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Hadassah St. Hubert

@hsaint.bsky.social
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Historian of Haiti and the World’s Fairs | Digital Humanist | Fundraiser | Supporter of Arts, Culture & Humanities

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 17h
Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s been over a year since @halperta.bsky.social and our colleagues Lola and Martin have launched @sidracollaborative.bsky.social. 🎉
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just published! New co-authored article in the edited collection Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief. Its title: "The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives." Editors: @kpalex91.bsky.social & @librarianchef.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/libraries-ar...
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Even if it were true that postdocs benefit from a bespoke mentor-mentee relationship, it wouldn't negate their rights to labor protections. But guess what! It's not. We wrote about this in the Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights (2019): halperta.com/white%20pape...
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Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights
Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, Kim Martin. “Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights.” 2019.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A few years ago I published a resource: "Taking Action in Higher Ed." It's about assessing risk when making decisions to stand up for students & communities. If you've used this resource, can I ask: is there an exercise or section that you found particularly useful? halperta.com/shalperta%20...
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Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Join me, @perrycollins.bsky.social , Ashley Sands, and Dennis Nangle for our ThriveLib talk on August 12th!
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's true! Working with brilliant thinkers and writers like @electrostani.bsky.social is the best part of my job. ✨ If you're on sabbatical this fall, consider partnering with a developmental editor (like me :)). I'd love to talk with you about how I can help you move your project forward.
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Haitian Studies Association @haitianstudies.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Impact of Supreme Court TPS ruling on Haitians, Syrians and tens of thousands in the US" With Francois Pierre-Louis Listen to conversation in The World: buff.ly/qIHOXry
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss documentary. In the 1980s, a swine flu crossed the Haitian-Dominican border and started to affect the Creole pig, an important commodity in Haiti. The flu also threatened livestock in the United States. www.pbs.org/show/the-cre...
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The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss
How the eradication of a breed leads to the crushing economic blow of a country.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We have created a booklet with advertisements of self-emancipating enslaved people in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries. It aims to make these ads more accessible and contains images of c. 20 ads, their transcriptions, and a short introduction contextualizing them. tinyurl.com/26zkuxf7 1/
Cover of a booklet of advertisements for Self-Emancipating enslaved people in Barbados, in 18th and 19th centuries.
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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So glad to hear that #NEH awards canceled last year will be reinstated soon! For those of you dealing with this, I'm sure the process requires new forms, work plans, or budgets, which can be frustrating. Pls remember that your NEH colleagues are overworked and overwhelmed, too.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc
Information for NEH grantees on reinstatement of awards
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🤬 You do not "fill the gap" in archives. You ask *why* the gap is there in the first place. That is where the real information resides. Also: LLMs train on digitized materials. Do you have any idea how little has been digitized? LLMs train on a *sliver* of the human past and human knowledge.
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Check out historypin by Shift Collective www.about.historypin.org
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About Historypin
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Reminding myself for no reason that I do this work because I believe in it. Yes, I believe people benefit from and deserve access to education after high school. And yes, I believe in teaching and researching arts, culture, and the humanities.
A mountain stream burbles over moss-covered stones in a green forest dappled with sunlight.
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jennifer arévalo @madrecuixe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
giving an intro to digital preservation workshop for folks outside of LIS interested in/already developing a community archive & i *still* refer to @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's 'the house archives built,' esp when discussing the question 'should everything be digitized?' publisher / practitioner!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Sak Pase, New York City!

I’m proud to once again join both Michaël Brun and Council Member Rita Joseph in wishing all the Haitians who call this city home a joyful Haitian Heritage Month.

