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Ashley Valanzola

@ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social
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Historian, Navy veteran, Asst Professor @ Clark working on Modern France, Jewish women's history, Holocaust memory, and museum spaces. Cat lover, group fitness addict, and pastry enthusiast.

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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks to Ari Barbalat for inviting me to speak on the "Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War Podcast." Here is a link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Ashley Valanzola, *When She Remembered: Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory*. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2026.
Podcast Episode · Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War · September 10 · 1h 18m
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If anyone wants a copy with the photos, let me know !
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm thrilled that my latest article with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social just came out in Southern Jewish History. Our article is titled: "Unlikely Sites of Holocaust Memory in the American South: The Cases of Charleston and Whitwell." You can check it out here: www.jewishsouth.org/contents-sou...
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Contents of Southern Jewish History By Volume | Southern Jewish Historical Society
Contents of Southern Jewish History By Volume View Index of Authors Southern Jewish History is pleased to provide free downloads of all volumes of the journal and individual articles. Use the links be...
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was great to speak at Lyon College today about my recent book: When She Remembered share.google/lvkbNlReU51X...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So proud that my hometown Grafton has its own Pride celebration. Also- holding Pride events during the moderate weather of September is a lovely contrast to the 100 degrees of Nashville in June. #pride
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Living that New England life one apple at a time.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Check out the latest by Irit Dekel: iupress.org/978025307736... Finally, it's available for pre-order! #NewBooks #BookRelease
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Witnessing Positions
In Germany, public debates about Holocaust memory, antisemitism, and migration often focus on minorities while leaving their voices, perspectives, and social...
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France
Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just launched a CFP for an edited collection on trauma-informed teaching. Check out the call here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... If you don't have access to HNET, don't hesitate to message me for the PDF. #highered #teaching #trauma #traumastudies
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CFP: Edited Collection—The Courage to Care: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Across the Disciplines | H-Net
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shocks to higher-education that have reverberated ever since, there has been increased interest in trauma-informed teaching. While recognizing that understandings of trauma vary widely, we generally adhere to guidance from SAMHSA which defines trauma as “an event or circumstances resulting in: physical harm, emotional harm, and/or life-threatening harm.” This trauma may have “lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being” (SAMHSA, 2026).
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Orientation complete ✅ Gearing up for my first semester at Clark.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My faculty page is up! Excited to be joining Clark this fall! www.clarku.edu/faculty/prof...
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Ashley Valanzola
Ashley Valanzola is a historian of Holocaust Studies and modern France, whose research focuses on memory, women’s and gender history, and museums. She joined the Strassler Center in 2026 holding the D...
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Gordon JCC today. It was a unique opportunity to give a talk about memory work on the same property that is home to the Nashville Holocaust Memorial. I will miss my TN crew! Photo: Opal Lovitt
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One last talk in Nashville tomorrow at the Gordon Jewish Community Center. 1215pm!
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Finally experienced Niagra Falls today and it did not disappoint. Staying on the Canadian side for the evening.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you're a #Nashville area local, I'm hosting a book talk at the Gordon Jewish Community Center on Aug 6, 1215pm. A limited number of books will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there!
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I had a great time speaking about my new book with Gary Girod on the French History Podcast. Enjoy! Jewish Women & the Memory of the Holocaust with Dr. Ashley Valan… www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/jewish-women... #podcast #FrenchHistory #France
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Jewish Women & the Memory of the Holocaust with Dr. Ashley Valan…
Dr. Ashley Valanzola discusses how seven women's experiences in the Holocaust and its commemoration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm being interviewed about my book on a podcast next week. Any tips for first timers? (I ordered a decent mic already) #podcast #authors #interview
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Look at this incredible work Ellie Smith is doing at Virginia Tech! #Dday #virginiatech youtu.be/PDZdnY1SPME?...
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Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Museum shows off D-Day exhibit
YouTube video by WSLS 10
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank you to the Tennessee Holocaust Commission for inviting me to speak about my book at the Vise Family Holocaust Education Summit. What an incredible audience of #teachers !
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
As someone who absolutely loves bears, I am more excited than ever to join Clark. (I'm not being sarcastic about my love of bears) www.wcvb.com/article/blac...
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Black bear escapes into woods after video shows animal on Worcester streets
A black bear escaped into a wooded area after video showed the animal evading police near a high school in Worcester, Thursday afternoon.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thanks to the #Nashville Sounds for honoring me as their Hit City Hero tonight ! #veteran
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Germans deported Leon alongside his wife, Renee. Their daughter, Denise Baumann, made sure they were memorialized through decades of memory work in France. I wrote about the Baumanns in my book: iupress.org/978025307582...
