At the @officialbaas.bsky.social Conference in Glasgow, you can sign up to a one-on-one chat with top academic editors to discuss your ideas for articles and monographs! We've got editors from @edinburghup.bsky.social, @manchesterup.bsky.social and the Journal of American Studies!

New Episode Alert! Today, we are Finding Jane Austen in her earliest writings and exploring her fascination with mystery, theft, and murder! We also listen along as Austen reads the popular, and not always age-appropriate, works of her day. Listen now on your favorite podcast app.

📚Call out for panellists for book talk at @officialbaas.bsky.social!📚 We are delighted to partner with @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social to gather Americanists from all areas to discuss how thinking about America's founding influences our research and teaching. We're looking for 3-5 contributors!

‼️ BAAS and the Journal of American Studies are pleased to announce that they will be recruiting for the following roles at JAS in Summer 2026, for start dates of 2 January 2027. Learn more about the roles here:

Lots of fun giving a lecture on the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement for AIM High A Level students this morning alongside some cool historians @emilybrady.bsky.social @davidolusoga.bsky.social

New Episode Alert! There was almost a world in which there was no Jane Austen. Or at the very least, no Jane Austen novels. No Pride and Prejudice. No Sense and Sensibility. In today’s episode, we explore Jane’s brush with death and the unusual cast of women who shaped her literary interests.

Never hurts for BrANCH historians to peer over the borders of the long 19th Century… And it looks like the IHR North American History seminar has an interesting talk this Thursday, with @emilybrady.bsky.social discussing “Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s”

It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

🔔 We have extended the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding until Friday 28th November. What's TRP funding? Each conference, we award up to £5000 funding for panels which aim to support & promote the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities & disability communities.

I am heartbroken and horrified that the department where I received my PhD is under threat of closure. This is a dynamic and welcoming community that is at the forefront of American Studies in the UK. I encourage everyone to sign the below petition and rally behind our colleagues in Nottingham.

📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉 Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November. buff.ly/xAdQJB8

The CFP for the @officialbaas.bsky.social Annual Conference is now live! Join us at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in April 2026 to mark the 250-year anniversary of 1776, with amazing keynote speakers already lined up! Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025 baas.ac.uk/conferences/...

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

This week I start a new job as a two-year Departmental Lecturer in American History! I'll continue to be based at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social and be starting at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social. Excited to get back into the classroom after three years of research!

📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America. The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025. Proposals are invited before 22 August.

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Happy publication day! Out now with @faberbooks.bsky.social

SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️! Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸! This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜

Calling all UK-based PGRs/ECRs 📣 Are you planning your next conference visit or research trip stateside? Apply for one of our Peter Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards your trip! Our next round closes in TWO WEEKS on July 1st - don't miss out!

Watch out who you invite inside...our episode on SINNERS is out now! Dr Tammy Kernodle joins to unpack all the history — but especially the music! — behind the latest historical blockbuster to take cinemas by storm 🎵🧛‍♂️ Available wherever fine podcasts are found! open.spotify.com/episode/7pJ6...

The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) invites applications for PGR & ECR Travel Grants of up to £1000 to fund travel to the US for conferences, to conduct remote/archival research into 19thC US history, & more... Deadline: 1st July.

Lecturer (Education) in Modern US History Queen's University Belfast #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI397/l...

Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries

The Not In Our Name letter for cis women opposed to transphobia has now exceeded 20,000

After 175 yrs, Harvard is releasing the images of Renty & Delia — Tamara Lanier’s enslaved ancestors. Their dignity will be honored at the Int’l African American Museum in Charleston (SC). This is a powerful step toward truth & reclaiming Black humanity! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Excited to see my article published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social has been shortlisted alongside some amazing scholarship!

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - [email protected] - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

🚨HOTCUS Committee Elections!🚨 It's that time of the year, when the HOTCUS Committee step down and we invite members to nominate themselves for one of the positions.The deadline for nominations is Friday May 23rd at 17:00 (BST), and all the information is on the website. hotcus.org.uk/about-hotcus...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Absolutely delighted to have signed a book contract for my first monograph with @uncpress.bsky.social! Let the World See What I See: Black Women Photographers from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Power will be out in 2026-2027! Many thanks to my amazing editor Andreina Fernandez!

👏 Congratulations to Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social for being elected as the new Chair of @officialbaas.bsky.social. 'I will be using my tenure to ensure we make American Studies in Britain as joyous an undertaking as it can be,' said Dr Collins 🎉 🔗 Read more 👇

Come along to the @officialbaas.bsky.social Book Raffle at 11:30am in the Forum Lecture Theatre, generously sponsored with donated books by @mngupbooks.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social!

This compelling work of scholarship radically reshapes our understanding of one of the longest and most damaging conflicts in modern American history 📚 buff.ly/nWliJzo Browse our virtual exhibit: buff.ly/8qOHzYP @officialbaas.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

Attending #BAAS2025 today? Don't forget to, ✅ Schedule a chat with @mlhouston.bsky.social about your book idea 📚 Enjoy 30% off selected #AmericanStudies titles 💻 Explore our digital collections 📖 Browse our online reading list: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

BAAS Conference is underway! Don't forget you can sign up to a ten-minute chat with editors from the University of Manchester and the Journal of American Studies! @officialbaas.bsky.social

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on the For Women Scotland case is a disgraceful attack on trans rights. In a process that excluded trans voices and centred anti-trans groups, this is not justice — it’s erasure. We will never stop fighting for our trans community 🏳️‍⚧️

I visited office hours with the Journal of American Studies at a BAAS conference *cough* some *cough* years ago and it was incredibly helpful at helping me develop my first article! Sign up to a 10-minute slot at @officialbaas.bsky.social next week with JAS and University of Manchester Press!

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have signed a contract with CUP for my book, provisionally titled 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum South', which will hopefully be out next year!

Events 2026 Call for hosts!🚨 HOTCUS is seeking hosts for our 2026 events, including the Winter Symposium (February) and the Annual Conference (June). We can only run our events with member support and input, so please do consider if this is something that you can support at your institution!

🚨 Today is the final day to receive Early Bird registration for our 2025 conference 🚨 If already know you are joining us in Hatfield in April, make sure to complete your registration today 🐣 buff.ly/s6NASzP

I was lucky enough to have this role at the @raioxford.bsky.social - a wonderful job and community! Cannot recommend enough!

Gatsby? What Gatsby? Why the GREAT Gatsby of course — this week @emilybrady.bsky.social joins to talk Baz Luhrmann's 2013 adaptation of the classic novel in all of its maximalist, blockbuster, and 2010s glory ✨🍾🟢 Available now wherever you listen to podcasts, or at the link here bit.ly/41vWZxzThe

My review of Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams by @uscpress.bsky.social is out now on @hisjournalha.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

I'm a cultural and art historian of the Americas at the @raioxford.bsky.social, researching how women photographers use photography in activist movements! I am writing an article on Gaynella Greenlee and Jennie Louise Touissant Welcome - 2 photographers who were part of James VanDerZee's family!

A very good postdoc at the University of Edinburgh: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Calling all PGRs and ECAs! Do you have an idea for an article or a book review? We’re looking for fresh content for our website and would love to hear from you. Get in touch at [email protected]! @officialbaas.bsky.social