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Benita Blessing

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Senior Development Officer, Samaritan Health Foundation. Historian of 20th-Century Germany.

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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm (very! 🎉) pleased to announce a new chapter of my professional life! I'll be starting with Samaritan Health Services' Foundation as Senior Development Specialist next week!
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Your scholarly societies are working hard to understand & help improve working conditions. See AHA’s survey below. And I’m thrilled to be working alongside @janineutell.bsky.social on @modernlanguage.bsky.social‘s Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Lang & Lit www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...
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Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and...
The MLA, in collaboration with the Association of Departments of English and the Association of Language Departments, has convened an Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and Litera...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it! asecs.org/publications...
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Eighteenth-Century Studies – ASECS
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We’re over 50% voter turnout. Wow! Add your vote while there’s time to break more records!
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It’s so easy to vote in the @asecsoffice.bsky.social elections for the Executive Board! Let’s break some voter turnout records!
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
One of the most important ways to support professional societies is to help them accomplish their mission - even amidst uncertainty. Donate a small amount to a nonprofit you care about. Mine is @asecsoffice.bsky.social. Join me?
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We're 30% towards our goal for the @asecsoffice.bsky.social Grad Student Conference Fund Challenge! The Executive Board will match all donations made by Mon Feb. 3, up to $1,000! $10 or $100 - it all makes a difference. asecs.org/graduate-stu...
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Graduate Student Conference Support – ASECS
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Seriously friends - donate to a cause, any cause. It makes you feel great! I just donated to the @asecsoffice.bsky.social Exec Board challenge for grad student conference support. If that’s not your thing, just donate. $10 or $1,000 - it all matters!
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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ
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George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Almost halfway to our goal this year! Donate $18 for the 18th Century today! Your donation makes a difference now more than ever. asecs.org/giving-tuesd...
Bar graph of ASECS Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, indicating number of donations as of 2pmET: 1 to Traveling Jam Pot, 9 to Sustainability Fund, 1 to Non-Tenure Track Fund and 1 to the Theatre and Performance Studies Fund. Almost halfway to our goal!
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
$18 a month - just this month, or every month! Now, more than ever, your donations matter.
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Can I get 18 members to join me? Details to follow! #GivingTuesday is coming up!
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Soooo many sessions to choose from - which one will you apply to? Deadline Friday Sept. 20! asecs.org/meetings/ase...
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Call for Papers – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Deadlines: Nominations to the Executive Board Sept. 16, CfP for #ASECS2025 Sept. 20! asecs.org/2024/09/16/d...
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Deadlines: Nominations and CfP – ASECS
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
📅Upcoming @asecsoffice.bsky.social deadlines: 💡Board Nominations (Sept. 16) 🪩CfP (Sept. 20) 🗳️Bylaws Referendum Oct. 10 Details here! asecs.org/2024/09/06/b...
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Board Nominations, Annual Meeting, and Bylaws Reminders – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Apply now to the @asecsoffice.bsky.social 55th Annual Meeting, to be held virtually March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025! asecs.org/meetings/ase...
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Call for Papers – ASECS
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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Announcement from @ASECSWomen: The Catharine Macaulay Prize (Graduate Student Prize) submission deadline is September 15. Description can be found here: www.asecswomenscaucus.com/catherine-ma...
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
#c18 Friends, if you want to see what's going on with the ASECS Bylaws referendum, take a look at the fabulous webpage our ED has made for us. Friends, we're almost at 50%!!!! KEEP GOING! VOTE! RENEW! JOIN AND VOTE! asecs.org/about/bylaws...
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Bylaws Referendum – ASECS
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
We have never had member engagement this high - at least not in recent history! So grateful to all @asecsoffice.bsky.social members!!!
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Renew by June 30, 2024 and get your @asecsoffice 2024-2025 membership at 2023-2024 rates! asecs.org/membership/j...
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Join – ASECS
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German Studies Association @thegsa.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
📢 Conference Travel Grants: The Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers travel grants for scholars to attend a professional conference to present original research on the Holocaust ⏰ Deadline: July 1, 2024 👉 www.ushmm.org/conference-travel-grants
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Conference Travel Grants - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce conference travel grants for scholars to attend a profess...
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
#ASECS2024 please check your spam folders for conference-related email sent via the app. You can download the app and find the passcode on the schedule page: asecs.org/preliminary-... Safe travels everyone!
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Preliminary Schedule – ASECS
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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Let’s get out there and change the narrative: www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...
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Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes
The ADE Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evide...
