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Coming Fall 2025 from @fordhampress.bsky.social Co-edited with the amazing @clukasik.bsky.social. It’s also lovely to see another one of my photos grace the cover of a FUP book. 🎉

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Meet the mentors for the upcoming 2025-2027 Young Scholars in American Religion Cohort! We are honored and so excited to have Dr. TIsa Wenger and Dr. Gerardo Martí with us and the upcoming cohort! Learn more: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you... @gerardomarti.bsky.social @tisawenger.bsky.social

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Finally got an advance reader copy. It is almost a book!

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🔔 #theologyjob Assistant Professor Theology & Religious Studies (salary: $76 to $80k) at Molloy University workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... #theology #theologie #systematictheology #dogmatics #dogmatik #systematischetheologie #oldtestament #newtestament #BibleStudy #ichbinhanna #Biblicalstudies

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Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

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Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline. librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...

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Hi there! We are the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Our members promote research in the history of the book including manuscript culture, print, digital technologies + beyond. Follow to connect with bookish scholarship from around the world + across time periods.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professor in Byzantine History The Oxford Faculty of History and Corpus Christi College seek a highly motivated, inspirational person to join their thriving academic community and bring exciting perspectives to the teaching and study of Byzantine History at Oxford.

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The ASCH forum on Heathen, from the Jan 2024 conference, is live on Church History. Open access! @kecarte.bsky.social’s intro: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh’s response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @mbaysa.bsky.social’s response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Couldn't be more excited to be hosting THE SCOPES TRIAL AT 100: SECULARISM, RACE, AND EDUCATION at Penn on March 20-21! When we first planned this last year, the idea that the Scopes Trial was linked contemporary politics and culture seemed plausible enough. Now it's overwhelmingly clear.

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🗃️Our @susih.bsky.social annual meeting is in historic Detroit! CFP due 5/1, please apply + share #USIH #skystorians @paulvmurphy.bsky.social @c-i-hawkey.bsky.social s-usih.org/2025/02/s-us...

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We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!

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🗃️Delighted to share this terrific @susih.bsky.social CFP for our annual meeting! Join us in Detroit to explore themes of “Creativity & Renewal,” due 5/1. Please share far & wide! HUGE thanks to excellent #USIH2025 co-chairs Chloe Hawkey, Paul Murphy, & Greg Sumner 🙌 #USIH s-usih.org/2025/02/s-us...

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As we continue to highlight our Black History Month Special Issue articles, check out an upcoming Religion & episode ft. @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social, Religion & The Madhouse, where we will dive into Weisenfeld's forthcoming book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake.

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Amid all the handwringing over voters of color supporting Trump, I explain why "demographic destiny"--the idea that more nonwhite voters ensured Democratic dominance--was always flawed. My piece in today's Time Magazine "Made by History" column. time.com/7207388/lati...

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We have two exciting (hybrid) events coming up next week! Please join us!

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The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...

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My department is hiring TWO assistant teaching professors of media studies! This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate teachers eager to explore new approaches to cultivating media literacy among diverse students. Learn more & apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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BTV friends: come on down!

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Grant opportunity for #earlymodern scholars! 🗃️

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Next year I am on sabbatical, and we are searching for a 1 year VAP replacement in Judaism at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

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The Brooklyn Newsstand is so good and free. Thanks to everyone at the Center for Brooklyn History for making it available.

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Read Crossroads Project Graduate Fellow Kim Akano's article about her work mapping Horace Mann Bond's collection of information about African students in HBCUs. The project is related to her dissertation on "the religious, racial, and political formation of African students in the US" in the 20thC.

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Recent book haul #amreading

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And Humans and Shackles along with his cousin Plantations Goods by @sethrockman.bsky.social both at the @historians.org #aha25 #aha2025 @uchicagopress.bsky.social booth, exhibition hall very crowded yesterday! #slavryarchive

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#AHA25

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Happy New Year!

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Come work with me at Tufts! We have an exciting new project at the Center for the Humanities!

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Job Opportunity ! This two-year postdoctoral position is open to early career scholars (no more than five years from the PhD) and independent scholars who work on any region of the globe between c.1250 and c.1750. careers.historians.org/jobs/2086202...

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SO VERY EXCITED to share this NEH Summer Institute website on Jewish print culture!! #nehgrant @nehgov.bsky.social @barbaramann.bsky.social #bookhistory 📜 artsci.case.edu/neh/

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Do you study religion, gender and/or sexuality? Consider applying to this amazing program. Deadline is Dec 16, 2024. If you can’t do this one, there will be 3 MORE this year! Sacred Writes is open to all religion scholars regardless of citizenship. www.sacred-writes.org/apply?fbclid...

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Postdoc in Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social for "recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline" with "interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion." puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Patiently waiting for #caturday lunch #catsofbluesky

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My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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“Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” is available for preorder @nyupress.bsky.social, now with endorsements from Paul Sedra, Zainab Saleh, and Valentina Napolitano. ✨ nyupress.org/9781479833221/…

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If you missed our two sessions on fantastic Crossroads Fellows' projects, you can view the recordings.

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Tell a Friend: Graduate Research Fellowship in Mormon Studies open.substack.com/pub/usreligi...

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Check out @wmstell.bsky.social's essay among the 10 most-read essays of the year on the Immanent Frame.

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I'm so grateful for colleagues who send me a note or message that something I published was helpful for their own work - it truly makes my week!

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Are you a PhD student working on a dissertation that somehow deals with Mormonism? You should apply for the University of Utah's phenomenal graduate fellowship. They have a great record of helping a long line of stellar scholars. mormon.utah.edu/graduate-res...

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Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion (CSR) is searching for a College Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought (one-year postdoctoral position w/possibility of renewal for a second year; app due Jan 31, 2025) - please help us spread the word! facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/resource/col...

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Public service announcement: if you're a historian attending #AHA25 in New York next month and you hope to meet with an editor attending on behalf of a publishing house, don't wait beyond this week to reach out. Particularly for university press editors, this is a super busy time. Plan ahead!

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My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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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

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Keeping warm on this chilly December day #caturday #catsofbluesky

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Just finished setting up new bookshelves in the office. I’ll take it as a sign to get more books now that I have room for them

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Monday 12/9 is the deadline to submit a proposal for the last round of funding under our Henry Luce Foundation grant. You can see the amazing projects our Crossroads Fellows have produced so far on SPIRIT HOUSE: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org

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