Erika Denise Edwards, PhD @prof-edwards.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Who would have thought that my op-ed from 2022" Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black players in the World Cup?" in the WaPost would become the subject of analysis! "La clasificación de la diversidad racial argentina se pone en cuestión." repositorio.unicartagena.edu.co/entities/pub...repositorio.unicartagena.edu.co 000
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDBrooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025 📚💙 #booksky: 🔥 Just dropped on NetGalley: THE CROWN'S SILENCE. For the first time, the British monarchy's deep, centuries-long ties to the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery are exposed in forensic detail. Request now! #TheCrownsSilence #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...netgalley.comThe Crown's SilenceNetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm... 152
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...mellon.orgMellon FoundationThe Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all. 8465274
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDSenator Lydia Edwards @senatorledwards.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Today’s the day! After a year-long journey, our bill (S.224) banning forced broker’s fees finally goes into effect today! 1/2 162
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDACLU @aclu.org · 16/06/2025BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health. 365324898261
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDJim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other. Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss. 114167
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAndy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025When Barack Obama tells universities to use their endowments you *know* it’s possible. 012317
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025And there it is. NEH Faculty Award canceled, along with $30,000 of my salary this year. Guess I'll have to ask for my teaching load back for the fall. 6723756
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDBenjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I can’t get over how grants that were 1) funded by Congress through the appropriation process, and 2) awarded through a rigorous and blind review system, can now be 3) rescinded by unelected and unqualified DOGE bros through a haphazard gutting likely dependent on word searches and GROK. 1019650
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Hearing reports of NEH staff being put on administrative leave (not sure yet how many are impacted). Grantees—remember to use eGMS for all correspondence but that staff may have severe restrictions on access to email & work material. NEH staff—we appreciate you & we’re so sorry this is happening. 12415
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDRebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️ 101240518
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDNatalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 04/04/2025“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant 12945851142
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 04/04/2025Here are some of the things that NEH support has enabled the AHA to do just in the last 5 years 🗃️: 25930
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters. 772244609037
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I hung up my DOGE termination letter near where I’m writing my book, as a reminder that the Humanities matters to a free and open society. Far worse than the end of my NEH grant is the wholesale gutting of the NEH itself, an incalculable loss that we must fight to prevent. 11626160
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/04/2025If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine. 842684
Erika Denise Edwards, PhD @prof-edwards.bsky.social · 04/04/2025NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES NOTICE OF GRANT TERMINATION I knew it was coming, which is why I never announced that I had won the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities for my next book project. But it still hurts! 010
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award, 17461322
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDNatalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Please help us fight for the restoration of NEH funds, @repdangoldman.bsky.social @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social 0258
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 02/04/2025Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGITp2a.coURGENT: Save the NEHI just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here. 2191100
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAlyssa S. #BakerSquad 🏆 @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025URGENT: Save the NEH! 🗃️ As the NYTimes reported, DOGE is targeting the NEH *today* - trying to claw back grant funds and lay off up to 90% of staff. Call your Congressperson today and/or fill out the form below from the National Humanities Alliance! And let's get #SaveTheNEH trending p2a.co/DdtlGITp2a.coURGENT: Save the NEHI just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here. 26438
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDdr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2025If you, like me, are looking for firm details on what’s happened so far at NEH, here’s a list of programs that are marked as discontinued or cancelled on the website. This is a snapshot - I’m sure this the impacts will grow as more cuts unfold throughout the day. #NEH #DigitalHumanities 510985
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.storage.courtlistener.com 272846798
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 12/02/2025AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️historians.orgGrants & Fellowships - AHAAHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a list of purposes that i... 01815
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 12/02/2025And now is the time when we see what companies REALLY gots women’s backs,,, the world is watching 👀 371150183204
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Job Opportunity! The Latin American Studies Department at Davidson College seeks to fill a two-year visiting position in Modern Latin American history. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...h-net.orgH-Net Job Guide 023
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Job Opportunity! Wingate University seeks dynamic, energetic candidates with a demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence for a full-time, tenure-track position in modern Latin American history at the rank of Assistant Professor. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...h-net.orgH-Net Job Guide 022
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDpete52.bsky.social @pete52.bsky.social · 10/02/2025 29275918318817
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Great point. 11627426514338
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Hello, new people :) I'm a historian of slavery and freedom in colonial Mexico with a focus on women's history. I teach classes on sin in Spanish America, the Inquisition, gender, slavery and autobiography, and other early modern topics. I post jobs, events, and history opportunities. My book: 210918
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDAna Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing. 21745136
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This is a part of their “professors are the enemy” bullshit, but the cost of these freezes will extend well beyond them. Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too. 471751465
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDYusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Important: The AAUP released a statement urging universities not to engage in “anticipatory obedience,” which it defined as “acting to comply in advance of any pressure to do so.” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...insidehighered.comAAUP opposes "anticipatory obedience" to Trump, GOPThe American Association of University Professors released a statement Thursday urging universities not to engage in “anticipatory obedience,” which it defined as “acting to comply in advance of any p... 218281
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024As a scholar of white supremacy & Black liberation movements, it's important to me to recall my own family's history supporting slavery & Jim Crow as I do this work. I wrote this piece a few years ago to help me think through how this past both facilitates & informs my research today.activisthistory.comWhite Americans Fail to Address Their Family HistoriesThere is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine. 58639196
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/01/202516 of the 26 Day One executive orders signed by Trump were ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025. Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, testifies before the Senate today as Trump's OMB nominee. Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.levernews.comTrump’s First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He DisavowedAfter distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pages. 20446071574
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDEsther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word. 10340901072
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise. 791242107818
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us. Historians:media.tenor.coma man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood .ALT: a man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood . 311524263
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept. 853585753
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDShay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 18/01/2025My advice is to folks who are feeling deep stress over the political climate. If possible, unplug. Go outside. Physically, go outside and spend some time there, be present with the external world. If possible, connect with people you care about. Be present in the current moment. 1211985366
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDBeth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025An exciting book delivery today! 1329
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDÁngeles Picone @mapicone.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Not only LA is on fire. #Epuyen #Patagonia 1116
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2025This is the least effective argument for a nominee since Roman Hruska: www.npr.org/sections/pol...npr.orgOn This Day In 1970: Hruska Links Judge To 'Mediocre'March 16, 1970: 5747047
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Job Opportunity! The Department of History at New York University invites applications for the Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History. The appointment will be for one year, with the expectation of renewal for up to three years. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...h-net.orgH-Net Job Guide 012
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDCasey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September! 2119528
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2025While we're talking national defense, reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids 933204759
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDJenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2025So I'm a little late with this pic from the AHA of me and the one and only @dgershenowitz.bsky.social at the @uncpress.bsky.social display in the book exhibit. Thanks to @juliagaffield.bsky.social for taking such a great shot, and (as always!) to @sonyabonczek.bsky.social in absentia! ❤️🗃️ 5335
Reposted by Erika Denise Edwards, PhDKaren Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025This book looks excellent! 141
