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Kathleen Keller

@kellkate.bsky.social
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Gustavus prof, Notre Dame alum, and Minnesotan. I write about Africa, France, colonialism, migration, policing, and surveillance in the 20th c. All opinions are my own and not my employer

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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I had an incredible opportunity this week to discuss my book Colonial Suspects with colleagues in colonial history at the University of Granada, Spain as part of the Suspicio Project funded by the European Research Council. I received an incredibly warm welcome and I learned so much.
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looking forward to this program in Granada, Spain next week on the history of suspicion in colonial contexts. wpd.ugr.es/~suspicio/ne...
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News – SUSPICIO
El próximo día 30 de septimebre se celebrará el tercer workshop SUPICIO Suspicion in Colonial Contexts. Rumors, Fears and Repression en el Salón de Actos del Carmen de la Victoria en Granada, comenzando a las 09:00 h.
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll be attending this workshop in Granada, Spain next week: canal.ugr.es/convocatoria...
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SUSPICIO III. Suspicion in Colonial Contexts: Rumors, Fears and Repression. - Canal UGR
Lugar: Carmen de la Victoria Hora: 9:15 Fecha de inicio: 30/9/2026 Fecha de fin: 2/10/2026 Organizadores: Martin Biersack, Richard Herzog, Beatriz García-Torres Robles, Iván Antonio Haro Palma. Web de...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/07/2026
New St. Scholastica president Dr. Brenda Kelly takes over the private college at a difficult time. While enrollment is strong, the school is reportedly facing a $5.6 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2027 and recently laid off several faculty members.
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College of St. Scholastica in Duluth welcomes 14th president
Brenda Kelly began work at the college this week. Previously Kelly was provost and dean at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
My letter to the editor in the New York Times. Please read with this gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | When a Government Tracks Its Opponents
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My letter to the editor was published in the New York Times about the history of Native Americans in Minnesota and the state flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | When a Government Tracks Its Opponents
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is the conference happening at my college. It really is exciting!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This isn’t my field. I’m not working on anything even remotely related. I don’t generally read this area. However, this is the most exciting sounding conference and I would attend in a heartbeat if I could. Sugar: Bringing Sweetness to Light gustavus.edu/about/nobel-...
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Nobel Conference
Since 1965, the Nobel Conference has been bringing leading researchers and thinkers to Gustavus, to explore revolutionary, transformative and pressing scientific issues and the ethical questions that ...
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I met Melissa Hortman once at a fundraiser in our town about 70 miles southwest of the Twin Cities. Most people live in the metro area and its easy to ignore the rest of the state. But, Melissa came to see us. She was a kind and generous person and a great leader. Thank you. Rest in peace, Melissa.
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I hope I'm not too late to share this book by @richardivanjobs.bsky.social. I already ordered it for my college library, but would love a personal copy. I'm tagging @drsepinwall.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I have a new book review out in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. The book is Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria by Samuel Kalman. You can read it here: www.ncfs-journal.org/kathleen-kel...
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Keller on Kalman (2024) | ncfs
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My letter to the editor was published in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/.../letters-....
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My letter to the editor was published in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/.../letters-....
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I published a book review as part of an H-environment roundtable on the book _The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies_ By Yan Slobodkin. You can read it here: networks.h-net.org/slobodkin-st...
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Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies," H-Environment Roundtable 15, no. 1 (2025) | H-Net
Dear Colleagues,Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Yan Slobodkin's The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies. Please enjoy and distribute widely.Title:...
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Recently learned that @chanda.bsky.social is coming to Gustavus next month. That's so cool. gustavus.edu/calendar/moe...
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Moe Visiting Lecture by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - March 19 at 7:30–9 p.m.
Time: March 19 at 7:30–9 p.m.Location:Alumni HallAudience:PublicCategory:GeneralDescriptionThe Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program is delighted to welcome Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein…
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Is anyone listening to the Ghost of a Chance podcast from the Star Tribune? It's a Minnesota history story. Very good. www.startribune.com/ghost-of-a-c...
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New podcast follows reporter’s search for answers about his Minneapolis home’s former owners
Reporter Eric Roper traces the lives of a Black couple who owned his house in 1917. Their story reveals a history of race that unfolded a century before Minneapolis became ground zero for a global rac...
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
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80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France (Gift Article)
The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegal’s new government won’t abide the mystery.
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Kathleen Keller @kellkate.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
My first bluesky post . . . I published a review of the important new book _Empire on the Seine_ by Amit Prakash. It's in the September issue of the American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Amit Prakash. Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975.
The title of the book Empire on the Seine by Amit Prakash calls to mind one of the most egregious incidents in the history of the Algerian War that took pl
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