1) I am so excited finally to have caught up on posting about all of the books I was privileged to work on with authors/editors in 2023, that now I want to present a preview of some of the Amsterdam Univ Press titles imminently forthcoming! Here comes a short thread.

🚨 Image fees and UK museums - a breakthrough moment. The system is collapsing. There is now no reason to pay fees for historic artworks (2D) in most cases.

The UK's art history tax is over. Scholars, the public *and museums* will be better off. A 🧵

Honored to see that my article 'Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor' is trending in History & Philosophy of Science! OOIR
Please let me know if you would like to read it but do not have access to the journal.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

This last weekend of the year I want professors, postdocs, and other PhDs who are thinking about leaving academia to know that you can make this happen for yourself without losing what you most love about scholarship, teaching, and research.

I did a podcast interview about one of my recent books: newbooksnetwork.com/early-modern-e…
It was very fun to talk with Jana earlier this month!

doctor who lore (1/🧵)

Happy Holidays, from my queer Jewish and Christian household, to yours. May your holiday season be warm, safe, and filled with loving kindness and goodness. And if you need a place to celebrate, my door is always open.

Hey Twitter #Furniture friends! Talk to me/let me know about your favourite over-sized #ottomans ! We're looking for a large one for our living room - the bigger the better, and storage is a HUGE benefit! Thoughts/options!?

With all the imagery going around, including the one below, I thought I would create a short 🧵on the history of these images. They have roots in Nazi and Soviet propaganda. We can start with this very image, Der Stürmer August 1930 1/n

St. Nicholas at Nicaea when the Arians start speaking.

This is my relationship to a TEE. And it’s SO FUNNY to me.

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Thrilled to have been awarded a Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship from The Renaissance Society of America to begin work on my second book project, a first critical edition of the 210 surviving letters of Luisa Donati Strozzi, spanning 1466-1510! Delighted to be bringing this remarkable corpus to the world.

For correct takes on humanities discourse and Harvard discourse, you can look at some of the things I wrote this year:

Out in April!

“MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR.

I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964.

I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM.

I WAS 22 YEARS OLD.

SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD.

I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF.

IF YOU ARE READING IT, I AM DEAD.'

#whatisrememberedlives

It me :D

Christmas came early! My latest article is out in a special edition of Church History and Religious Culture on “Women in Christianity”

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