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Historian of religion & race, archives, media/tech/comm, politics of education. Always asking: whose stories are told & who gets to tell them? History Prof & Dir. of Religious Studies @ U of Minnesota. Au: Christian Slavery (2018). www.katharinegerbner.com
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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

submitted 28 days ago • 605 comments

We are excited to announce our 2025 Roetzel Family Lecture! See the following poster for more details

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Though I hear people say they may be over them, might be a good day to share 2 Starter Packs for #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas! 1/ go.bsky.app/RDvzxbj

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

submitted 90 days ago • 6 comments

I just made an end-of-year donation to Free Press, a leading media reform organization at the forefront of critically important policy battles, from revitalizing public service journalism to defending a democratic internet. Their invaluable advocacy will be even more essential in the years ahead.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for highlighting this! The backstory: during my research for Christian Slavery (2018), I noticed that every time there was an enslaved uprising in early America or the Caribbean, there was an immediate backlash against Black religious gatherings-whether Christian, Muslim, or African religions

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Highly recommend reading through this entire thread.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I'm teaching "Theory and Method in Religious Studies" for the first time next semester. For those who have taught a version of this course before, curious to hear: what readings would you recommend? What worked well? #ReligiousStudies #StudyOfReligion #Amrel

submitted 81 days ago • 23 comments

If you work on the African diaspora, migration, transnationalism, racialisation and the experience of Black people and people of African descent, consider submitting your research for publication in our journal. #africandiaspora #transnationalism Submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rab...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Picking up on @lollardfish.bsky.social's points about the promotion of new books on social media, here is a 🧵 of some advice that has worked for me: Start early: Don't wait for your book to appear to begin promotion. It should start months in advance. Cultivate your audience with teasers.

submitted 99 days ago • 13 comments

This is such a generous thing to have done for the early modern scholarly community. Wow!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Sharing this again now that I know how feeds work. But my department is hiring a tenure track #PublicHistory position with a preference for someone who specialized in US Indigenous or Latine history. 🗃️ Happy to answer any questions. Please share widely! www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments