Ahem, timely CFP for those at Indiana University, Columbia University and elsewhere.

Just out (+open access): 'The Material Body: Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700-1850' eds Lizzy Craig-Atkins & me. A unique collaboration of historians & archaeologists who stepped outside their discipline to study embodiment
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BOOM second historians amicus brief filed by Jill LePore, David W. Blight DrewFaust and John Fabian Witt all heavy hitters here. Terribly grateful that they cited my forthcoming book from Liveright Books

On January 17, 18, and 19, 2024, IU held listening sessions to collect feedback from members of the IU community concerned about the proposal to sever Kinsey from IU. Read our response document here:
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#StandwithKinsey

Beautifully conceived conference on global early modern women and record-keeping:

Wonderful opportunity for an early career political historian

.Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on the proposed cuts and closures Oxford Brookes in #History & other depts bit.ly/40YVjut

These cuts are extensive. They risk the future of staff students, and the very research culture for which Brookes historians are known.

Thread: I’ve been re-reading works on feminism and care to actively fight falling into despair. I illustrated a few quotes that resonated. I’ll keep adding to this thread in the coming days.

#DigitalArt #DigitalIllustration #AcademicTwitter
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Unlikely alliance between academe and Pussy Riot; I love it: theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

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Sex and health researchers, please read and sign about the new threat to Kinsey Institute at IU
here: indianapublicmedia.org/news/researche…. Sign the petition here: change.org/p/support-the-…
Cicely Marston

Care about the history of sex, gender and reproduction? Please read about the threat to Kinsey Institute at IU here: indianapublicmedia.org/news/researche…. Sign the petition here: change.org/p/support-the-… #histsex

Historians, who writes really well about normativity, Foucault aside? Thinking about what it meant for psychoanalysis to turn to normative theories of human development in the mid 20th c

Ok so here is the official announcement that Stony Brook University is starting an initiative in Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a new Minor, and five (!!!) new hires. Yours truly as the inaugural director. news.stonybrook.edu/university/sbu…

Historians! Send your smartest students to work with us in the Gender and Biopolitics graduate cluster here at Indiana University. Info about info sessions and my lovely faculty colleagues in the link history.indiana.edu/graduate/gende…

Women’s History Today CFP: exciting special issue for those interested in childhood / childcare 💫

OK, so I want to know the American history of the paper round. So iconic but who has studied it

Nerdy academic question: when did an author's year of birth get added to library catalogs like the Library of Congress? Asking for myself trying to find out an author's age. Should be a question to which we already know the answer?

For The TLS, I reviewed Jessica Cox's Confinement, about the Victorian maternal body the-tls.co.uk/articles/confi…

My Twitter algorithm is shot, but I will ask here regardless: favorite undergrad readings on 'what is an archive?' and on 'oral history' as a source? Thx muchly!