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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영

@parhee.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/c…

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 9h
I'll have to be vague on the details, but I've been sad to see and hear how the Vanderbilt report is being used opportunistically by people who never cared for humanities research to begin with to begin "debates" about the "state" of the humanities.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It really should tell us something how many of these institutions will tolerate abuse, but not activism.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Academic freedom cannot survive in a world in which “financial exigency” are magic words. This is the fight of the next decade.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026
The "declining majors and enrollments" anxiety is downstream from underinvestment in the research infrastructure of the humanities. Perversely, the obsessive focus on this (see the New Yorker's "Decline of the English Major") really distracts from the underlying issue, which is research investment.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The people behind this letter to the AHA are looking for more Europe-based academics to sign. If you support Palestine, please add your name! www.usscholarsspeak.org
usscholarsspeak.org
US Scholars Speak
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can't wait to host @nathankhensley.bsky.social here at UIUC next week! Come through Champaign-Urbana-ites: next Wednesday 9/23 4pm in Levis 210!
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I concur that you would have excellent colleagues and your office would be down the hall from me (unclear if that’s a perk or not though).
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow (September 9) at 6:00 pm, celebrate the launch of @kateclancy.bsky.social's book, Pregnancy Interrupted, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign! Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk. Learn more about this free, in-person event: buff.ly/t4bRh80
Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End by Kate Clancy. Book launch event Wednesday September 9, 6-7:30 pm, University YMCA, Wright St Champaign. Kate Clancy in conversation with Julie Laut. With thanks to co-sponsors: UC Reproductive Justice, UIUC Anthropology.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Solidarity with Auburn:
actionnetwork.org
Declaration of Concern Regarding the Auburn University Board of Trustees’ June 5th Actions
The upper administration of Auburn University has repeatedly insisted that only a small minority of people is dissatisfied with the actions of the Board of Trustees on June 5, 2026. As evidence, they ...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/08/2026
Kind of hard for a professional organization to argue that history is integral to democracy when it goes to lengths to quash democracy within its own membership. And this isn't what I want my members dues to be used for. I suspect many will feel the same. 🗃️
If the AHA leadership continues to heed that advice, its members can expect further silencing of their voices within the organization. In addition to recommending that the AHA frame the historical profession as an arm of the “national security” apparatus, Thorn Run has told its leadership that it should reroute “all future requests for public statements,” “all member concerns regarding conflict zones,” and “all concerns regarding historians in conflict zones” to a leadership committee, so that it can contain and control “out-of-scope debates.” The aim, in other words, is to “utilize the January 2026 veto as a safe harbor precedent to prevent future mission-creep” by shifting from vetoes to a place where institutional silence ensures that there is nothing to veto.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's pub day for PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: THE SCIENCE AND STORIES OF HOW PREGNANCIES REALLY HAPPEN. Woo hoo!!!
news.illinois.edu
Book describes loss as a central feature of pregnancy – News Bureau
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/08/2026
Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/08/2026
Data point for the “cost of humanities research“ discourse:
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Check out my latest essay for Public Books about how Latin American literature thinks about suicide and grief
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Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social, I've got an essay out: Why Are Mexican Students Still Coming to the U.S.? www.zocalopublicsquare.org/why-are-mexi...
zocalopublicsquare.org
Why Are Mexican Students Still Coming to the U.S.? | Essay
Despite the Risks, the Power of an American Degree Has Always Held Weight
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
UIC United Faculty - one union, TT+NTT, representing over 2K workers at Chicago's public research university - starts the semester today, despite being a mature union, despite months of bargaining, without a contract everywhere, management's strategy is to delay+exhaust soon we walk
expired! 
next bargaining session friday
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If anyone is looking for something to do for 3 hours I was riveted by every piece of this Barbara Kopple documentary of slices of life in the Hamptons between Memorial Day and Labor Day 2001. Pre-Botox, some flip phones, New York accents, pre-9/11. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
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THE HAMPTONS a film by BARBARA KOPPLE
A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My mom and I made cucumber and chive kimchi (with a smattering of raw oysters) from vegetables grown by my dad.
Cucumber and chive kimchi
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very happy to continue my family's tradition of Korean home cooking without knowing any proportions for anything and instead leaning on something looking about right and ready to cook.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I was told I cannot use the terms "politics" or "political" in my course description. Ah, yes, architecture, the famously unpolitical art of building...
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A while back I saw some relatable graffiti.
