Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.

Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.

Hey all, I wrote a review of Elisa Camiscioli's wonderful new book _Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations_ in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern History. The book is a fascinating read. www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy048.nclive.org/doi/10.1086/...

Wish I could see this exhibit on the Terror, and thanks to Paul Werner for bringing us this report with fabulous images. Especially the David poster in which he blames his imprisonment on jealous painters! theorangepress.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

Excited that my article "Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, & Fashion in Belle Époque France," is in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society. Find out how ladies' hats became a matter of environmental policy! 🗃️ nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College is hiring a 2-year Visiting Professor, specialization open! Deadline to apply is Feb. 1, 2025. www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Let’s talk about the architecture of Wicked. 🚨 Spoilers ahead: At first, I was intrigued by the shift of the depiction of Oz from Art Deco (in The Wizard of Oz, 1939) to Art Nouveau. But after seeing the movie, I can’t stress how absolutely brilliant production designer Nathan Crowley is.

Marc #Bloch va entrer au #Panthéon. Un professeur d'histoire, un résistant, un penseur décisif et visionnaire du dialogue entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales. www.liberation.fr/sciences/his...

Tenure Track job in African American History at UNC Charlotte. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

extremely interesting that no one with money is to blame for the state of things!

Announcing: the Bridges Project brought to you by the Western Society for French History! Connect with "alt-ac" history PhDs! Learn how to support grad students on non-TT paths! Find out how other unis successfully support doctoral students! And more! A must-read for faculty www.wsfh.org/bridges

Texas OB-Gyns Release Letter After News of the Deaths of Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain as a Result of Texas Abortion Ban #WeWontGoBack

Phonebanking right now and heartened by all the folks on this zoom training from across the country helping my home NC county GOTV. 🥹

A Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage Josseli is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

On archives and slavery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every day I check on @archive.org to see how it's doing. It's been strange, upsetting to lose it for so long. I can feel its loss whenever I think of following an idea. So much of what makes me think, I find in it's library. For me, outside paywalls and such privileged access, it is everything.

What? No. God, no.

There is no ethical use of generative AI.

Can it code as well as a human? Well, no. But can it increase implementation speed? Also no. But does it reduce overtime? Not as much as NOT using it does. But does it write less buggy code? Quite the opposite, actually! But does it save money? In the long run, almost certainly not. But is it more e

"It’s conspicuous, then, that the present anti-feminist backlash coincides with calls to abandon the technological tools that freed women’s hands and schedules." www.momleft.com/p/return-dow...

I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.

Best source for updates out of western North Carolina I've found yet.

It is not good in Asheville & western NC right now. There’s no power and no water and all roads out are blocked. There is an extensive list of places to donate to here: www.wfmynews2.com/article/weat... thank you all

We absolutely should not be subject to any system that makes us powerless to save a life and empowers politicians to take life away as they please.

I’ve logged back in to post Marcellus Williams poems. You can read a few here.

If you're looking for a good place to donate, the Give Smart drive to boost North Carolina Democrats' standing in the state legislature is it: app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

Look at what arrived in the mail today! Get your own copy with a 30% discount when using the code 09BCARD on @cornellupress.bsky.social website. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

My department at Davidson College is hiring! Please help us spread the word. We welcome applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in early American history and/or that of the British Atlantic World from the 16th through 18th centuries Review of applications begins Sept. 15, 2024. 🗃

Vanity Fair: “In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Pretty map by statistician Jacques Bertillon plotting out the movement of books in municipal libraries of Paris for the year 1888. Readers could borrow books for free or read them on site. The vast majority chose to take books home. And the most popular genre? Novels of course! (Source: Gallica) 🗃️

New job: Assistant Professor of History Davidson College www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.p...

My (extremely functional) department is hiring! The Film, Media, and Digital Studies department at Davidson is hiring a tenure track film & media production practitioner/scholar/professor! Deets: fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PSA: Newest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style has axed place of publication as a requirement for notes. 🤯 Found this out after drafting my entire book manuscript. Silver lining—automatic word count cut. Hooray!

My department at Davidson College is hiring! Please help us spread the word. We welcome applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in early American history and/or that of the British Atlantic World from the 16th through 18th centuries Review of applications begins Sept. 15, 2024. 🗃

I’m glad to see universities and other institutions leave X, as it is full of (and seemingly actively encourages) disinformation, bad-faith actors, and right-wing and fascist propaganda. It is high time for my employer @unistavanger.bsky.social to do the same. CC @mohnitor.bsky.social

Time to officially introduce myself here to #Skystorians of #France and #Francophone worlds! lsupress.org/noire-race-a... with @alisaplant.bsky.social !

Read our Call for Papers (in English et en français) - The portal for submission of proposals will open on August 19, 2024 societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

NBC ran commercials during almost the entire "Sororité" portion of the Opening Ceremony. Here are the women NBC didn't show you. 1/2

Natalie Zemon Davis’s work was formative for me, probably the first French history I ever read. And this obituary is worth a read.

🚨Job alert! 🚨 My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mod Russian/Soviet history, emphasis in Jewish History & E.Europe, incl Ukraine, a joint position with Russian Studies at Davidson College. Send queries my way, dear skystorians! 🗃️ employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/49...

🚨Job alert! 🚨 My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mod Russian/Soviet history, emphasis in Jewish History & E.Europe, incl Ukraine, a joint position with Russian Studies at Davidson College. Send queries my way, dear skystorians! 🗃️ employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/49...