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Dr. Anca Wilkening

@historianca.bsky.social
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Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. UPenn Postdoc on Lenapehoking. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 10h
“Halumii Ktapihna contains visual art created by Lenape people, along with traditional dress, samples of music, and efforts to revitalize Lenape words and phrases.” 🧡
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Abducted, renamed, but still here – the art of the first Native New Yorkers and their fight for their land
The US tried to forcibly assimilate the Lenape in brutal boarding schools, but a new exhibit proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are rapists allowed to use AI to draft their punishment essays though?
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Back in 2017 I co-organized an event collecting stories of sexual and gender-based misconduct and violence at Yale Divinity School. Several of the submitted stories concerned abusers being able to graduate without penalty etc. despite leadership knowing. Nothing changed. No one really cared.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Western Mass Lesbian Bar Zoom has the exact same energy as a Harvard College residential staff meeting, I am not even joking.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm pretty sure when my early modern radical Pietist research subjects mused about about the Divine "man-womanly" body of light they imagined it exactly like a male lion with the voice of Meryl Streep.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come and post-doc with me next year!
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Never heard of him.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So... being a German living in the U.S. at this particular time is kind of surreal. Lately, I’ve been listening to a song by Marlo Grosshardt called "Oma." He sings to his grandmother at her grave about the fear of watching history repeat itself, remembering her warning: "Never again is now."
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Apply now for the ACLS H. and T. King Fellowship in Ancient American Art and Culture, offered as part of the ACLS Fellowship program (no separate application necessary). These awards for early career scholars carry a stipend of up to $60K. Apply by Sept. 17, 5PM ET: bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I
Two people are looking at ancient American stone carvings mounted on a wall. Text reads: ACLS H. and T. King Fellowships in Ancient American Art and Culture, apply by September 17, 2026, at 5:00 PM ET.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
More than mildly excited that my new workplace is co-organizing this amazing public-facing symposium and the location just happens to be a gem of Pennsylvanian German History. Feeling right at home.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New office, who dis?
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Concerned Harvard women's, gender, and sexuality studies alum collectively organizing: www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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We’re Harvard WGS Alumni. Our Field Has Never Mattered More. | The Harvard Crimson
At Harvard, the single biggest threat to the study of gender and sexuality has long come from the institution itself.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👇 This is necessary reading - about the closing of one particular program, but giving insights into the bigger war on education:
Starting with the last claim first, about “financial return,” closing the department will supposedly save Virginia Tech $121,185 per annum—barely a rounding error in an institutional operating budget of $2.5 billion. The neoliberal university may function like a corporation, but budgets are always moral documents that demonstrate what an institution values. So, if we’re talking about such a small portion (0.004%) of the budget, and yet “financial return on investment” was supposedly a driving factor in the decision, then we have to ask about those institutional values. Or, to put it another way, it’s fair to ask what Virginia Tech received for its $121,185.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
First-Gen Scholars/Students be like
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on religion and slave revolts with UVA Classics!
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
First day of not school. Kind of.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@chancebonar.bsky.social and I are on our way to Philly with a very full car. Moving into my @mcneilcenter.bsky.social office on Monday and getting that postdoc life started.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you are wondering why I haven't been on the blueskies.... this is the reason. Been rennovating, planting, and building...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Everyone should go buy Dana Lloyd’s new _Native American Religions_ and read @historianca.bsky.social’s wonderful chapter on Indigenous kinship, gender, and intimacy!!
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Preorder your copy for Jan 2027 here: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
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From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History
In this book, Chance E. Bonar offers a reception history of Onesimus from the first century until today in order to demonstrate the value of apocryphal Christian traditions. Bonara? TMs book highlight...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
In good anniversary fashion, @historianca.bsky.social and I are watching the Germany-Curaçao game at Chilis 🌶️
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The German family group chat is lit right now. Schlaaaaand!!!
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ok. I wasn't gonna pay too much attention to the World Cup for obvious reasons but the German national team making Winston Salem, NC, originally a Moravian settlement, their home base got me just a little bit excited.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Boston being hit by a meteor shortly after taking off from Logan Airport was not on my bingo card.
