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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So proud of the newly minted Dr. Lucas Azambuja, who defended his fantastic JHU sociology dissertation today that explains why fractions of the Brazilian capitalist classes aligned and de-aligned over Bolsonarismo. He starts a postdoc at Tulane very soon - New Orleans, look out!

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Grateful to @bradlander.bsky.social for coming out to stand in solidarity with NYC’s organized & fighting faculty - including those under attack from their own admin at the New School - on this May Day ✊

Hundreds of union members gather outside the New School in New York for May Day

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Trying not to be totally gutted by this week’s retirements of both Steve Hahn and Barbara Weinstein, two of the best mentors and colleagues I could imagine. Some massive shoes to fill at NYU in their wake.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New York! We're bringing @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social to NYU to talk about his new book on self-determination - April 14 at 4:30pm. All are welcome - registration/info here: www.nysean.org/events/the-f...

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

A picture with Christy Thornton, Francesca Fiorentini, and Cori Bush

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Your weekend long read: Local cops and their union bosses have welcomed - and in some cases invited - Trump’s federal takeovers of US cities. @stschrader1.bsky.social traces this alarming synthesis of local & federal power for The New York Review archive.is/G1Bnh

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org

Call for Papers 51st Annual Meeting of the Social Sciences History Association Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia – November 19th-22nd, 2026 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026 Decentering Modernity Since the inception of social science disciplines in the nineteenth century, modernity has been viewed as a unique phenomenon originating in the West and radiating to the rest of the world. This understanding of modernity has served as the foundation of modern social sciences. It has also been embraced by both Western imperialists, who believed in their “civilizing mission,” and postcolonial nationalist elites striving to implement “modernizing programs” in their new nations. Over the last three decades, social science history has witnessed a flourishing of works that challenge this Western-centric notion of world development. They demonstrate that modernizing processes that have long been assumed to be unique to early modern Europe – such as the rationalization and centralization of the state, marketization of the economy, the rise of new ideologies pursuing individual freedom and political representation, and the transition away from the demographic ancien régime – have been parallel processes across different civilizations in the post-Mongol world. Embedded in diverging cultural idioms and manifesting local variations, the multiple forms of early modernities interacted with one another in the integrated global economy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. As such, the rising domination of the Western form of modernity in the Age of Imperialism is far from a unidirectional imposition of Western institutions, but a constant process of power, resistance, hybridization, and negotiation. In today’s world, we see the center of gravity of capitalist development moving away from traditional Western countries with the emergence of new centers of capital accumulation in the Global East and Global South. While the ongoing democratic backsliding does not spare man…

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Heading up to Boston for our 2025 @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees research conference. This year’s theme is ‘Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms,’ and we have keynotes from Sarah Bellows-Blakely and Joel Suarez.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thursday at NYU Law! No one better to hear from about our current moment than Aziz Rana. Open to the public, but registration required - RSVP here as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New York! Come see Dr. Andrew Paxman in conversation Columbia Journalism's Judith Matloff about his new book Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s - Tues 11/11 at 5:30pm at NYU. Open to the public, registration required: forms.gle/oq1qoS8RrDZQ...

Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s

(UNC Press, 2025)

with the author Andrew Paxman, CIDE, Mexico City
and Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism School
moderated by Christy Thornton, NYU

November 11 2025, 5:30 – 7pm
53 Washington Sq South, Room 701
RSVP required: https://bit.ly/PaxmanNYU

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.

Abstract of an article titled "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" by Christy Thornton in the Journal of Global History, that reads: Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

GALLATIN HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE SPEAKER SERIES ON LAW, AUTHORITARIANISM AND DISSENT: POLICING AND COUNTERINSURGENCY

Chenjerai Kumanyika (New York University), Stuart Schrader (John Hopkins Univerisity), Christina Heatherton (Trinity College)

THURSDAY, OCT 30 2025
IN-PERSON EVENT
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Center
255 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Flyer for MARILYN B. YOUNG
MEMORIAL LECTURE &
WELCOME RECEPTION
National Security for Imperial
Insecurity: Race and
Counterinsurgency Across
the Pacific
SEPTEMBER 9,
2025
3:00PM LECTURE
4:30PM RECEPTION
KJCC, FIRST FLOOR
53 WASHINGTON
SQUARE SOUTH
KINDLY RSVP BY
SEPTEMBER 3:
Dr. Moon-Ho Jung
Speaker
Dr. Stuart Schrader
Discussan

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We are ready for the march, see y’all in DC

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Today I had my first experience making it through the massive security apparatus and onto this campus I called home for five years, through two degrees, and I have to say - this view might be forever tainted by the experiences of the last year and a half

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Man, this #GreatMigrationsPBS series has been so cool because so many of my friends keep showing up on my TV! Heeyyyyyy @carlygoodman.bsky.social 🫶

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thanks for the heads up @katidoyle.bsky.social that this new CIA document release has multiple mentions of NACLA in the early 70s!

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I was sure that some of the new thread creators were just somehow people with no tech savvy but this guy is a VP for digital products at the NBA? This was an amazing night

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Just returned the proofs for my little roundtable essay in the forthcoming @radhistreview.bsky.social on the historiography of state violence in the "Mexican miracle" - a tribute to a bunch of my very favorite historians, who have shaped my own scholarship so much. In print in January!

A screenshot of the page proofs the first few lines of the essay "State Violence and the Bitter Ends of the Milago Mexicano" by Christy Thornton

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Díme q estás en cdmx sin diciéndomelo

A sign that says ‘capital humano todo barato’

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My fave recent Thanksgiving feast was homemade dal makhani, palak paneer, baingan bharta, and some naan with lots of nigella seeds. We lived above an Indian restaurant that year, I guess it rubbed off?

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Extremely cool Baltimore evening with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social & @jmjafrx.bsky.social in conversation at @redemmas.org about Puerto Rico: A National History. redemmas.org/titles/44238...

Hotel Meléndez-Badillo & Jessica Marie Johnson seated in chairs at Red Emma’s Bookstore in Baltimore

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’ve been researching all the really important questions on the Danish left in 1970, I promise! cc: @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

The Rolling Stones reactionary?
In his article in Politisk Revy number 154, Jan Michaelsen argues, among other things:
1. that contempt for people, especially women, has become the Rolling Stones' trademark.
2. that attacks on the Black Panthers by those in power are racist in nature,
3. that police officers, violence directed at anyone but those in power, perpetual male chauvinism and glorification of drugs throughout the album "Let
4. that the Stones bring together rapists, junkies and the political protesters,
Jan Michaelsen concludes: The Stones prevent young people from having a clear revolutionary attitude.
Cops are criminals

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

The Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine program offers a *fully funded* MA at JHU - w/ an opening this year for a student to work specifically on food waste in the US with the brilliant Dr. Nicole Labruto. Send your students this way! Info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/cast-m/

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Literally the title of this book shipping now

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