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When She Remembered
When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin,...
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The special issue on incarceration for French Historical Studies is now out! In our (open access) introduction, we begin by journeying through the carceral archipelago in France and its empire from the early modern period through to today ... doi.org/10.1215/0016... 🧵🗃️ 1/7 @fuggbug.bsky.social
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The first box is finally here !! #IUP #France
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wow!!!! "In an ephemeral era of mass documentation — of our own lives, of our public and private existence — the re-emergence of these photographs is a tangible reminder that some images refuse to be erased from our collective past." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
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Opinion | France Has a New Picture of the Holocaust
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For those of you in NYC, here's an event not to miss: www.lbi.org/events/free-...
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Never Again, When?: German Memory Culture, the Holocaust, and Free Expression: with Irit Dekel and Omri Boehm
Part 1 of the Forum on Free Speech and Democracy, with Irit Dekel and Omri Boehm.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Headed to Clark in August! www.clarku.edu/news/2026/05...
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Clark appoints inaugural David Angel Endowed Chair in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies
Dr. Ashley Valanzola has been appointed the inaugural David P. Angel Endowed Chair in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Tomorrow I'm facilitating a virtual conversation with Lilly Maier. Check it out: “Rescue as Resistance – Jewish Female Rescuers in France” Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 10-11:30 am EST Please email fellowships@cjh.org to register and to receive the paper and the ZOOM link.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Congratulations MTSU Grads!! Proud to be the mace bearer for your special day.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Books are being delivered now!
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“One of the unfortunate results of technology is that you can spend your whole life by yourself in a room and feel like you’re in touch with the world,” he said. “There’s a price to be paid for that. History has to be felt. Not just taught.” www.chronicle.com/article/hist...
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Defying His State’s Restrictions, a Retired Professor Teaches About Racism: ‘History Has to Be Felt’
As censorship laws spread, FIU’s Michael Dunn has pitched a lone battle to fight back.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I assigned this powerful interview to my class and was reminded about how much we have left to do to fight the insidiousness of sexual violence in our society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e7M...
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#MeToo Movement Founder Tarana Burke On How Her Shame Turned Into Anger, Then Activism
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
'Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.'
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French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery
Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ connections to slavery
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A sad goodbye to a mentor and a great historian. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...
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Ronald H. Spector, Who Traced Social History in Books on War, Dies at 83
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Powerful and tragically beautiful. Dance as protest. youtube.com/shorts/8OVi5...
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Bindfolded dancers protest Epstein, Trump
YouTube video by Washington Post
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Check out the latest from @markdoyle.bsky.social !!! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/04/the-...
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The Last Battle of Agnes B. | The Saturday Evening Post
An elderly woman’s personal war against fascism in occupied Paris.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We're hosting this timely symposium on trauma-informed pedagogy. It's online, join us! #highered #trauma #teaching
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Love this quote from Clint Smith in reference to the Whitney Plantation: "It is a place asking the question How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Seems like an appropriate day here in Tennessee to repost this important statement. www.ala.org/advocacy/int...
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The Freedom to Read Statement
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I charged students taking an independent study with me to plan an event. Look at what they did!!! Join us on April 15 to hear from Holocaust survivor and speaker George Rishfeld.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I love librarians! www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...
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Tenn. library director refuses board order to move children’s books
Rutherford County’s library director refuses to relocate 132 children’s books, citing First Amendment concerns amid months of debate over LGBTQIA+ titles.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The one nugget of good news I needed to see today: Meryl Streep Makes Seven-Figure Gift to Advance the Future of Women’s History | National Women's History Museum share.google/7wscNSHLsOub...
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Meryl Streep Makes Seven-Figure Gift to Advance the Future of Women’s History
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
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“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous
An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta issued a statement following the New York Times’ investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
“I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.
I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences.
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Ashley Valanzola @ashleyvalanzola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thankful to the Tennessee Holocaust Commission for the invite to participate in their Holocaust education summit. Local educators should check it out. Students get half off at registration.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I don’t know whether you know this but my book is Open Access and you can read it for free on your kindle via Amazon (where it is the number one health policy download!). Also totally open access with extra resources online at jimcrowintheasylum.com
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Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship
<h3>Untangling the relationship between race and psychiatry in the American South</h3> There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama...
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LizdelaGarzaG @lizdelagarzag.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The blast in Liège exposes a hollowed-out Belgian ethics. Tolerance is a performance if the state cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens' faith. www.reuters.com/world/synago...
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Belgian synagogue damaged in blast considered antisemitic act
An explosion hit a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liege early on Monday in what authorities said was an ​antisemitic attack that caused damage but no injuries.
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