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Religious Studies prof at University of Northern Iowa. Law, Public Education, National Security. Book on CIA & American religion. Probably drinking coffee. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/c… Views are my own

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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Exciting update from our program, where @burnidge.bsky.social is going great work iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/05/26/u...
iowacapitaldispatch.com
University of Northern Iowa to lead collaborative religious studies initiative • Iowa Capital Dispatch
UNI professor Cara Burnidge will lead a collaborative religious studies initiative with University of Iowa and Iowa State University faculty.
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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In this thread, Zach is getting at the fundamental tension of higher education: many (not all) students are coming to us for a credential. Our job is to get them to learn certain skills and ways of thinking before we give them that credential. This leads to an unfortunate tension.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
You know about the resources posted at the REL Toolbox? Now managed by @seedpods.bsky.social, the site has grown. Go see. Anyone leading a Dept in the Humanities will find it helpful. reltoolbox.ua.edu
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Looking forward to talking with @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social about our work reimagining Religious Studies & the Humanities at UNI. April 29 at 3pm ET. Registration link: aarweb.org/event/strate...
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It’s not a grand narrative (and doesn’t try to be), but FWIW here’s a fresh take on the Dixie Mission: press.georgetown.edu/Book/Mission...
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Mission to Mao
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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This "Into the Stacks" feature was very fun to contribute to, in large part because it gave me a chance to highlight all of the wonderful work that @shafrhistorians.bsky.social have been doing in the past few decades to integrate religion more holistically into the study of U.S. foreign relations. 🗃️
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
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UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures
University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking forward to this @naasr.bsky.social conversation with @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social & Leslie Dorrough Smith on Thursday. Interested in the future of Religious Studies & the Humanities? I hope you'll join us.
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“Politics is fully immersed in its postliterate era, and political violence, too, has become illegible.”
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/12/2025
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today? @adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️ uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
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How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA - UNC Press Blog
The following is a guest blog post by Adrienne Krone, author of Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States which is now available wherever books are sold. ...
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I’ve gone down a Yoder-related rabbit hole on this lately, but I haven’t seen much. Would be very curious what others suggest.
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
UNI is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction focused on Religious Ethics. This is a promotable, renewable position. Happy to answer questions! uni.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UNI/job/Main... #acrel #aar #sbl
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Assistant Professor of Instruction - Religious Ethics
If you are a current University of Northern Iowa employee and would like to apply for this position, login to UNI Works and type “Find Jobs” in the search bar to view and apply for open positions. Ful...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Good tips and advice here for the inevitable last minute syllabus preps, from @burnidge.bsky.social
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Back to School Helps
Cara Burnidge shares four tools she likes to make syllabus prep faster, smarter, and more student-centered
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is good. The parrot line is a nice touch!
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Was just talking with a colleague about this. It is…interesting… that more haven’t made that move
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Charlie McCrary @mccraryc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Does anyone have examples of colleges or universities advertising themselves as AI-free or, better, anti-AI?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The thing is, by refusing to truly engage with the public and to support/value scholars who do, we cede the public understanding of history to these 'history buffs,' - and at the same time, contribute to the decline of our field, as the public doesn't know what we *do* that they should pay for.
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Useful thread on Mahmoud v. Taylor from @scribnerumcp.bsky.social.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote. In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina 
(1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records
 (last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/
 show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful 
title which a person has to anything”).
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
amazing q&a with paul krugman
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I’m so sorry to hear this. I heard great things about the union when I was doing my grad work there. Crossing my fingers for you all.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"The NHGRI Communications Office, and with it the History of Genomics Program, was completely disbanded on April 2nd. My contractual position was finally terminated on April 28th." The first piece in our series "The Losses"
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The Losses: The History of Genomics Program
The archive my colleagues and I have built and maintained since 2012 is inaccessible.
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It's the official publication day for the 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights!! New preface sets it in the context of the contemporary global Black Lives Matter movement. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Cold War Civil Rights
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/06/2025
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs @zachfb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
military.com
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Good odds that June 2025 goes down as a fundamental turning point in American civil-military norms longer term (for several reasons).
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
These paragraphs are…in tension
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
OSU requiring “AI fluency” within every major.
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Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent …
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Foolish and counterproductive—even on the terms set by the selective austerity hawks. $258 million is a drop in the bucket. Plus, an HIV vaccine would not only save countless lives at home and abroad; it would also make HIV prevention more effective and less costly in the long run.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement. Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
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Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools. We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly. And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Your “centering” JAAR article. It was great!
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We read two essays by @mjcressler.bsky.social in my “Religion and Race” class this semester, and here he is going for the hat trick. Check it out!
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🤦‍♂️ thanks!
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"If the court allows churches to operate religious charter schools, the public education system, as Americans know it, will take on an entirely new face and set of financial challenges."
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mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I really appreciate all the writing you're doing on this, especially for a general audience. Sharing with students in my "Religion & Public Schools" course.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Sunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/05/2025
a world with poor writers is a world with poor thinkers
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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“food was one of the top 10 causes of death in the 19th century. That's not true today. …These rules have made us safer, so we don't wanna undo them. We don’t have to repeat every mistake we’ve ever made.”
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today is the official publication day of *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*! Much gratitude to family, friends, students, and colleagues who engaged the project, and to librarians and foundations for support in the research process.
Cover of Judith Weisenfeld, *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake.*
30% discount from NYU Press with the code NYUAU30.
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