Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social reviews Lydia Walker's @lydiawalker.bsky.social States in Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

A very happy 90th to Prof Rajmohan Gandhi!

All set up at #SHAFR2025. Stop by and say hello. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

🏆 We are pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker (@lydiawalker.bsky.social) and Dr Sandhya Fuchs. Read the full announcement and the winners’ profiles in our latest blogpost: royalasiaticsociety.org/the-james-j-...

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

From 8-14 June Pitt Rivers is hosting a Naga delegation for a visit focusing on the repatriation of Naga ancestral remains & exploring future care. The Museum holds the largest collection of Naga material in the world, much of which was collected by colonial administrators in the early 20th century.

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great program, timely and important topic - very glad I can attend.

Heading back home from a flying visit to Cambridge to comment on a chapter for @lydiawalker.bsky.social’s fascinating new book project on post-SWW interventions ☺️ Also managed to squeeze in a visit to the brilliant ‘Rise Up’ exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum - definitely worth a visit ✊🪧

Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

Only recently discovered that I needed this. How I wish John Prados was still with us. Will be writing about Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu, and the war declaration that didn't happen.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Delighted to announce the program of our Global History Colloquium @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, which I co-convene with Isabella Löhr and Sebastian Conrad this summer. All welcome.

8/ Viewpoint: "A revisionist history of the United Nations" by Alanna O’Malley (@unileiden.bsky.social) and @lydiawalker.bsky.social (@osuhistory.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...

A privilege to publicly engage w/such an important book. H-Diplo's Roundtable on @drmargottudor.bsky.social's Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: “particularly strong on the United Nations’ conceptions of territoriality and its relationships to time."

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

History job alert! Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at NYU. Looking for historians of war & the military, *broadly defined*, in *any* geographical area. 1/1, renewable up to 3 yrs, pay is much better than listed! I'm on the cmte, happy to answer Qs. Info: apply.interfolio.com/161728

📢 Exciting News! JGH is hosting a Development Editing Workshop. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond. mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

Researchers: NARA has digitized hundreds of thousands of operational reports from US units in the Pacific Theater of WWII, to include divisional reports with regimental reports, maps, and sketches. It’s a gold mine. Go nuts catalog.archives.gov/id/305275

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond. mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

The wonderful historian Lydia Walker (@lydiawalker.bsky.social), "What is decolonisation?" (@aeon.co; #skystorians, #history): aeon.co/essays/what-...

My book, States-in-Waiting, is out in the world. Available Open Access - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

My favourite archive in India, at NCBS in Bengaluru, is looking for a distinguished professor to work with their collections.

My PhD student Yusra Abdullahi on the relationship between what materials get archived, who gets access, and the construction of global orders.

The President of Indonesia went to the UK and met with Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street but only posted about meeting Larry the Cat.

I wrote an essay on decolonization talk for Aeon Magazine, sparked in part by the seemingly odd image search results for 'decolonization' when making posters for Ohio State's International History Seminar last year. @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/what-...

The editors support @sevead.bsky.social, whose work is being unfairly instrumentalized for political ends: tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv She is a historian not a state agent. Her pathbreaking scholarship underwent rigorous peer-review to be published in this very journal. #OA link: bit.ly/4i9J86r

What an excellent choice - in terms of scholarship, scholar, and understandings of inter/national in/security

We are hiring! Its an endowed professorship at the level of assistant or associate professor in one of the following areas: colonial America; early modern British; OR early modern Atlantic. Please spread the word. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

My state of waiting for this book is now over! Congratulations @lydiawalker.bsky.social

Here's something I've been working on. "Entwined Escalation: Total War and Colonial Violence," a chapter in what will be an amazing volume edited by Bruno Cabanes and Cam Givens papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Legal historians will find fascinating the methodological and historical discussion of the formation and power of “non-state archives.” Really captivating book. 👏 @lydiawalker.bsky.social www.amazon.com/States-Waiti...

Discover insights from the book, "States-in-Waiting," as our very own Lydia Walker shares her insights in a recent chat with The Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders at the University of Oxford. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/stat...

Join Prof. Lydia Walker as she unravels the "un-endings of decolonization"🌍in her debut monograph, 'States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization' on the New Books Network podcast. 📚 newbooksnetwork.com/states-in-wa...

Much appreciated. And very cool to hear my argument in someone else's words! States-in-Waiting is available Open Access through Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

My book, States-in-Waiting, is out in the world. Available Open Access - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

We, Fabian Klose, Angelika Nußberger, and Claus Kreß, are excited to announce the launch of the website of our newly founded Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL): chl.uni-koeln.de

Extended to March 9th!

Applications for the Non-State Archive close on February 28th. Learn more about the grants at mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive

Scholars/practitioners of activist + insurgent movements: Have you generated a collection that you want to be accessible to others longterm? The Non-State Archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @ohiostate.bsky.social provides $ to support organizing collections + accepts deposits. 28 Feb grant deadline.

More about the Non-State Archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social on the @ihr.bsky.social's 'On History' blog. The IHR hosted me as a @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social fellow in the before times, and it's great to 'return,' at least in pixels!

Carolien Stolte has launched a brilliant ERC+NWO funded cluster at Leiden on anti-war movements in war/postwar and decolonization chronologies across Asia and the African continent. Call for 4 funded PhD studentships. For those w/an MA looking for PhD programs, Caro is a wonderful mentor/advisor.

Congratulations to Robin Judd on winning 2 National Jewish Book Awards for "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust." "Between Two Worlds" won the JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Best Writing Based on Archival Material & won the Barbara Dobkin Award for Best Book in Women’s Studies.

This Vol - and the workshop that built it - was an absolute pleasure to participate in. It also signals the exciting directions CUP's Global and Int'l Hist series is taking, curating transnatl scholarship from a wide array of scholars (background, career stage, geographic location).

Scholars/practitioners of activist + insurgent movements: Have you generated a collection that you want to be accessible to others longterm? The Non-State Archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @ohiostate.bsky.social provides $ to support organizing collections + accepts deposits. 28 Feb grant deadline.