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Sarah Mass

@sarahmmass.bsky.social
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Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Photographing the Calder Valley: or social history at the “mouth of hell”. Matthew Hilton with Aditya Chakrabortty 19 November 2026, 6pm, Queen Mary University, London E1 PhotographingCalderValley.eventbrite.co.uk @qmcbs.bsky.social
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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tufts University’s Environmental Studies Program has three openings this year. These are all full time non-tenure track teaching positions (although the PoP position is a bit different than the other two). Full time teaching faculty are unionized (SEIU) at Tufts University. Ads below:
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026
Got the student paper to quote my line that university AI initiatives are like kindergartners playing soccer, all swarming after the ball in the least effective possible form of coordination: www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2026...
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Hey Claude, how is Tufts handling this AI thing? - The Tufts Daily
Like many others, I spent the first few weeks of this summer searching "internship" on LinkedIn jobs and Handshake, praying that there would be any position that required zero experience, or whatever ...
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We are running two (!) TT/tenured searches this year. I am not on either committee, but happy to answer questions about working at Tufts. The first is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History apply.interfolio.com/191613
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We are running two (!) TT/tenured searches this year. I am not on either committee, but happy to answer questions about working at Tufts. The first is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History apply.interfolio.com/191613
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wonderful to see this in print. A perceptive and generous review of what was a true labor of love for all of us.
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Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A beautiful morning for a Cambridge run and picking up @hbuxton.bsky.social’s book from @portersqbooks.bsky.social! Congrats, friend!
A hand holding the book Disabled Empire by Hilary Buxton
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A few ideas for persuading the Scots to stay in Boston: - Create single payer healthcare in Massachusetts - End the liquor license cap and the happy hour ban - Create more cross-country walking paths (I can help) - More art, culture, and sport festivals in/around Boston What else?
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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's an honour to be shortlisted for an Orwell Prize for my article in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social last year about my own experiences of homelessness. Thanks to @orwellprize.bsky.social and @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social You can read the piece here: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm so delighted to see this out in the world, its the product of years of work and thought - maybe the hardest thing I've written, and made possible by numerous friends and readers. Its paywalled, but of course drop me a line if you need help with access. In the article I try and do three things:
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@umich.edu alums: let your voice ring docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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UM Alums - 2026 Spring Commencement
If you’re an alum of the University of Michigan, please sign the letter by clicking on this link to open a form. https://forms.gle/g5LZcE8bGGKZkG9J6 May 4, 2026 Dear President Grasso, Provost McCau...
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Urban historians, what are your favorite works that focus on one street or one site? I've already got Jerry White and @tricksterprince.bsky.social. No geographic or temporal parameters, this is to help a thesis student with her lit review. @samwetherell.bsky.social @urbanhistory.bsky.social
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
assumed this was a sophisticated april fools at first
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...
Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New ”Ireland is a colony” example just dropped.
The Monaghan countryside preserves its tropical demeanor even in the coldest months of the year. It can bring an infusion of Caribbean colours to even the most restrained of palettes.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/02/2026
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
Dear Ms. Wolfe,
Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time.
To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot.
Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms.
Br. in Opp. 55-57.
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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
On Renee; www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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American shot dead by Ice agent remembered for ‘formative years’ in Northern Ireland
Renée Nicole Good took part in Christian youth missions to Northern Ireland as a teenager
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/12/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Nephew approved. @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social @petermandler.bsky.social
A boy reads The Modern British City book
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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'm very proud of this book: it has a wonderful array of work by many of my favourite historians, which cumulatively makes the pitch for understanding modern British History through the lens of the urban. Lund Humphries have done a wonderful production job, & it is a big beautiful book. Buy it now!
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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Launch event for the Modern British City at @c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... Do come! The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
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Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
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Jeremy Hammett @jeremyhammett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Y’all if they’re marching in The Woodlands and Marble Falls that means a shit load more than marches in DC, NYC, and Boston.
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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"But fueling Jewish studies on the fumes of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education is not a win. It’s a trap, and one we fear will bring ill consequences to our field, our universities, and American Jews." From @lilacb.bsky.social, Kate Rosenblatt, and me.
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Jewish-Studies Scholars, Beware: Trump’s Deal Will Corrupt You
We must all resist being turned into court Jews.
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 17/07/2025
On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Modern British City 1945-2000 is out on November 28th, and is available for pre-order from ‪@lhartbooks.bsky.social‬: www.lundhumphries.com/products/the....
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Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My brilliant thesis student! Congrats, Maeve 🍾
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Historians for Trans Rights - open letter, please sign - you don’t have to be a UK based historian to sign the letter #allyship #solidarity docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am a proud Tufts University alum, proud parent of a current Tufts student., a proud American & a proud Jew. This morning, I sent this letter to the Tufts President and the Board of Trustees. More than 100 parents and alumni have signed on. cc: @dandrezner.bsky.social @amyspitalnick.bsky.social
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Her office opens at 9am - let's jam those phone lines, folks, let's demand to know when she will be denouncing these federal kidnappings and this brazen attack on our neighbors, our students, our school, and our state. MA isn't a sanctuary state? We're gonna make it one.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
An interesting report on the new Sunday opening of the Stornoway Tesco by @everebecca.bsky.social, which makes the case that it's community and workers' leisure, not simply religion which is at stake. Stornoway is better understood as part of changes that have impacted all of us.
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‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening
The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trend
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