Imagine if other university presidents had responded like this to student protests over the last few weeks.

I'm excited to attend Latin American Studies Association (LASA) this year in Bogotá. If you have a book project to pitch, or just want to chat about your research, please schedule a meeting with me here! Hasta pronto! Vanderbilt University Press

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Chancellor on nightly PBS NewsHour about protests and Athena on the final Jeopardy!. Nashville needs to do less right now. There are no safe havens.

Love a little flex of quiet power.

For trans visibility week, I just gave some more money to the ACLU, who successfully fought back another ignorant TN anti-trans bathroom bill. This one got killed in committee, which means even bigots are starting to read the room. Onward.

I just received an email response to a query addressed to Lady Gianna, and no one can tell me anything for the rest of the day.

It's go time in the exhibit hall at @aaihs. Come see University Press of Florida UVA Press WVU Press UNC Press LSU Press Illinois Press Penn Press University of South Carolina Press Univ Press of MS and their beautiful Af-Am titles.

Great first day at AAIHS. Didn't know I would have a daylight savings change on the return leg, but now I am even happier that I asked for late checkout.

Nobody puts baby in the corner. The books look fabulous. All setup for Day 1 of AAIHS.

And I will have several copies this weekend at AAIHS with a nice discount.

About to talk to some MA students at Dartmouth about scholarly publishing. I made sure to eat dinner first so I wouldn't sound more peckish than I already do.

T minus one week until the Tana French novel hits. I'm praying it comes before my flight(s) to AAIHS in Charlottesville next Thursday. A gal can hope.

It is estimated that there are some 149 Black-owned bookstores in the US—((prob more)). This is only about 6% of the 2,500 independent bookstores in the country. How many of our cousins have you visited? oprahdaily.com/entertainment/…

I don't think Congress is going to have a strong case to make when they update their quarterly OKRs.

Don't forget to register for the #AAIHS2024 conference! With the very timely theme of reparations, this year's conference will feature Ta-Nehisi Coates and Robin Rue Simmons, and a scintillating schedule of conference panels! More here: conference.aaihs.org

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Worst part of being snowbound in the house this week is the titles on hold at the library languishing in wait for me. My TBR pile is dangerously short. I've never encountered this problem before and it's sending me into anxiety spirals. There's always rereading I suppose.

Fund public schools, not voucher scams. Expand Medicaid, not LGBTQ hate. Stop dangerous people from getting guns, not women from getting healthcare.