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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Stepping out in the most expensive outfits we own! Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

Some history profs in our wizard (graduation) robes.

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq

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American Council of Learned Societies Awards 62 ACLS Fellowships

ACLS Fellowships award $3.5 million to scholars in recognition of excellence in humanities and social sciences research

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Fellowship Opportunity! SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply. shear.org/about-us/she...

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SHEAR DEI Research Fellowships – SHEAR

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If you're in NYC on Friday, April 5th, check out this fantastic program at Columbia, Early Modern Women on the Move with leading lights of the field including Merry Wiesner-Hanks, @martinevanelk.bsky.social, and @ninalamal.bsky.social. (and it's free): www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode...

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Early Modern Women on the Move:

Space, Materiality, and Transnationalism

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.

A note from the NEH that summer stipends have been cut

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

‼️Proposals due 3/31: The 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (LACDH) will take place at the University of Puerto Rico from 11/5/25–11/7/25, followed by an online component on the 13th and 14th. More info available here: guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...

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Guides @ UF: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: LACDH Symposium

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It also seems like there is a big opportunity for some country, somewhere (that isn't already sick of foreign students) to expand their English-language degree offerings and attract not just the academics, but the students. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...

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As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities

European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Still looking for someone to talk about their book with us on April 28…

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you/your student are interested in learning more about our FUNDED MA in History, join our information session on Thursday at 12:15 MT. It is hybrid, so you can join us from anywhere in the world! If you are interested, please get in touch and I will send you the link.

poster which reads: "Earn your Master of Arts in History/ Fully-funded, Two-Year Program
Program Benefits: Full-funded GAships; summer research funding; conference travel support; professionalization; access to world-class archives and libraries
Fields of Study: The American West; Early Americas; Environmental History; Public History; Gender History; Global History
Applications due April 1, 2025

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hi Everyone! We have extended our deadline until April 1, so there is still time to apply to our MA program. We have several fully funded spots available. We also provide money for summer research and conference travel. If you have questions, please get in touch. Spread the word!

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Still puzzling over this Valentine my son got. If it's not sloppy, it's sublime.

A Valentine with a picture of a steer, which says "You're utterly awesome".

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It will probably kill me to take control of my 10 million photos, zillion emails, shared calendar, hundreds of docs, etc etc but I'm going to try to quit Google.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I gave a lecture today and included this picture on a slide, so that is my one nod to cultural relevance. Back to 90s-kid jokes no one gets for the rest of the semester.

Image from Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show, depicting dancers in red, white, and blue forming an American flag.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I just received the reader's reports for my book and they are *so* helpful. Our profession relies on a lot of behind-the-scenes, anonymous labor and I am filled with deep gratitude for the many people who took time to engage with my work in the past several months.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Talking a little about empathy in Historical Methods today, and bringing in this quote, used as an epigraph in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light. It gets me every time.

Image of a quote from a book: "Brother men, you who live after us, Do not harden your hearts against us." -François Villon

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you have (or are) a student interested in pursuing grad school in History, the University of Wyoming has a funded MA! We do not require the GRE and applications are due March 1. I am happy to answer any questions. More on applying here: www.uwyo.edu/history/grad...

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Applying to M.A. in History

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

14 degrees at 10am on the first day of "spring" semester

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

'We welcome applications from anyone with relevant lived or academic experience who can demonstrate a commitment and ability to undertake independent research.'

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Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich

Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

One month left to submit an essay for inclusion in the first of two double issues of the redesigned HLQ, to be published in September 2025. The call for submissions is attached, and also available here. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou... Please share!

Photo of a call for submissions. Text is as follows:

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.

HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.

HLQ invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.

https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/huntington-library-quarterly/

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I am once again complaining about seeing end-of-year lists when the year is not over yet. Some truly epic works debuted in the second half of December (me). 💅

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Great post if, like me, you're teaching a historical methods class in the spring!

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Is it strictly necessary for all of these universities to make applications (and letters of rec) due on the Sunday after Thanksgiving?

