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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do I call IT when Duo Mobile login is communicating with satan?

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey historians! Do y'all think this paleography would be too difficult for 4000-level history honors students to read for a seminar? 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No problem. I definitely don't need to be able to read those big chunks of missing text. I'm sure they don't say anything important. 🫣

Image of a 17th-century document with holes cut out of it.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Seeking: A very wealthy donor to endow a new, year-long fellowship. Fellows will spend the entire year simply catching up on all of the amazing books that have come out in their field. In the meantime, I will start with this long-awaited gem! 🗃️

Cover image of Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth's new book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Seeing an article that took years to produce in page proofs is a joy that will never get old. Coming soon! 🗃️

Image of proofs for an article titled "Economies of Ransom: The Many Captivities and Rescates of Francisco García, ca. 1655-1682"

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How you know England is in a bit of denial about how hot this summer will be...

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nailed it! 😂 But seriously, why are scholars giving into this nonsense. Just do the work. 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So excited to participate in this conversation on Thursday at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide! 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hey historians! Thoughts on what English name this Spanish scribe Hispanized in the 1680s? 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Early sixteenth-century paleography is not messing around! Here are some of the more entertaining scribbles that have made reading this legajo an absolute slog! 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New year and a new project... 🫣

Poorly preserved 16th-century document with holes.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My book is about how a century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged through practices of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

Cover of the book The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea! Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Studying the sixteenth century is fun... 😭 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My Far Side calendar struck a little close to the bone today... 😂

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Cover of The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt, image with ocean and coastline

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!

Cover page for new book titled The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As the piece about Neil Gaiman makes its rounds, I am reminded of this book. The care, diligence, and awareness in JWS's writing about power and abuse is extremely relevant right now, especially for thinking about what media outrage means for victims and how/why we tell and retell their stories.

Cover image of John Wood Sweet's book titled The Sewing Girls' Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If you're around the AHA this weekend, come join this conversation about 17th-century slavery, resistance, and community!

Panel description for the AHA on Resistance and Community Formation under Slavery and Colonialism in the 17th-Century Atlantic World on Sunday, January 5th from 1:30-3:00pm in Sutton South.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Look what arrived today! Can't wait to read this! @profjennyshaw.bsky.social 🗃️

Cover image of Jenny Shaw's new book titled The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Oh my!!! Well, that's one way to Hispanize the name Sir John Watling! 🤭

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

17th-century maritime life at its finest. 🤢

A section of text that refers to eating dog.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

I am very much looking forward to this book! Coming in September!

UPenn Press page for Chelsea Berry's forthcoming book, Poisoned Relations

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I'm excited participate in this wonderful program in February. Also, check out the fellowships associated with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies! www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fel...

Flyer for the 2024-25 Early Global Caribbean program at UCLA

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The joy of moving back into the second half of the 17th century after spending the past year reading documents from the 16th is indescribable. It's so clear! I can read it! My eyes don't hurt!

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Chapters compiled and editing done. This thing is going to outside readers today!!! Fingers crossed that the peer review process is productive and not too brutal... 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Every semester seems to get busier and busier, but getting to the finish line on this one is going to be a challenge...

Dinosaur called Monday chasing little boy

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

It's such a joy to review great books! Check out my review of Joseph Clark's new book and then go check out this great book! read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

Cover image of Joseph M.H. Clark's book, titled Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Also an accurate way to describe writing a book for the first time: 🗃️

Text box that reads: Life is like a helicopter. I don't know how to operate a helicopter.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

While the conversation this book engages in is super relevant and important for historians, it also makes me increasingly grateful to be a scholar of the 17th century: www.ianmilligan.ca/publication/...

Cover image of Ian Milligan's book titled History in the Age of Abundance? How the web is transforming historical research

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Anyone have suggestions for readings that take up McKittrick's critique of the concreteness of geography in terms of Indigenous dispossession and resistance? Also, this book is so ridiculously smart and provocative. 🗃️

Cover of Katherine McKittrick's book, Demonic Grounds

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Went on a dark academia fiction kick for my night time reading and came across this gem. Witty, dark, and unexpected. On a related note, probably not the best book for relaxing evening reading, but so worth the exhaustion today!

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Super niche comment, but my whole book is like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game except its not Kevin Bacon, it's Walter Raleigh. I just can't get away from this dude. 🗃️

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Hey Vast Early America folks: check out the CFP for the OI conference in Poitiers, France this summer! Proposals due 11/1. 🗃️ I'm getting very excited about the panel that I'm putting together for this transcontinental conversation! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

About a month left to apply to present at the Association of Caribbean Historians in Santa Marta, Colombia this summer! CFP: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/call-for-pap...

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day! Remember, not everyone gets today off. Be kind, tip generously, and support organized labor so that everyone can experience dignity, security, and paid holidays!

Union Workers for a Clean and Just Economy

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Such a poignant, nuanced, and beautifully written book! Can't praise it highly enough:

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

This is a terrible loss for Caribbean history. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and colleagues.

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