Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

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...

And Chris Suh's (@chrissuh.bsky.social) article "Diasporic Politics in the Age of Decolonization: Korean Independence and the US Military Occupation of Korea, 1945–1948" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

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Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

My new school year begins with the publication of Yumi Moon's edited volume, Cold War Refugees! Huge congratulations to Yumi, whose pathbreaking scholarship forever shaped the way I think about the intersections of Asian history and US history! 🎉🎉🎉 @stanfordpress.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

My fellow sickos of Bluesky: Who's ready for preseason football?

He did! youtu.be/L3oAU-LBO40?...

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

It's me, it's me, it's me... 😊

more of a comment than a question is the unsolicited dick pic of academia

posting our @terpsicoreans.bsky.social translation of Kim Eon Hee's poem for no reason what so ever www.2009-2019.poetryproject.org/from-have-yo...

Tomorrow at 4pm EST! @wilsoncenter.org, @koreacenter.bsky.social, @historians.org, @chrissuh.bsky.social

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Huge congratulations to my friend @tsasson.bsky.social on the #AHA25 roundtable on her field-changing book, The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (2024)! Great to see your book get the recognition it deserves 😀 @historians.org @princetonupress.bsky.social

Exited to see @loriflores.bsky.social at #aha25 with her brand-new book, Awaiting Their Feast. Congratulations! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

was just told that i'm the "Spiders Georg" of academia. looked it up and sounds about right.

cat butler union, national black cat federation, tuxedo cat lovers

Presenting Irene’s staff pick of 2024: Christopher T. Fan's review of Netflix's "3 Body Problem." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

“Why do the winds calling for impeachment only blow in the winter?” “Because at its end has to be spring.”

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

Emory History Chair Yanna Yannakakis has won two prestigious awards for "Since Time Immemorial," her latest book which traces how Indigenous leaders in Colonial Mexico helped develop a legal category that impacts contemporary Latin America: bit.ly/48XfCMS

Hello to everyone interested in learning more during Native American heritage month! please give this a listen! I talk about Alaska Native wartime history, Native women’s activism, Native people in the service during WWII Alaska, and Native movements

Apple says that I am my cat's best friend. My cat disagrees. 😂

Best news!!!!! 😀

My book has a webpage! _The Solidarity Economy_ is forthcoming with Princeton UP in April 2024. shorturl.at/qxFJ8

Fasten your seatbelts -- coming to a bookstore near you in April 2024! I had the privilege to read this manuscript in advance and I assure you that this book is smashing!

I'm honored that my book, The Allure of Empire, made it to @nplusonemag.bsky.social's list of recommended titles for this year's Bookmatch! Please consider donating to the Bookmatch fundraiser. You'll receive a personalized list of books!! secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

My Emory colleague @miriamudel.bsky.social wrote this moving Op-Ed. “Children’s books, which present subtle truths in simple terms, offer a valuable tool in retaining our moral bearings, especially amid a maelstrom of grief and rage.” www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/o...

In Perspectives on History, read a Long Overdue tribute to Yuji Ichioka, a founder of Asian American studies who died in 2002. 🗃️

My first BlueSky post in the genre of "Come be my colleague!" That extra comma is irksome--- it's "Black Gender and Sexuality Studies." https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37526602/black-gender-and-sexuality-studies-approaches-to-political-and-social-justice-movements/