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you can imagine a thing that might be on my schedule, it is on my schedule this week 🙃

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Print culture this week! Just adding the brilliant new '100 Ballads' to my seminar resources: the bestselling songs of 17th-century England, richly contextualised & even performed! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.100ballads.org

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100 Ballads

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My spiciest take that absolutely no one is interested in is that the new film adaptation of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is ~85% good but ultimately fails to capture the book's message of unequivocal compassion for all.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

But now what will I do with the very terrible, barely legible pictures I took of the microfilm?? 🙃

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Rijksmuseum has launched its new Data Services portal, offering "a treasure trove" of data about its collections: Metadata for 800,000 objects High-resolution photographs of 600,000 collection objects 320,000 bibliographic records 160,000 records for people & institutions 70,000 thesaurus terms

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Rijksmuseum Data Services | Rijksmuseum Data Services

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We can’t wait to see you all at #nacbs2024 in just 2 days! Take a peek at the program for the 2024 NACBS in Denver at www.nacbs.org/conference.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Are any of you lovely people going to be at the #NACBS this weekend? I'll be chairing a panel on the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean in that coveted slot, the last panel on Sunday! Would love to see some of you there.

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Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I'm compiling a starter pack for 'Histories of Exploration & Travel Writing' 🧭 - If you'd like me to add (or remove) you from this list, please let me know. 🗃️ go.bsky.app/BRpcSXX

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello to my new followers, who mostly seem to be real humans! I'm a historian of the 17th Century Americas, especially connections between the Caribbean and N. America. I'm into plants, maps, failed colonies, and work with English, Dutch, Spanish, and French sources.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

ONLY COMPUTER'S SHOULD BE COMPUTER'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKALETON TRYEN TO DRIVE AND THERE CAR COMPUTER IS BLEEPEN AND POPPING UP MESAGES AND DOING ALL KIND'S OF SHIT JUST LET ME DRIVE!! I MEAN LET THE SKELATON DRIVE!!!! AND DA TEXT SAYS "I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY CAR, I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY REFRIDGERATOR, I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY THERMOSTAT,I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY TELEVISON,I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY EXERCICE BIKE, I DONT WANT A COMPUTER IN MY LIGHT BULB'S" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I sent off my book manuscript😬

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

My kids chose matching "Wecend Wear" outfits (on Wednesday night, no less), laid them out stylishly, and then made a sign "so no one would mess it up" before the weekend. This is what my children are like.

Two sets of children's outfits: a pair of matching shirts, with matching dresses and bows laid on top. A sign written by a child that says "wecend wear"

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Help me out, historians: I swear I have read an essay defending biography as a method of writing history, but I can't find something like it. Suggestions?

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Crosses were not a common motif on New England gravestones before the 19th century, when Catholic immigrants brought their cross-iconography traditions to NE graveyards. Big, luscious boobs, however, were actually a very common symbol on 18th-century gravestones — a metaphor for the two testaments.

small slate gravestones with a cross and IHS above a busty winged effigy
epitaph:
James Slaven
son of Patrick and Ann Slaven, died May 4, 1833, aged 19 month

detail of the same stone, focused on the angel with melon-sized boobs

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

It's the first day of class here at UW! I'm teaching Colonial America, A Secret History of Science, and US History to 1865. They are all full, so you will probably find me lying on the floor of my office by Friday.

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

My mom texted me a picture of the Wyoming delegation at the DNC (from her TV). I texted back to say I knew three of the eight in the picture, and two of those from my classes. 😂

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Very excited for our new study abroad class!

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

CALL FOR NEXT YEAR'S @eseh.bsky.social IS OUT! ESEH Conference 2025 – Climate Histories 18-22 August 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden eseh.org/cfp-13th-bie... Deadline: 31 October 2024 #envhist 🌿

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CfP: 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference – European Society for Environmental History

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

I'm trying to buy Hamilton tickets for Denver and I am 6,223 in line. I am surprised there is still this much interest in it. Maybe I should teach my class on it again?

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Another job! We are also hiring a historian of Wyoming and the US West. It's at the assistant level, but a named professorship with a *2:1* teaching load. If you have any questions, please get in touch! eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Asst Professor - Wyoming and the American West - History

The University of Wyoming invites diverse applicants to consider our employment opportunities. We are also especially interested in candidates who have experience working with diverse populations and/...

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