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Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times! You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-lives...
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Linked Lives: Film, Poetry, and Portraits with the National Gallery – Colonial Networks
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And there is much more to say in my book, The Merchant Houses of Mocha, which covers the 17th and 18th C heyday of that port city uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very ...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
☕ For those following recent developments in the Red Sea @nytimes.com takes us back further in time. I got to talk about why Mokha is and is not really a coffee port and why these topics are so vital to understanding the world that we live in today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...
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Why Mokha, Historic Port That Shaped the Coffee Trade, Is a Prize in Yemen’s War (Gift Article)
A strategic location on the Red Sea afforded the city centuries of trading dominance — and makes it a coveted target in today’s fighting in the Middle East.
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Probably not
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
unmurmuring?
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our exhibition research process captured in a comic! Visit @gettymuseum.bsky.social for the full story of a wartime art loss soon to be returned to its rightful home. The exhibition, Lost. Found. Returned, is on view until October 18, 2026. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition
The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🇰🇷 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 🇰🇷
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This new Smarthistory video provides a preview of the new exhibition, "Lost.Found.Returned," opening at the Getty Research Institute next week! www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition
The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Go Korea!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
That’s great news! Congratulations!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This one is extraordinary - thanks for sharing. Do you know the collection?
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...
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Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA
Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Although it's less relevant for the programs that you treated, we also looked at seniority. Many of the Harvard awardees in the group were predocs and recent postdocs, who eventually went on to be employed elsewhere.
Bar graph in purple and green, showing career stage of grant recipients, according to institutional affiliation.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We'd be very happy talk to you! Our study also identified 8 art history cold spots in the United States. No scholars affiliated with institutions in Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Wyoming were ever awarded by the 4 programs that we looked at.
Map of United States that shows the affiliation locations of art history scholar grant recipients, with blue dots of varying size and intensity. Note concentration in California and New York.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There's an interactive set of visualizations, hosted by the Association for Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH), but they are only viewable on desktop (sorry!): www.ariah.info/news-opportu...
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Scholars Data Project ◈ ARIAH ◈ Association of Research Institutes in Art History
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We also reconciled all of the institutions with Wikidata, for consistency, and published the institutional affiliation dataset for reuse and reproducibility, so that this data can be compared across fellowships and fields: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Here's an article which summarizes the findings: histphil.org/2025/09/08/t...
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Taking the Long View: Gauging the Impact of Residential Fellowships in Art History over the Decades
Editors’ Note: Nancy Um and Matthew Westerby introduce findings from the Scholars Data Project, hosted by the Association of Research Institutes in Art History, on residential fellowships spo…
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Amazing work. With @qwesterby.bsky.social + Lidia Ferrara, we did the same for art history fellowships. Smaller total (~4000), but similar results: Harvard,Yale,Columbia,Berkeley at top. Also tracked by decade, which showed smaller schools on an upward funding trajectory: Emory, SantaBarbara, Pitt.
Eight bar charts which show awarded scholar counts by institution, including Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, UT Austin, Pittsburgh, Emory, and UCSB.
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.
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Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14)
Job Opening: Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Great to see the Guerilla Girls back @gettymuseum.bsky.social today!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It also feels like a movie trailer.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thank you for hosting us so generously! It was a lovely escape from CAA! Can’t wait to see your upcoming exhibition about printing on cloth!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thank you for this terrific article - I will now deploy the terms derived, enhanced and aggregated to think about the various modalities of the datasets that I am wrestling with!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I totally bombed this one
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Too bad that you can't join us at this event but I hope you can come see the exhibition! It's up until April 12, 2026 and full of amazing insights from the Guerrilla Girls archive. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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How to Be a Guerrilla Girl | Getty Exhibitions
Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in th...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is happening tomorrow @gettymuseum.bsky.social - so excited! www.getty.edu/calendar/gue...
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In Conversation: The Guerrilla Girls and Roxane Gay | Getty Events
Iconic feminist voices explore the intersections of activism, protest, and creative expression
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
If you can't make the Jan 17 event featuring Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social at Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social you can still visit the terrific exhibition "How to Be a Guerilla Girl," at the Getty Research Institute thru April 2026. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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How to Be a Guerrilla Girl | Getty Exhibitions
Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in th...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... #ArtHistory
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A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Dave Eggers provides some good background on one of the main protagonists of the Yemeni American coffee revival: daveeggers.net/monkofmokha
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Monk of Mokha
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Because it’s back in the news I am reposting this 🧵 about Pantone’s 2025 color of the year. Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩 No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
Swatch of white with a label (in another shade of white) that reads Pantone 11-4201 TCX Cloud Dancer.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
To GLAM colleagues: Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Getty Vocabularies Survey
We're looking to improve the Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) and would appreciate your feedback.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year! @gettymuseum.bsky.social @apollo-magazine.com apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
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Digital Innovation of the Year
The Getty Provenance Index is the winner of Apollo’s 2025 Digital Innovation of the Year award
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/10]
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you for reading!!!!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Thank you so much for the kind words and for slogging through the long bits about coins and their details! Painful but (I hope) worth it!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Thank you!!! Let me know what the students think!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It deploys textual, archaeological & numismatic evidence to make the case for tangible material entanglements between the Red Sea & colonial North America & to explore the obscured lives of those enslaved from Madagascar in the 1690s. MAP: indianoceanexchanges.com/coin/mvvmap....
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research. www.esteticas.unam.mx
White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025Mural painting by Siquieros in the Collin de San Idelfonso in Mexico City representing a dramatic winged figureMosaic facade of the Central library on the historic campus of UNAM in Mexico CityPre-Colombian stone carving seen from above at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Yes! I’ll DM you to make the connection!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Very interesting - my colleague in conservation at Getty has worked on this topic. Do you know Arlen?
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The terms 'lodge' or 'factory' make the establishments seem formal or structurally distinct from other bldg types. Sometimes they were purpose built, but often they were provisional. On this one, I'll boost an old article of mine from a different ocean. indianoceanexchanges.com/pubs/JSAHPub...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I love this thread! Art historians like @marselykehoe.bsky.social to the rescue! On the lodge ?, don't know specifically about Cochin, but it was common for a company/merchant to rent an ordinary house as trade base an in Indian Ocean port, especially before settling more formal trade agreements.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Here it is - still there, just covered up - for the solstice in 2023
Getty Research Institute L3 level on the occasion of the summer solstice 2023. Overlooking what used to be an installation project by Andy Goldsworthy
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!
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