Starting today!

The syllabi are ready for the fall term: Introduction into the history of state socialist Eastern Europe: A global perspective (BA) Advocating for women behind the Iron Curtain: Eastern European women's voices (MA) I can't wait to meet the students again. 🗃🌈

We received many excellent proposals in response to the call for papers for the upcoming conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary." The organizing committee will begin reviewing applications soon. 🗃 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

On my way to Berlin to EAHMH 2025 - I will be presenting at a medical history conference for the first time. (Gendered Mobilities? Hungarian Women Health Care Professionals and the Circulation of Socialist Medical Knowledge) eahmh25.org

The #ZARAH project's collective monograph, "Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond. A new transnational history" is out with UCL Press. Congrats to the authors! 🗃🗃📚 uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Funny how academia works: nothing for ages, then boom, 2 articles in a week. The 2nd began with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social email. Not my usual period but those intriguing AAN files kept calling… Of course, Jewish threads are in: I wouldn’t be me otherwise 😉. doi.org/10.1177/0888...

The last lines in the cv of a HU critical care nurse, 1982: "Ever since I started working...I was always hired on a contract, my superiors...while greatly appreciating my performance on the job...remain unable to hire me permanently...most probably for economic reasons."

Teaching my Other Europes course again this fall & in response to student interest am expanding focus on queer & trans history & on disability history. Historian friends, any recs for favorite articles/book chapters &/or primary sources that work well w/ undergrads? 19th-20th c. focus. Thanks! 🗃️

It’s real!

Vacation, finally!

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

Happy to see this volume on family, human rights, and internationalism out, edited by Julia Moses, and with my chapter on disability policies (providing a historical background for UNCRPD article 12) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Would appreciate any shares, friends! Not sure where ppl go to to ask for recs rn Anyone know of a racial history of amateurism in international sport? Ie pre-WWII? (Will take case studies, but looking for an overarching history to avoid getting lost in details if poss) 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Our library was super fast with the acquisition - Bad Lieutenants by Andrew Mertha is on my desk finally! 🗃🗃📚

Spread the word, submit an abstract for our conference on Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary to be held in Bielefeld on Nov, 14-15, 2025, with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Wrapping up the preparations for the last classes of the term - on homonationalism (class on nationalism theories) and some aspects of postwar masculinities (class on Communism and gender). I taught many texts for the first time. It was an exhausting but very rewarding experience. 🗃🗃🌈

Our new volume 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956', co-edited with Daniel Frost, is now available for pre-order from @manchesterup.bsky.social. Hardback is out Nov 2025, with a paperback edition to follow in 2026-27. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Strawberry mousse cake - first attempt, I am pretty satisfied with the result!

fast 40 grad in ungekühlten räumen, marode gebäude, abgehängte kinder, überforderte eltern, ausgebrannte lehrkräfte, lehrermangel, schlechte pisa ergebnisse, immer selbstbewusstere forderungen rechter in bezug auf schule, klaffende schere sozialer ungerechtigkeit JETZT ERST MAL EIN GENDERVERBOT

It's publication day: Socialist Medical Mobilities from the Global East: Hungarian Women's Access and Experiences is out! 🗃🗃📚 If anyone's interested, please reach out via dm. I can share a link to a PDF (up to 50 free copies).

Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2] muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

Proofs! My article article about women's participation in early socialist medical mobilities will be out soon as part of a special issue in The Global Sixties Journal. 📚🗃🗃

Here at LMU Munich they are advertising two posts, a tenure track professorship and a full professorship for North American Cultural Studies. Get in touch with me if you want to see the ads!

Public holiday - time for slow cooking, strawberry picking, and later on - baking!

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am currently looking for a (remote) research assistant for about 60 h. of work in total (literature research, fact-checking, and data analysis—Excel skills required). A background in 20th-century international history, technology, and transport would be ideal. Please share with interested people!

I am curious to learn what students think of the arguments made in Represented Communities (class: Nationalism Theories and Their Discontents). It is such a brilliant book. 🗃🗃📚

Getting to the final stages of finishing the first draft of a grant proposal - the idea emerged in the past 2 years, and now is laid out on 16 pages, the clearest evidence of my intellectual journey since the PhD. Once I'm done, I'll take time to feel happy about the decisions that led me here. 🗃🗃📚

It's finally here! 🗃🗃📚 "as long as we continue to view Asia as a passive recipient of the global confrontation, we will continue to accept this American-centric (or Western-centric) perspective."

Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...

Working on an article after receiving the copyedited version. The editor did such a great job, I am really lucky that my paper landed on their desk. 📚🗃

CFA: fellowships of 6-12 months at global dis:connect Munich 2026-7. Centre explores inter- and disconnectedness, entanglements&disentanglements in historical&contemporary globalisation(s). For Humanities&Soc.Sciences, esp. history&theatre studies&art history www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

In my Gender and Communism class, we had a session on non-heteronormative life worlds today. We looked at East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and China specifically. The discussion went really great! 🗃🗃🌈

Back to reading for the grant proposal 📚🗃🗃

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

Hello, world! Nations and Nationalism is now on BlueSky! We'll be sharing abstracts from the journal on here and occasional events. Talking of which, the annual N&N debate is on Wednesday on 4th June at LSE or online on Aram Hur’s Narratives of Civic Duty - details at asen.ac.uk/event/hur

I am struggling with my own writing, so decided to procrastinate by writing a peer review. Instead of giving myself a hard time about it, I decided that this is just part of academic adulthood. (right??) 🗃

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Setting up my courses for the next term. I'd say I'm excited! 🗃🗃🌈

We were so happy to be part of this Special Issue on anti-imperial Epistemic Justice edited by Sumi Madhok. Olga Mun and I contributed a paper on Central Asian knowledge production. take a look journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJW/curr...

Very shy to share this new text of mine. Here’s a very personal essay about being an independent scholar, my method, about immigration, cracks in academia and fragments. I don’t know if people even read this kind of stuff anymore but if you do, enjoy. aseees.org/newsnet-arti...

Just another Thursday afternoon 🗃🗃📚

We had a midterm discussion session at my Communism and Gender class, where students explained key concepts to each other as part of a group work exercise. I was so impressed by them, especially the concept map and discussion of the triple burden that one group prepared. Peak teaching moments.🗃🗃🌈

Our next webinar will focus on Indigenous liberation struggles in North Caucasus, Central and North Asia, with leading Indigenous scholars and decolonial activists Seseg Jigjitova, Madina Tlostanova and Lidia Zhigunova. Register for this crucial discussion: ruta-association.org/event/indige...

New call for Simone Veil #Fellowships @ Project House Europe (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social)! Join us next academic year if you are working on 20-21st century #europeanhistory! ➡️ more info: www.phe.uni-muenchen.de/fellowship/a...

The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dominique Kirchner Reill as its next Director. Her term will officially begin on July 1, 2025. Read more... www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

After months of preparations, it is finally happening, I could get started on writing a new grant application in earnest. Not a bad note to end the week on.

I am happy to have received my author copies from the Journal of World History: my article on women travel writers from state socialist Hungary who visited/lived in various African countries is finally out! 🗃🗃📚

*Puts on reviews editor hat* Would you like to write a review article for the Journal of Contemporary History? Three books, about 4000 words, on history after 1930? Let me know! You'll find my contact details at mau.se/en/persons/e...