I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...

My article was selected for Magna Publications "The Best of the 2025 Teaching Professors Conference." It's called "The DEI Debacle: How University Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes" Check it out! s30383.pcdn.co/wp-content/u...

And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

🥳 Look what came in the mail! My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi... Stay tuned for launch events!

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

I know we’re all (justifiably) laughing at the French for having Louvre as the Louvre’s security system, but every time some piece of national heritage is damaged or destroyed (or stolen) in France - be it a fire at Notre Dame or a leak in the Louvre ceiling or a heist of national jewels-

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Burgerville is the latest Pacific Northwest restaurant to announce free food for those reeling from the loss of federal food stamp benefits. https://www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/11/kids-can-show-a-snap-card-to-get-a-free-hamburger-at-this-pacific-northwest-chain.html 

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Help! Teaching an Intro to the Middle East in spring and looking for a short reading to assign that covers the rise/politics/context of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia in 21st century?

Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess! Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process. Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.

Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself) CFP and submission guidelines can be found here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Each year I update this table which surveys scholars programs at the top 10 colleges and unis. Were schools that cared so much about DEI in 2020 still committed 5 years later? Here's what I found:

Gonna be on @democracynow.org this morning (8 est)

The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum posted a graphic emphasizing that "never again" means everyone. Genocide defenders erupted and demanded that the Museum remove it and apologize. Within hours, the museum complied. Dark times. Link: www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

'In an era when AI delivers the answer before the question is even asked, the sanctity of wonder is slipping away, and soon the act of asking might vanish entirely.' africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Have spent this morning reading @johnsiblon25.bsky.social's wonderful thesis: 'War memory and the construction of hierarchy: representations of African and Caribbean colonial service personnel in the aftermath of the FWW'. It's fascinating and opens for interesting comparisons with other empires.

Surprising no one. Confirming everyone's worst fears.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

📢 An Invitation: Black History at the Vassall Estate Virtual Presentation Thurs, Sept 25, 6–7pm ET. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ft @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social, me, and a village of researchers & descendant community members who contributed to our forthcoming 200+ page report!

The University of Oregon retreats from its threat to fire 20-30 tenured and tenure-track faculty. However, there will still be layoffs, unfortunately. lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/univer...

Shame on the AHA for posting this position

I can’t wait to see this exhibit

New from me: On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va. Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Amazing

Another facet of academic life collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions (labor shortage + the relentless pressure to publish for the job market) as well as the destructive impact of AI. It was time to rethink all of this ten years ago; second best time is now.

FYI, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, #FrenchHistory, & @cornellupress.bsky.social book fans: The superb cover for Susannah Wilson's "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, & Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" is here! Intrigued? FYI2: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

My book is available for pre-order from @nupress.bsky.social. 25% discount with code NUP2025 at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884... Only a few more weeks until it comes out!

Dragan Savić, Yugoslav caricaturist and illustrator, traveled to Algeria in 1961, where the National Liberation Front (FLN) commissioned him to create a series of drawings documenting the Algerian struggle for independence.

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

So excited to welcome @ranitaray1.bsky.social to @cunygcsociology.bsky.social for our first colloquium of the year on September 19th: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/slow-...

It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...

🚨After the archives… the contract! I am delighted to report that my book project - on antiracist Jewish writers, Hollywood, and the blacklist - is now under contract with everyone’s favorite #SkyEditor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social at @sunypress.bsky.social! Hope to have it to y’all in 2028!🤞🎬🗃️

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Time for those who dismissed scholars who raised the alarm to speak out www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Does anyone have a copy of the table of contents for Oleg Grabar, Penser l'art islamique that they could send me? Thanks!

Does anyone have a copy of the table of contents for Oleg Grabar, Penser l'art islamique that they could send me? Thanks!

And today the African Association has been closed and the building, seized. A sad day.

It's awful that this doesn't get more media coverage, that so little is being done to get justice for these indigenous women and their loved ones. Thanks @hollyguise.bsky.social for posting this article. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

For anyone who wants to support an amazing, little, independent, women-owned bookstore that is a beacon of light deep in the heart of TX, please consider giving to their campaign here: givebutter.com/LarkandOwl (or supporting them through Libro or bookshop.org).

Congratulations to @skmiles.bsky.social for being awarded the Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award! Such a well-deserved honor!

Canary Mission, StopAntisemitism, Betar, etc.: are you listening? I have some classic wealthy-Jew-as-manipulator kind of antisemitism to report coming straight from the top.