Was lovely to see everyone, including Prof @maggieoneill.bsky.social (ISS21) & ISS21 GSF cluster directors Dr @gemakloppe.bsky.social & Dr Fiachra Ó Suilleabháin

👋 Colleagues and friends: help me spread the word! Our MA in Sociology at @ucc.ie is still open for applications from EU applicants With cutting-edge modules including violence & conflict, populism & the far-right, feminist epistemologies, and more Come join us! www.ucc.ie/en/cke55/

Exciting news article “Grammar of Threat” with co-author extraordinaire @phillegitimate.bsky.social just won the 2025 Lee Ann Fujii Best Article Award from @apsa.bsky.social ’s Interpretive Methods group! 🎉

American Historical Review just published my new book review of Kelly Lytle Hernández's book, Bad Mexicans. Below is the official link. If you would like a PDF, please let me know. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of our arrival in Ireland 💚 I am incredibly thankful to my new institutional home @ucc.ie and to the wonderful colleagues across the university for making me feel welcomed. I have found a new place to thrive.

Nuevo libro por Tania Hernández Vicencio y Marisol Lopez-Menendez:

Check out this new interview with Dr. @gemakloppe.bsky.social about the rise of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/nayib-bukele...

Excited to share I have accepted the invitation to join the Advisory Board of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos @ucpress.bsky.social, an internationally recognized scholarly journal (bilingual and interdisciplinary) dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and research relating to Mexico🇲🇽✍️📚

Great piece by @profmpastor.bsky.social, reporting from L.A.: "The attack on immigrants now is a dry run for the strongman tactics that will later be used on us all. And finding a path of resistance that is fierce but not reckless, mass but not middling, strong but not violent will be a challenge."

I had the great privilege of speaking with Martin Di Caro (History As It Happens) about the meteoric rise to power of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador and about the country's descent into authoritarianism 🇸🇻 Give it a listen and share if you can🎧 historyasithappens.libsyn.com/nayib-bukele...

Delighted to be in London as part of my @britishacademy.bsky.social Visiting Fellowship at @ucl.ac.uk Check out info below for my talk on The Politics of Religious Violence in Cold War Mexico & Colombia at @uclamericas.bsky.social this Thursday, 5:30pm (hybrid) www.history.ac.uk/events/sacre...

Can expectations of accountability in cases of human rights violations falter? In this piece, @jorgepeniche.bsky.social argues that they can — and indeed, they do — in certain gray zones. opiniojuris.org/2025/05/26/f...

⭐️1 more week to book⭐️ 🔶How do Latin American Studies fit within broader Area Studies frameworks? 🔶Is Latin America still a coherent and relevant category of analysis? 🔶What role should European institutions and journals like JLAS play in shaping the future of the field?

📚 Sacred Wars? Religion, Violence & Cold War Politics 🔥✝️ Join us for a seminar on the entanglement of religion, ideology, and violence in Cold War-era Mexico and Colombia. 📍 Hybrid 📅 12 June 2025 | 5:30–7:00PM 🎙️ Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (UCC & UCL History) Free & open to all: shorturl.at/WwPCk

This is next week Sacred Wars? The Politics of Religious Violence in Cold War Mexico and Colombia I am delighted to be giving this talk at @uclamericas.bsky.social as part of my @britishacademy.bsky.social Visiting Fellowship at @uclhistory.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/sacre... Join us!

Join @NACLA for the launch of the new print issue on Central America: "NACLA Report: Isthmian Saberes: Embodied Knowledge and Archival Praxis in América Central"! Wed Jun 4 at 5:30 EST, co-sponsored by @SALALM🔥 register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Earlier this month I had the chance to tour the shelter Mexico built in Ciudad Juárez to receive migrants deported by Trump as part of the 'Mexico embraces you' program. The shelter can serve 2,500 people per day, but as of last week they have received 2,800 migrants since Feb. My story:

Delighted to have a piece in The Conversation today. Can centring lived experience in activism weaken collective action? And why is the far right starting to use this language too? theconversation.com/lived-experi... #activism #livedexperience @theconversation.com

#LSA2025 #GenderandJustice is a New interdisciplinary & feminist social science journal. Does your research focus on: ✅ Gender ✅ Inequality ✅Justice Consider sending your work to us. Details 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

This looks really interesting -- a great line up, and I really like the format. Register to watch online this evening from 18.30. #socialtheory

Our MA in Sociology at @ucc.ie is still open for applications! With new & cutting-edge modules including violence & conflict, populism & the far-right, feminist epistemologies and more Non-EU applicants: deadline is June 15th EU applicants: deadline is in August www.ucc.ie/en/cke55/

Femicides continue to impact Mexico, a country where gendered patterns of violence intersect with organized crime & militarized responses to crime I spoke to @news.dw.com & @reuters.com about this difficult reality in the context of the murder of Valeria Márquez in Zapopan, Jalisco last week