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
🚨I'm one of the editors of the Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain series at Manchester Univ Press. We are especially interested in expanding offerings on the late 17th and 18th centuries. Please reach out! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern 🗃️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/polit...
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Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain - Manchester University Press
This important series publishes volumes that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in early modern Britain and beyond. It seeks to counteract the ...
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
ASECS peeps! Women's Caucus is always looking for support for our members; NTTF also a great way to give to the VITAL part of our membership. #c18
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Don't forget: 12/31 midnight is the deadline for charitable donations for 2023. Donate to your favorite ASECS fund!
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ASECS Membership - Contributions
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Chairs received the *preliminary* schedule for #ASECS2024. You can find your session here by short title. Any changes will usually be minor; check with your session chair for questions! asecs.org/preliminary-...
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Preliminary Schedule – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Lots of ASECS news. Members received the President's Letter from Lisa A. Freeman, which includes a link to the Fall News Circular. asecs.org/2023/12/21/p...
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President’s Letter and News Circular – ASECS
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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Have you started a history PhD recently? Want to tell us about it in 5 mins or less? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th C Britain at our #LightningTalks event in March 2024 #c18th
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
It can be hard to know how much to donate on #givingtuesday to an organization you care about. "Give what you can" isn't much guidance, either. Try one of these calculations: Give $10 for every year you've been a member, or $5 to 5 different funds, or your age, or your house number.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Calling for experts of #BookHistory and beyond: The Book History Book Prize from SHARP - for books copyrighted 2023 - is open for submissions: sharpweb.org/grants-prize... Being once again one of the jury members, I am looking forward to see your book. Deadline is January 19, 2024. #skystorians 🗃️
Logo of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 09/11/2023
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special, digital-only issue of the journal on “The Mistakes I Have Made.” We invite historians to reflect on their missteps and how those missteps reveal insights into historical practice. The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2023. 🗃️
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AHR Special Issue: The Mistakes I Have Made
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue of the journal on how missteps reveal insights into historical practice.
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Louis Gottschalk book prize for studies of the long 18th century: deadline is Dec. 1! Info here: asecs.org/resources/aw... Please share widely.
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Louis Gottschalk Prize – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
We’re having some technical issues with the website that we are working on resolving. If you see an error code on a page, please check back later! Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience!
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
The long 18th Century is alive and well at the Goethe Society’s panels at the German Studies Association. Planetary Thinking, Patriarchal Structures, and a tribute to Bob Tobin, who died far too young, & whose work on queer German studies helped rewrite the Age of Goethe.
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Presented today on a roundtable on Disability and (the GSA) Conference. Really great discussion - a lot of ideas to bring back to my “other” academic home @asecsoffice.bsky.social and to share a few ideas too.
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
On my way to Montreal for GSA! Any @asecsoffice.bsky.social people want to grab coffee?
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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Oh hey, look what I'm doing on November 15 #18thc 🗃️ friends: talking about the incredible archive connected to #sexworker Sally Salisbury and what it tells us about fame, profit, reputation, early celebrity, and more! Come and join, I promise we'll have fun #histsex
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ODSECS 31: Bethany Qualls
Sally Salisbury from Sex Work to Coffin Robbery: A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Fame
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
New Job Posting! The English Department at Boston University is hiring a tenure-track professor of Native American and/or Indigenous Literature in English. Any historical period. 2/2 teaching load. Deadline Oct 20. Please share widely. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37520616...
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Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
ASECS folks: submit to my panel on #18thc sex by Sept 15!
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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000 Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000 Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000 Deadline: Nov 15 www.aauw.org/resources/pr... #neuroscience #neurogrants
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American Fellowships
AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Friends, may I ask you pls to help me publicize a t-t job at my institution? Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard is seeking a scholar of French/Francophone lit who specializes in a period before the 19th century. Applications due 9/22. Thank you! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490
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Tenure-Track Professor of Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth...
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
On my way for a site visit to our #ASECS2024 Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto. It’s going to be a great venue for a great group of 18th Centuryists! asecs.org/meetings/asecs-2024-annua…
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ASECS 2024 Annual Meeting – ASECS
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Take a break from reading all the amazing sessions you can apply to for #ASECS2024 and nominate someone (or yourself!) for the Executive Board. Nominations accepted through Oct 1. 2023! asecs.org/about/elections
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Elections – ASECS
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Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Yes, the rumor is true. ASECS will be hosting NourbeSe Philip for a reading/performance of _Zong!_ at our Annual Meeting in Toronto. Thanks to the Program Committee for this work, and for helping find enthusiastic sponsors.
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