Reposted by Chloe AhmannCornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here. 23315
Reposted by Chloe AhmannBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/05/2026The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:theringer.comWho’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!” 382613786
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Friends who have been external reviewers for tenure cases (many of you): any advice on writing good letters for a first timer? How long are these? How do they differ from letters of rec in style and substance? What less-than-obvious things should one know about the genre? Thank you! 352
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026ithacavoice.org/2026/05/corn...ithacavoice.orgCornell president accused of running over students foot, backing up into another - The Ithaca VoiceITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff is accused of backing his car into a student and running over the foot of another. The incident allegedly occurred as Kotlikoff […] 000
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The films are live! youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comPolluted by Design: Histories of Waste and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Baltimore - YouTubeSet in the neighborhoods of South Baltimore, Polluted by Design is a four-part documentary series examining how waste infrastructure, industrial zoning, and ... 010
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Over the past year, @anandian.bsky.social and I have joined forces with our students and the remarkable folks at South Baltimore Community Land Trust to produce a 4-part documentary series on the history of environmental (in)justice on the city’s southern edge. It’s called “Polluted By Design.” 1113
Reposted by Chloe AhmannChloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨ tinyurl.com/4tb8vncptinyurl.com<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online LibraryAfter decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter .... 183
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨ tinyurl.com/4tb8vncptinyurl.com<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online LibraryAfter decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter .... 183
Reposted by Chloe AhmannSociety for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025A big shout out to our two Bateson Book Prize 🏆 Honorable Mentions! Congrats to @chloeahmann.bsky.social and Jean Dennison for these phenomenal books from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social: 041
Reposted by Chloe AhmannChloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨ 3203
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨ 3203
Reposted by Chloe AhmannThe University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Congratulations to Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann on receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 Bateson Prize! Explore a powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore and celebrate this well-deserved recognition by securing your copy here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAA 032
Reposted by Chloe AhmannChloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….drive.google.com 2104
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….drive.google.com 2104
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Friends attending #AAA2025 - some health stuff is keeping me from all the spooky fun in NOLA but I have to boost this Thursday sesh on “The Specter of Fascism” co-organized with the best comrades. GET THERE! There will be brilliant people, urgent scheming, ZINES. #anthrosky 👻📚✊✨ 1121
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/11/2025aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...aaup-cornell.orgStatement on Cornell’s agreement with federal governmentThe Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar… 011
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I haven't shared reviews here lately since it feels a little cringe, but I'm always humbled when folks give Futures an earnest read and take time sharing what they think. So to get to sit with a ✨whole ass forum✨ has me floored! Grateful to all the contributors. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...tandfonline.comA book forum on Chloe Ahmann's Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (University of Chicago Press, 2024)Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2025) 060
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 12/10/2025www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...cornellsun.comWe Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am... 011
Reposted by Chloe AhmannNoah Theriault @noahtheriault.bsky.social · 06/10/2025👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity! 052
Reposted by Chloe AhmannKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 273
Reposted by Chloe AhmannKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below. 1196
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday... t.co/JUowfqw7cBt.cohttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876 1177
Reposted by Chloe AhmannRadhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comCollection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025 192
Reposted by Chloe AhmannNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c... 523047766
Reposted by Chloe Ahmannjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/07/2025when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak” 202143994012
Reposted by Chloe AhmannUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/ 274177845
Reposted by Chloe AhmannDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans 78142553266
Reposted by Chloe AhmannRehman Siddiq @rehmansiddiq.com · 22/06/2025No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. No more wars. 7555128
Reposted by Chloe AhmannStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this 8096337514278
Reposted by Chloe AhmannChloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news 8531
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news 8531
Reposted by Chloe AhmannChloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨ newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...newbooksnetwork.comChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network 0104
Reposted by Chloe AhmannL Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Futures After Progress - from Baltimore to the world! Listen for a teaser of this powerful read and a timely conversation with @chloeahmann.bsky.social on toxicity, politics, and the possible futures of our pasts 🌱 031
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨ newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...newbooksnetwork.comChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network 0104
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 14/04/2025“Instead of asking: ‘Do we all share the same worldview,’ [we might] ask: ‘Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra TaylorThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them 041
Reposted by Chloe AhmannKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Important for all of us but especially journalists. 6061921855
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Rare bright spot: www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/04/08/a...baltimorebrew.comA long-sought victory for community groups: Lawmakers end Maryland’s subsidy for incinerators | Baltimore BrewUntil it got a powerful new ally in Annapolis, a decade-long effort to end state support for trash-burning facilities, like South Baltimore’s BRESCO plant, always flamed out. 010
Reposted by Chloe AhmannMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/04/2025We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks. 162110173377
Reposted by Chloe AhmannMother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/03/2025The Trump administration has targeted at least eight foreign academics in America for deportation, often sending officers to snatch them off the street and shipping them halfway across the country—increasingly in apparent defiance of court orders against their rendition.motherjones.comTrump's secret police are stalking more and more studentsScholars targeted by ICE are suing to fight deportation—and halt Trump's war on the First Amendment. 44616326
Reposted by Chloe AhmannEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If you're a US historian who'd like to do this but are unfamiliar with the process, hit me up & I'll help you identify your target publication, write your pitch, & get your piece into that sweet, sweet 600-750 word range. (Pro bono in case that wasn't clear). It's my literal job & I'd love to help. 7936409
Reposted by Chloe AhmannKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDoes Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid KhalidiColumbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson 7396192
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Universities are not w/o recourse, despite what they want you to believe. (Cornell bought a building last week for $15mil, even as it cries austerity.) Our leaders are CHOOSING to abandon the core principles w/o which there can be no higher ed. There are other paths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight TrumpEvery university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months. 020
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025it’s ok to be bad at your job when everything’s unraveling (note to self) 041
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"This is what happens when universities don't stand by their students...Cornell has placed a target on my back." democracynow.org/2025/3/24/mo... via @democracynow.orgdemocracynow.orgPro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible DeportationThe Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds... 062
Reposted by Chloe AhmannPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown. 13893996561
Reposted by Chloe AhmannJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 14772375710974
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Apropos of nothing, "Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare" is now out in Public Culture. We grapple with the surprising glut of Shakespeare references in far-right fiction (so you don't have to) and ask wtf is going on there. The essay starts like this: doi.org/10.1215/0899... 150
Reposted by Chloe AhmannAssociation for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal @polar-journal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025politicalandlegalanthro.org/2025/03/21/a...politicalandlegalanthro.orgAPLA Taskforce on Academic FreedomLetter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, these are unprecedented and scary times in US higher education, with ongoing at… 053
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This. When we speak out in defense of the university, let it not be the university as it existed on Jan 19, 2025, which was a deeply authoritarian space. Let it be the one our students brought to life against all odds and for which they continue to be criminalized. 0165
Reposted by Chloe AhmannAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings. 12136032000