hochschulresolution: taz.de/!6062234&s=R...

If this executive order is allowed to stand, it means that the American constitutional system — which rests on concept of co-equal branches of government checking and balancing each other, with Congress granted the power of the purse — has collapsed. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"Der Antragstext stößt bei Studierenden und Lehrenden auf Widerstände [...] Eine staatliche Intervention, um diesen Diskurs zu steuern, sei nicht zulässig." Eine wichtige Einordnung der @taz.de zur geplanten Bundestagsresolution und Wissenschaftsfreiheit in 🇩🇪. taz.de/Protest-gege...

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Germany with a focus on the int’l/ transnational history of technology, medicine, and environment? Come work with me @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! I’m looking to fill 2 PhD positions (for 4 years), details below and inquiries very welcome zzf-potsdam.de/en/chances/j...

Job in Economic Geography! Come join us as either Doc or Postdoc if you are interested in critical, heterodox and spatial takes on the economy. #geo #geosky #econsky #geography www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-...

I'm looking forward to attending the 2025 Pierre du Bois Annual Conference on "The Cold War in the Middle East" at @gvagrad.bsky.social 🇨🇭 later this month! Information about speakers, program, and registration available here: www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/2025-the-col...

„Eine Zeitung hat im Idealfall keine Meinung. Sie hat Meinungen. Eine Uni genauso. Was man hier sucht, suchen sollte, um daran zu wachsen, ist die Konfrontation, die Reibung. Und sei es nur, um zu begreifen, wie Menschen zu ihrer Gegenmeinung kommen.“ - @ronensteinke.bsky.social in der SZ

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him? My latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

„Wer eingebürgerte Deutsche gegenüber geborenen Deutschen rechtl. abwertet, beeinträchtigt die freiheitl. demokr. Grundordnung. Dies hat das Bundesverfassungsgerichts 2017 in seinem NPD-Urteil festgestellt. Wohl auch deshalb hat sich die AfD in diesem Punkt gemäßigt.“ Einordnung von Christian Rath:

Looking forward to following @efdavies.bsky.social's new Substack on Eastern Europe. Franziska has been one of the best voices in Germany debunking pro-Russian pseudo-scholarship and explaining how the history of 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱 relations impacts the present. Check out her writing (her Substack is in English)!

I have not been involved in the AHA for several years, but I am glad to see this resolution pass. American historians should stand up against the destruction of universities, libraries, bookstores and archives, not least when fueled by American weapons. www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...

@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

ATTENTION! 📢 #CfP for the 2025 Global History Student Conference is open. Students of #globalhistory are welcome to show their work in Berlin. Applications due January 31, 2025. Travel funding available APPLY NOW: globalhistorystudentconference.wordpress.com/application/ #GHSC2025 #studenthistorians

Prepublication online version of my new co-authored (with Kate Tietzen-Wisdom) article is out in Diplomatic History. “Iraqi Archives and post-Cold War Continuity: A View from the Global South” academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a... It looks at the post-Cold War through Iraqi archives. It is ... 1/

💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" here in Regensburg has announced a one-year post-doctoral position (deadline: January 12, 2025, position runs from April 2025-March 2026). Feel free to write to me with questions: europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

The Office of the Historian at State has two openings right now to work on the national treasure that is the Foreign Relations of the United States series. www.usajobs.gov/job/820195900

Looking forward to reading this by @boydvandijk.bsky.social!

Honoured to be giving the annual Ann Lambton memorial lecture at the British Academy in London this Thursday on Iran's relations with Africa in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The event will also be streamed live. www.bips.ac.uk/event/politi...

Cold War Historians...not at all thorough or complete so pleae make suggestions or ask to be added! go.bsky.app/NAWTQUp

Question for historians: I have just discovered that someone has copied an article I submitted for a journal (which was stuck in R&R) word for word and published it under their own name (without the slightest changes). Any recommendations for how to proceed?

Our first #InterConnections book is out in the UNC Press Spring/Summer Catalog!! So excited for everyone to read these fascinating new oral history-based pieces on ordinary people's experiences in Cold War Asia uncpress.org/book/9781469... 🗃️ @juliairwin.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social

A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3