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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music

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American Studies @ Boston University @americanstudiesbu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Congratulations to Meghan Townes, recipient of the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Ceramics Fellowship at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem! @meghantownes.bsky.social

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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American Studies @ Boston University @americanstudiesbu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Boston University American Studies program (formerly American and New England Studies). Happy to be here! Visit our site for more info: www.bu.edu/amnesp/

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American & New England Studies Program

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Ampersand: An American Studies Journal @ampersandjournalbu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

For our next issue, Ampersand solicits papers on rupturing, deconstructing, and recreating boundaries of assumed forms within American Studies. We encourage a variety of topics and formats and prioritize the work of emerging scholars. Find out more and submit by 4/1 at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

One of the few signatures I've come across in research that made me squeak a little

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

Screen shot, which reads, As required by the Administration’s Executive Orders, NEH awards may not be used for the following purposes: promotion of gender ideology;
promotion of discriminatory equity ideology;
support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities; or
environmental justice initiatives or activities.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/02/2025

An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’

Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What you need to understand about the Boston suburbs is that every neighborhood has a dad who will happily clear all the sidewalks with his Toro snowblower the morning after a storm, dressed in nothing more than sweatpants and a high school wrestling team hoodie.

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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Many years ago in NoVA, I passed a burgundy van absolutely covered in Washington football stickers, driven by a little old lady in a veil, with a license plate that read “Nun4You.” All I can say is, Sister, I hope you’re watching this game

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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Missed this when it was published, but enjoy this brief snapshot from my summer. wilder.vcu.edu/news-and-eve...

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NEH Story - L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs - Virginia Commonwealth University

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Ampersand: An American Studies Journal @ampersandjournalbu.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: @meghantownes.bsky.social juggles the scholarly and the personal in the story of how one small-town Alabama high school band came to march for JFK’s inauguration, largely due to the noisy organizing of Townes’s grandmother. Read it now at the link in bio!

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Meghan Townes @meghantownes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Follow my program’s online journal, which just joined Bluesky! A new issue is out now (including a piece by me)

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