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Kelly Hammond

@kellyahammond.bsky.social
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Accidental military historian

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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If the soul of Tibet is Han consumerism, I think we know who is winning this battle: www.wsj.com/world/in-chi...
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In China, Battle Is Raging for the Soul of Tibet
On the edge of the Himalayas, a tourist boomtown sells Chinese visitors a commoditized, politically palatable version of Tibetan culture.
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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Arkansas schools report exactly zero instances of trans athletes attempting to infiltrate and dominate girls' sports teams. The governor leapt at the chance to lie about and punch down on a vulnerable population anyway. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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Come for the hate, stay for the baloney: Sarah Sanders’ anti-trans TV ad offends on many levels - Arkansas Times
Gov. Sanders has gone up with a truly repellent reelection campaign ad in which she not only offers a false caricature that demeans transgender Arkansans, but also takes credit for doing things she…
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love how Xi makes it seem like the pandas are moving here forever, when we all know that Trump will likely do something in the next few months to get them sent back to Chengdu. Also, love that Trump traded pandas for military secrets and thinks this is a great deal. 🐼 🐼 🛩️
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Went to see Modest Mouse last night. First saw them live in 1998. Isaac Brock is now in his 50s. Wished I'd bought seats instead of general admission tickets throughout the whole show. Back is killing me today. Feel very old today.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Saved one more soul from going to law school today.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am teaching seniors who can not distinguish between fiction and non-fiction. Make Reading Cool Again.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In my day, a “wellness dartie” was a clove cigarette (Canadians calls cigs “darts”): Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/s...
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Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’ (Gift Article)
A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are doing a Comparative Politics/IR with a Middle East/North Africa focus job search. Really good research support from the Middle East Studies Program. uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...
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Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics/International Relations
Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just agreed to contribute a chapter to the new "Oxford Handbook of the Axis" about Muslims and the Axis Powers. No rest for the weary. Should be a doozy.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New Shirt.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love when my boomer colleagues send me things from Facebook that were on Instagram and TikTok like a month ago and are like: "Have you seen this video of Mamdani speaking Mandarin??"
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Faith Rejects: Woman with Camera
ALT: Faith Rejects: Woman with Camera
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Do you think I'll be able to retire with my cut from the Anthropic copyright settlement? 😜
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One of my top undergrads just started a PhD in History at Rutgers after finishing her MA in Singapore at NUS with Taomo Zhou. She just published a super article that developed out of her undergraduate Honors thesis project. Proud mentor moment! 🤓 🥳 ☺️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epub/10....
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency
Reader environment loaded
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Are we also renaming Ontaria, NY to America, NY? And, how do the good people of Rochester feel about the new name of thier (shared) lake?
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's my second year as a first-round judge for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize (History Category) and I am *super stoked* about the five finalists that we chose from a stellar list of books. Congrats to all the finalists!! www.acls.org/news/acls-na...
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ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards
Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/08/2026
Good morning. Here's the front page of The Globe and Mail for Monday, August 24, 2026. 📰
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's cool when your friends write books that you get to read:
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yeaahhhh!!!! It's rush week so all the sorority girls are parking illegally in the faculty lots so I could not find a place to park on campus and had to come home!!!! Missed a meeting looking for parking! (I know this is the case because faculty can't afford Mercedes and BMW SUVs.)
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ugh. Ugh. I absolutely hate everything about this. I get that there are good and important uses for generative AI. This is not one of them. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
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Robot book club
Reading books with an AI partner
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You want to know what I'm *never* going to do? Watch a ten minute NYTs "editorial" interview that the columnist could have written into a 600-word column that would have taken me less than 45 seconds to scan.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Our neighbors down the street are having a massive quinceañera with a full mariachi band and my husband keeps walking by to see if he can get invited in for a piece of cake. 🍰 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The most noticeable thing about the prevalent use of AI in college for me is that everything students produce is SO boring to read. Same ideas, no weird takes, no hot takes, just drab, flat and dull ideas. Grading has never been exciting, but now it's just lame and disappointing.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I think the hardest part of writing a book is thinking about the same thing for months and months on end and not having the intellectual energy to engage with ideas beyond your own work/sources/writing. I'm mentally exhausted, but the end is in sight (October 31 deadline 🎃👻).
