If you’ll be in Boston for #AARSBL25, please join us on Sat, Nov 22 at 9am for a Religion and Eugenics roundtable I’m organizing. We’ll be in conversation with Jamie Marsella, Melissa Wilde, Beth Stroud, Charles McCrary, and Terence Keel—would love to have this urgently needed conversation together.

If you’ll be in Boston for #AARSBL25, please join us on Sat, Nov 22 at 9am for a Religion and Eugenics roundtable I’m organizing. We’ll be in conversation with Jamie Marsella, Melissa Wilde, Beth Stroud, Charles McCrary, and Terence Keel—would love to have this urgently needed conversation together.

My article, “Outposts in the Wilderness: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, 2004-2024” is out with Religion and American Culture. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So excited for my colleague @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social — who just started her new role as Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School — and her fall course, Celebrity and Charisma in American Christianity! It’s going to be such a fantastic class.

Garamond is the font that gently places the syllabus in your hands and whispers, “You won’t understand me now. But one day, you will.” Garamond doesn’t care if you miss the deadline. Garamond is the deadline. It’s not illegible—it’s just emotionally unavailable. (written in Garamond, obviously)

The Scopes trial turns 100 this month. Kelsey Hanson Woodruff writes about the legacy of the Scopes trial in Dayton, TN, and how one resident, Rachel Held Evans, tried to push evangelicalism beyond Young Earth creationism's culture war battle lines. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

On July 4, 1917, Henry Ford’s English School held its graduation. Immigrant workers in native dress descended from a mock steamship into a giant cauldron marked “Melting Pot” and emerged in suits, waving US flags. Assimilation staged as public ritual. Credit: The Henry Ford Collection, THF106481

Harvard Kennedy School announced backup plans in case it can't host international students: new and returning international students would be able to study remotely, with an option to attend the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to finish their Harvard degrees.

Harvard Kennedy School announced backup plans in case it can't host international students: new and returning international students would be able to study remotely, with an option to attend the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to finish their Harvard degrees.

It’s official — @historianca.bsky.social and I are moving to Charlottesville! I’m so excited to start a new job as an Advising Fellow at UVA, advising and teaching students as they start their college experience under the leadership of the wonderful @meirazk.bsky.social

This has been the hardest week I've had since coming to Harvard. But then these books arrived, one by one, like gifts. They reminded me why I study, why I’m here, and what still calls me forward. Grateful for the scholarship and spirit of @tomtweed.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com,& Gordon Chang.

I’m thrilled that my new book from @yalepress.bsky.social was officially published this week. Thanks to all the students, colleagues, archivists, and librarians who helped along the way.

Congrats Chanhee Heo on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis!! So excited to see the vital scholarship Chanhee will continue to bring to conversations on race, religion, and migration across the Pacific.

Please join the opening event of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new exhibition “Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.” Erika Lee, Eunsong Kim, and Shaina Lu will be talking with the curator Victor Betts. April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), 4PM ET RSVP here 👇

So thrilled to host 2025 Spring Harvard Study of Religion Book Talk with Melissa Borja (U. Michigan) for her multi-awarding-winning book, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change. 📅 Wednesday, April 16 🕔 5:00–6:30 PM 📍 Thomson Room at Barker Center

So thrilled to host 2025 Spring Harvard Study of Religion Book Talk with Melissa Borja (U. Michigan) for her multi-awarding-winning book, Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change. 📅 Wednesday, April 16 🕔 5:00–6:30 PM 📍 Thomson Room at Barker Center

Breaking: The Constitutional Court of South Korea has unanimously confirmed the impeachment and removal of President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea.

Please join the opening event of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new exhibition “Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives.” Erika Lee, Eunsong Kim, and Shaina Lu will be talking with the curator Victor Betts. April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), 4PM ET RSVP here 👇

South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies falsified documents to make them more adoptable. Here’s what South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found. nyti.ms/3XYEsHJ

Please join an online event marking the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875! @iehs.bsky.social and @ihrc-umn.bsky.social are pleased to hold this joint event on April 22. Register below! umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A legend has passed. K.W. Lee was a towering figure in journalism, Koreatown, Asian America and the pursuit of truth and justice. So gratified that Julie Ha and Eugene Yi centered K.W. in "Free Chol Soo Lee." Deepest sympathy to his family and loved ones. asamnews.com/2025/03/10/f...

Harvard has just announced a University-wide staff and faculty hiring freeze to help the University preserve its “financial flexibility until we better understand how changes in federal policy will take shape.” The freeze will go into effect immediately across all of Harvard’s schools.

82 years ago today—Feb. 19, 1942—Executive Order 9066 was signed, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, 2/3 of whom were US citizens. The incarceration of Japanese Americans revealed how “enemy” and “citizen” are not opposites but shifting categories.