A grey clad building with JSTOR graffitied in black
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you're after some morning listening, I joined 'AntiSocial' on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the history of overseas workers in the NHS: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
bbc.co.uk
BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, Foreign workers in the NHS
Do we need more British-born doctors and nurses?
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Farming with dynamite for US farmers book
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
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Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe
Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.
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Mike Collins - Chair British Association for American Studies @baaschair.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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CRSW / AHRC Doctoral Studentship: Narratives of Enslavement and their Legacies | King's College London
King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“This victory shows that universities should not capitulate to unjust and unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration,” Grundy added. “When we join together and fight, we win.” go AAUP and ACLU!! grow spines, university admin www.thedp.com/article/2026...
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Federal agency drops subpoena seeking list of Jews at Penn
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s July 2025 subpoena garnered widespread criticism on Penn’s campus.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Call 1-844-ABDUL-4-U (1-844-223-8548) to hear more about my platform! Seriously, call it, it's a real number.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y
illinois.csod.com
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society
The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (...
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One of my spring-summer activities has been trying different chocolate chip cookie recipes. This one is my current favorite. www.theguardian.com/food/2020/se...
A chocolate chip cookie on a baking sheet with parchment paper on top
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Now on our blog: read an excerpt from PASTORAL’S END by James Pilgrim. Pilgrim looks at two floods from the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, tracing the roles images played in the response to each and the environmental threads in Renaissance painter Jacobo Bassano’s work. buff.ly/DydpiJw
Graphic with the cover of “Pastoral’s End” and text that says “Now on the blog: read an excerpt from ‘Pastoral’s End’ by James Pilgrim.”A graphic with a quote reading: “But the environmental problems addressed in this book—agricultural sustainability, relations between human beings and animals, deforestation and flooding, the susceptibility of human artifice to decay—were of as much concern to Bassano and his contemporaries as they are to us today.”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
design people! culture sociology people! must-reads and must-cites on class in fashion and interior design?
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Heads up: this proposed rule from OPM affects not just the #sciences, but the National Endowment for the Humanities as well. These changes - to peer review, to staff expertise, to grant terminations - have been already happening for more than a year at our #humanities agency. #NEH
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/07/2026
Another way to put this: most institutions, including most research universities, believe that research support in the way of time is something that faculty must largely buy extramurally based on merit, even if research quality is their most important metric in assessing faculty performance.
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Virtually everyone who cycles on the road has stories about drivers nearly killing them out of carelessness or incompetence and then reacting to being appraised of having nearly killed them by threatening or trying to kill them.
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m ok with this being the reason my travel to the north has become a bit slow and complicated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trains disrupted on UK’s busiest intercity line as cows wander on to tracks
London to Manchester among routes affected after cows blocked west coast mainline for more than three hours
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Please read and share widely this first ever interview between two writers with non-speaking autism. (One is my son, the other is his good friend Woody Brown, a Columbia MFA and the author of the best-selling UPWARD BOUND.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/wood...
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Nonspeakers Speaking Out | Los Angeles Review of Books
Woody Brown discusses his debut novel and the challenges those with nonspeaking autism face today.
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An appreciation for Victorian municipal works, engineering, and iron.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
academic labor conditions are an academic freedom issue and vice versa
In May, the university said it would not reappoint Ms. Adams, a lecturer who did not have tenure, “after a careful review” of her work. Her employment will end this month,
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Mars Plater @marsplater.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hello Bluesky! I took a peek beyond the nineteenth-century for Pride! niche-canada.org/2026/06/19/c...
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Celebrating the Past While Constraining the Present: Queer National Parks in New York City
The National Park Service sanitizes and restructures historic queer spaces like Stonewall and Jacob Riis Park, attempting - and often failing - to suppress modern resistance and joy.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Please check out this book trailer for my student Scot McFarlane's forthcoming THE RIVER THAT MADE TEXAS: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF THE TRINITY. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGO...
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The River That Made Texas: A Forgotten History of the Trinity | Official Book Trailer
YouTube video by Scot McFarlane
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So excited for Black Liverpool: The Real Thing by the incredible Berkeley Sociologist and scouser Stephen Small. At an affordable price too. If anyone wants to review this for @urbanhistory.bsky.social then drop me a line. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I just watched Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev for the first time and I might be a changed person, one riveted and on edge by late-medieval bell making. www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oc...
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Andrei Rublev: the best arthouse film of all time
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966
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Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Congrats Pollyanna! Looking forward to reading this
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