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please people, no more Odyssey hot takes. It's too much already.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Vietnamese nail lady just gave me a grocery bag full of fresh basil (16 cups+) so I'm going to get some parmesan and I'm going to batch out pesto. We have fresh tomatoes, so we are likely having bruschetta for dinner all week. 😋 😊 🌿 😎
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Feels like 124. It's legit hot today in Northwest Arkansas.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats to Tobie Meyer-Fong, who just got elected to be the new President of the American Historical Association. She's a bad-ass Qing historian, and I'm proud to know her! www.historians.org/perspectives...
historians.org
2026 AHA Election Results – AHA
The AHA is pleased to announce results of the 2026 balloting for officers and committee members.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The only acceptable use of AI:
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
How many more grandmas will be sacrificed for paper extensions in my online summer class? Two have already been taken from us and we are only in week two. 🪦⚰️👵
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Given the recent interest in the Islamic Republic of Japan, it might be a good time to remind folks that I wrote a book about Islam and the Japanese Empire: @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/979889086031...
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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan’s challenges to Chinese nation-building...
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I love when people write such insightful and thoughtful marginalia. In pen, no less.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Haidilao for the win.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Husband took me to B&N and got me two books on my summer reading list. 😊📕😊
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑 nom nom. Delivery from Georgia.
Plate of fresh Georgia peaches.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Full pawstration.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It happened. I bought my first pair of Eileen Fisher pants (on sale). I'm officially old.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Luxembourg City is sorta like if Zurich and Quebec City had a baby.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is Benji. He’s the official mascot of the U of A Rome Center. 1000xs better than a hog.
Brown dachshund on a cobblestone road wearing a red halter
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Heading to Taormina and Rome for work (planning for an "Islamic Mediterranean" study abroad course in Sicily and meetings at our UA Rome Center). Then the hubs is meeting me in Rome for end of Giro d'Italia next Sunday. After that, we head to Belgium for a vacay. 🇮🇹🇧🇪🇱🇺🇫🇷 Whooooo!
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our panel "Creative Citizenship and Belonging In the People’s Republic of China: Contesting the Idea of “Chineseness” In the 1940s and 1950s," was accepted to the program for the American Historical Association in NOLA 01/27! Whooo! @emilymatson.bsky.social
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Zhou Bo, a retired army colonel and a senior fellow at Tsinghua University, said: “On Iran, China definitely wants to help but I read what Rubio said: he actually seems to shift the burden to the Chinese side. In China, we have a saying: it is like, ‘Why should I clean your shit?’” Like: 给别人擦屁股??
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's official: I've signed a book contract with UNC Press for the publication of my biography of Bai Chongxi. It will also be Open Access. Should be out in Spring 2028. Now I just have to finish writing the thing by October! 🕺💃🥳
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I hooded my first PhD student. His dad came from Xi’an for the ceremony. 🥰☺️🎓🎓🎓
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I have an MOU for my work distribution between the Department of History and the International and Global Studies Program. They use them because they are not legally binding, and really don't mean anything.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's Summer 2005 on repeat. We're going to see Modest Mouse and Death Cab For Cutie this summer...
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just cobbled together funding to support the OA publication of my book about Bai Chongxi. I asked one of the Distinguished Profs in my department who has a ~ridiculous~ research budget to chip in, and he threw $5K my way. Always ask, people. Always ask.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Whenever I'm in the depths of writing, I spend most of the day thinking that everything I'm writing is total shit. Then, when I reread it the next day, I'm generally like "Hmmm..this isn't all terrible." What's that about?
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My friend Esther just published this book about her grandfather Hu Zongnan. She just sent me a copy because there are all these awesome photos she’s colorized of Bai and Hu together. 🤓🥰 coffee table book for super nerds!
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hanging with the poochies in Bella Vista for a few days while the house gets painted.
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Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A weekly conversation I have with my husband:
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