A big welcome to @catholicuarchives.bsky.social who just joined Bluesky!

Classical Music Statistics 2024 via @bachtrack.com link: bachtrack.com/classical-mu... Top 10 Busiest Conductors 1. Klaus Mäkelä 2. Andris Nelsons 3. Jakub Hrusa 4. Iván Fischer 5. Manfred Honeck =6 Paavo Järvi =6 Sir Simon Rattle =8 Esa-Pekka Salonen =8 Cristian Macelaru 10. Daniel Harding

My @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element, “The Author in Early Christian Literature,” is officially out and free to download for the next 4 weeks! I hope you enjoy these thoughts on Paul, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Eusebius, and a host of other ancient folks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

In this fascinating column for Time Magazine, Jane Hong dismantles the “demographic destiny” myth: Latina/o & Asian American voters are not political blocs but shaped by distinct histories—WWII incarceration, Cold War anti-communism, Prop 187 backlash, evangelical shifts, & generational divides.

Religion and Indigeneity in the Pacific and Asian Americas is hosting its third talk on Feb. 5. Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum (@kginlum.bsky.social) will join to share insights from her 2022 book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, and explore its broader implications. RSVP: tinyurl.com/4pjvk6ff

Religion and Indigeneity in the Pacific and Asian Americas is hosting its third talk on Feb. 5. Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum (@kginlum.bsky.social) will join to share insights from her 2022 book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, and explore its broader implications. RSVP: tinyurl.com/4pjvk6ff

This is an exciting new Fellowship opportunity, to fund travel to Boston to conduct research the Boston Public Library! www.bpl.org/blogs/post/a...

I've been waiting for this book to be released and the pre-order page is finally live! Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad (UCP @ucpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Kevin O'Neill is a transnational ethnography of clerical child abuse and I’m thrilled it’s now within reach.

I just watched The Brutalist, which ran almost 4 hours. While its striking cinematography and innovative stylistic flourishes are undeniable, the narrative lacks cohesion, with blunt storytelling choices and underdeveloped threads that fail to fully immerse the audience in László Toth’s journey.

The ACHA invites submissions on any topic relevant to the study of Catholicism for its annual meeting in Chicago from Thursday, January 8, through Saturday, January 10, 2026. To submit a proposal go to: achahistory.org/chicago2026/

Open to the public! Religion and the 2024 Election Tuesday January 28, 4:30pm PT In person and on Zoom

JOB Opportunity Harvard's Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights seeks a Lecturer in Asian American Studies. Focus on interdisciplinary work engaging Asian diasporas, histories, and relational ethnic studies (inc. Pacific Islander studies). Position carries a 3-year term. Review begins 2/7/25

JOB Opportunity Harvard's Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights seeks a Lecturer in Asian American Studies. Focus on interdisciplinary work engaging Asian diasporas, histories, and relational ethnic studies (inc. Pacific Islander studies). Position carries a 3-year term. Review begins 2/7/25

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Call For Papers The Pasifika Religion & Spirituality Talanoa | Harvard, an interdisciplinary symposium, invites proposals critically engaging Pacific Indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, climate justice, and Pasifika well-being. 📅 Nov. 19-21, 2025 📍 Harvard (Cambridge,MA) 📝 Abstracts due: 3/31

Call For Papers The Pasifika Religion & Spirituality Talanoa | Harvard, an interdisciplinary symposium, invites proposals critically engaging Pacific Indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, climate justice, and Pasifika well-being. 📅 Nov. 19-21, 2025 📍 Harvard (Cambridge,MA) 📝 Abstracts due: 3/31

Met yet another person mocking a fellowship funded by Panda Express. 3 years in, funny how funding from corporations with fraught legacies—even ongoing harm—rarely raises eyebrows, or how people so at ease with positions named after slaveholders or self-serving billionaires reduce this job to a joke

UNC Press Holiday Sale is extended through 1/31/25 ⤵️ Check out our latest releases and use promo code 01UNCP30 for ✨30% off your purchase✨ And: US orders $75+ receive free ground shipping ❄️

Pretty great mail day at the office! I have no idea how @laurenfturek.bsky.social & @burnidge.bsky.social managed to bring together all 44 (!!!) contributions, but I’m thrilled to be part of this volume.

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

Excited to be part of this cohort!

Kelsey Hanson Woods @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Harvard University, where she is working on an ethnography of digital communities of post-evangelical feminists. Welcome Kelsey!

The only Emily that deserved to go to Paris.

Fresh from the Digital Humanities Interview series: Holly Miowak Guise on working with oral histories, documentary film crews, and her recent book monograph (Alaskan Native Resistance: Voices From WWII, @uwapress.bsky.social). @hollyguise.bsky.social iehs.org/digital-huma...