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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 28/05/2026
Featuring @historianca.bsky.social!
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hooded, Caped, Doctored
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I’m pretty glad I am no longer an adjunct at Harvard because I had some pretty unpleasant interactions/threats from students over generous B grades. I imagine undeserved B grades will be a whole new circle of hell for grad students and lecturers.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Was just informed by @katgelk.bsky.social that _From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History_ now has a page on @fortresspress.bsky.social's website! Consider pre-ordering for Jan 2027 to learn more about Onesimus from the 1st–20th centuries www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
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From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History
In this book, Chance E. Bonar offers a reception history of Onesimus from the first century until today in order to demonstrate the value of apocryphal Christian traditions. Bonara? TMs book highlight...
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Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Holy crap. I just found Kriegslieder für die Deutsch-Amerikanischen Kämpfer, a whole book of war songs for German-American troops fighting for the Union. This is INCREDIBLE. Are there any recordings?! archive.org/details/krie...
archive.org
Kriegslieder für die Deutsch-Amerikanischen Kämpfer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Without music
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Harvard admins asked me to revise my dissertation table of contents and I am currently uploading the new version of my full thesis mid-air on my flight to Germany. We are quite literally making Atlantic history over here. Stay tuned if Delta in-air wifi will carry through.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@historianca.bsky.social submitting her dissertation to ProQuest tonight like
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Defendi! From a rigorous but generous conversation with my stellar committee, to celebrating with community, to picketing with HGSU comrades on strike, to receiving lovely messages and gifts from near and afar - this day of becoming Dr. Wilkening has been a rush in the best way possible.
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Herr Seidel @herrseidel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
#Hegseth ordnet Abzug von 5.000 Soldaten aus Deutschland an, #Trump hebt die Zölle für Autos auf 25% an - ob wir ihnen sagen sollen, dass wir uns gerade mehr um einen Wal namens #Timmy sorgen? www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...
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Pentagon will 5.000 US-Soldaten aus Deutschland abziehen
US-Verteidigungsminister Hegseth hat laut Pentagon den Abzug von 5.000 US-Soldaten angeordnet. Das soll in zwölf Monaten abgeschlossen sein.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Could Chonkers be Timmy's salvation?
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am excited to finally share that I will the incoming Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at UPenn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies this fall. Don't tell Ben Franklin though. He likely would have a few grumpy things to say about a German getting that position at his university during America 250.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If you think the US political discourse is heated and delusional you haven't seen the German public's reaction and media response to Timmy the Whale.
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Academics for Peace @academicsforpeace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Was “Palestine” really invented by the Romans? Prof. Chance Bonar (University of Virginia) breaks down the long, complex history of the name “Palestine,” from ancient Egypt to the Greek and Roman worlds—and why its origins are often misrepresented today. youtube.com/shorts/sekT4...
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Looks like a cool book. Might read it sometime.
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Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My new article out in Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Scandal of Rachel Held Evans’s Evangelical Mind | Church History | Cambridge Core
The Scandal of Rachel Held Evans’s Evangelical Mind
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Life is a gamble but I took a Chance! Happy Jesus/Schapps Birthday @chancebonar.bsky.social and may you roll doubles always. #33
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
According to Humanities Indicators, humanities majors work across a wide range of sectors, earn substantially more than non-degree holders, & report high job satisfaction. The "unemployable humanities grad" is a myth. We need more humanists. #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutSocialSciences
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My birthday present for @chancebonar.bsky.social was delivered in a rather large box today and Lilith immediately claimed it for herself. I guess I am not opening that one. We will see if Chance will get a chance to.
A very large package with a very cute kitty sitting on top of it looking into the camera
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Dr. is loading...
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Him being here the day I submit my dissertation is the cinematic peak of my PhD, considering he tried to kick me out of the country twice
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
music.youtube.com/watch?v=_38S... The most accurate Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction has been in 60 years. "Ah, you may leave here for four days in space But when you return, it's the same old place"
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Eve Of Destruction
YouTube video by Barry McGuire - Topic
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is a great week to finish your dissertation defense draft. But then again, so have all the other weeks in recent times.
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