And to Haiti’s national team: best of luck in the World Cup. Grenadye Alaso!
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One of the least surprising insights of our survey is that non-tenured faculty are more afraid overall. I am non-tenured myself. I helped produce the report, and I'm willing to boost & talk about it. Some of us have to, however prudently, while the risk is mid. #yalereport aaupyale.org/report/
Bar chart showing that non-Tenured faculty generally express more acts of self-censorship than tenured faculty.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sharing one more time because there is no algorithm: My reflections on leaving the federal workforce, recovering from burnout, and figuring out what comes next: halperta.com/public%20wri...
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Sabbatical
In March of 2025, I left my job as a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I promised myself when I left my position at NEH that after a year had passed, I'd write something about my experience as an un/under/employed former fed. Here it is: halperta.com/public%20wri...
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Sabbatical
In March of 2025, I left my job as a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Congrats @halperta.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@sidracollaborative.bsky.social can help your organization plan to distribute emergency funding.
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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So, my colleague, @katielcoldiron.bsky.social, and I co-authored a handbook with simple, common sense tips for identifying and writing a grant. #6 in the @dlocaribbean.bsky.social Handbook series. See the book here: dloc.com/AA00115422/0....
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Fellowship Opp: Just Tech CFP is now live. Cohort will run from Jan to Dec 2027. The unrestricted award is for up to $60K, along with monthly virtual gatherings, individualized mentoring, one in-person workshop, and ongoing access to the Just Tech network. www.ssrc.org/programs/jus...
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Just Tech Fellowship
The Just Tech Fellowship supports researchers and practitioners investigating the intersection of technology and social justice.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
After 10+ year building origin stories for others with bestie Glover, I can't believe I'd never heard her own! And a great one too! Good times. Check out this great interview with Ashley Newby for the Black Studies Podcast. 🤩🤩 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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Kaiama Glover - Department of Black Studies, Yale University
Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · April 29 · 49m
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hey academic friends, if you're planning some writing over the summer and could use some support, I offer coaching and editing services for non-fiction writers. halperta.com/categories/e...
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Writing and Editing
Towards a better future for the humanities.
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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I hava piece in today's @nytimes.com thinking through the intertwined histories of Haiti & the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...
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Opinion | It’s Been Centuries Since Haiti’s Revolution. It’s Still Paying for It.
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
CLIR @clirnews.bsky.social and Shift Collective have published: Preserving Endangered Cultural Memory at a Time of Heightened Risk: Evaluating the Recordings at Risk Grant Program. For more, see www.clir.org/2026/04/rar-...
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CLIR and Shift Collective Announce Release of Recordings at Risk Evaluation Report
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Shift Collective are pleased to announce the publication of Preserving Endangered Cultural Memory at a Time of Heightened Risk: Evaluating t...
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If anyone still wants to do that work hi I'm interested.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🌱✨Actually so excited and honored to help open this amazing program✨🎉
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Sat down for an interview with Marlene Daut for @publicbooks.bsky.social on my edition & translation of "......And the Dogs Were Silent" by A. Césaire. Always fun to talk to Marlene. Could not ask for a better interlocutor! Cc @dukepress.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/courage-or-f...
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“Courage or Foolhardiness”: Talking Aimé Césaire with Alex Gil - Public Books
“This way of going about prophecy sadly replaces the historical fact of Black victory with a timeless failed rebellion. Too bleak, if you ask me.”
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Congrats to Sidra Cofounder @halperta.bsky.social!!
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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is great news for IMLS and the libraries & museums that it funds through their grant programs: www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
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Trump administration withdraws appeal, securing historic victory for libraries and IMLS
On April 6, 2026, a federal court granted the Trump Administration’s request to withdraw its appeal of a federal judge’s earlier ruling that struck down the Administration’s dismantling of the Institu...
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Haitian Studies Association @haitianstudies.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Online Films Screening – Four Short Films by Al’Ikens Plancher Date & Time: Friday, April 24th, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST/12 p.m. CT/ 10 a.m. PST buff.ly/hef7J7J • Boat People, 2024 (10 minutes) • Tifi , 2021 (13 minutes) • La Vie, 2023 (4 minutes) • Konpa, 2023 (9 minutes)
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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Asheesh is exactly right. There's not enough funding for the humanities. We can argue the details, but that's the fundamental problem.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/03/2026
Lol the Department of WAAARRRR featured Smedley Butler on its blog today. You’ll never guess which big parts of his story they leave out! www.war.gov/News/Feature...
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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Excited for this upcoming webinar series from @atbw.bsky.social: Uplifting the Workers: Shining a Light on the Invisible Labor Powering Artificial Intelligence Technologies. Sign up for email notifications to stay informed on webinar speakers and dates: tinyurl.com/atbw-ai
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Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
March 25 is the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Beyond this symbolic day, it demands we understand the full scale of what was done, who resisted, and what legacies persist. #cdsc
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Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🗺️ Mapping the Caribbean across 400 years of history. The Greater Caribbean Map Project (ca. 1450–1850) catalogs how Indigenous, African, Asian, and European forces shaped the region — now in one open-access digital platform. #DigitalHumanities #CaribbeanHistory
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Today is the one year anniversary of my last day of work at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
hehehehe I just remembered that time my friends and I made a satirical tarot deck about COVID and higher ed and called it the Academic Psychic Friends Network. visionary-futures-collective.github.io/psychicfrien...
Tarot card: Card 0 - The Grad Student - is a painting of a white person with sandy brown hair in a long braid and a beard. They have a COVID mask around their neck, they are wearing flashy pink jewelry, and they are holding a coffee maker. For some reason they are not wearing a shirt.
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jennifer arévalo @madrecuixe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
the documentation & archives team at @afterviolence.bsky.social is looking to hire a paid intern for may - december 🌈 app closes 4/12 afterviolenceproject.org/opportunities/
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Opportunities | After Violence Project
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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yay!! Congrats @halperta.bsky.social !!
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If you are an academic worker who is not sure what action might look like in your context, my workbook Taking Action in Higher Ed might help. It has some tools for assessing risk and some suggestions for how to build solidarity and take steps to fight repression. halperta.com/shalperta%20...
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Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps. Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives - Volume 65
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
For the "everything is online" crowd in the back: Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.
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Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Congrats to Sidra Co-Founder @hsaint.bsky.social, who presented at the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) last week! Hadassah's presentation was about the funder(s) gap and the devastating consequences of federal funding cuts in arts, culture, and the humanities. ✨
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