Amanda Summers, academic job market era

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PhD candidate @TempleUHistory - Iberian Empires, Inquisition, Incarceration, Body, Gender, Sex, Death. Fulbright Spain 2021-2, McNeil Center Fellow 2023-4.

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The waiting period between submitting your dissertation and your defense (and then move and new position) is kind of a killer. Please suggest some recent articles for me to read for enjoyment. Colonial LatAm/Caribbean please <3

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One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

Foucault (😬, 1975)

attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Great news now do the CIA www.bbc.com/news/article...

Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitarieswww.bbc.com Chiquita made payments to the AUC, which engaged in widespread human rights abuses for decades.

Dear friends who have been with me since the twitterstorians days. I cannot thank y’all so much for the many ways this community has supported me through my doctoral years. In about 1 month, I’m defending!

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*deep breath* I signed the papers and... I AM ECSTATIC TO ANNOUNCE that I will be the Duane H. King postdoctoral fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research with the University of Tulsa/Gilcrease Museum for 2024-5. We have the most incredible dream of a year planned!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaaaaaaaaanges It's all happening so fast!!!!

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And as usual, the stellar leadership of @aaup-penn.bsky.social has swiftly issued a powerful response

"This is an unfortunate but necessary step to prevent violence, restore operations, and return our campus to our community" — which requires that we ignore our own complicity in perpetuating the devastating violence, disrupted operations, and premature death in communities outside our own

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They began arresting our students at around 5am this morning

LIVE UPDATES: Police in riot gear arrest protesters at Penn encampment, dismantle tentswww.thedp.com The police response comes on the 16th day since the Gaza Solidarity Encampment began and the second day since it expanded.

I'm putting together a panel for 16th/17th Spanish Americas and Caribbean, let's collab! I have something new in the works to bring to conferences next year and I'm so excited to show y'all. www.mceas.org/events/2025/...

Where is Early America? | The McNeil Center for Early American Studieswww.mceas.org Call for Papers Where is Early America?

I love this city. It is my home, the place I am of and from. Generations of me have been born, lived, and died here. I love it and it's gritty Philthy nonsense with my whole heart and being. But I cannot live in this hot rainy foggy swampy mess it keeps making me live in.

Cryptic message #1: youtu.be/Vl3hRrVmYsA?...

Oklahoma (From "Oklahoma!" Soundtrack)youtu.be Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupOklahoma (From "Oklahoma!" Soundtrack) · Gordon MacRae · Charlotte Greenwood · Shirley JonesOklahoma!℗ 1955 Angel...

5-15 years 11 archives 5 countries 7 chapters 118,507 words 437 pages 41 pages of works referenced 1 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION SENT TO MY ADVISOR

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columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

LOOK HOW GOOD THIS IS!!! AGI MP-PERU_CHILE,220

Spring job market era is ***popping off*** and this dissertation is about to be sent off and when it's all done I am sleeping on a beach with a PBR in my hand and not doing anything for a week!

Had a dream that my committee made me rewrite my entire dissertation by hand and gave me a week.

The really fun thing about doing cultural history is all of the neat side quests you get to go on. Like figuring out why magic spell references Barrabas and the Mount of Olives.

Not me finding these two books this many years into my research 😭😂😭😂😭

I need to know if Soportújar has a town archive because reasons.

I’m campus visiting this week and the town the college is in has everything I love but most importantly 2 In-n-Out burgers and when I tell you I wept in joy.

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Did you feel the EARTH MOVE this morning? That is but a TASTE of MY POWER. If MY DEMANDS are not met within the next 72 HOURS, then I shall BLOT OUT THE SUN. The clock is ticking.

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The Great River floods. Earthquakes harrow the East. A solar eclipse stands to blot out the Sun. We have lost the Mandate of Heaven.

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an earthquake three days before a total eclipse of the sun would absolutely have taken out a whole ass dynasty back in the day

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Not that many people realize that the E in DEI actually stands for Earthquake.

Ok yeah like, for us West Coast/seismically active area folks, this was a small quake BUT Philly isn't supposed to shake! We aren't California! Let us have our moment lol.

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Confirming my belief that the end of the world will be logging on to social media and seeing 1000 people post "What is that in the sky" simultaneously

WHY DID PHILLY JUST HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE

All my friends are defending right now! It's so exciting! I have one more chapter and an intro to revise and I'll be joining them! That's also exciting! Dr.s everywhere!

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British Museum in private talks with four governments over returning artefacts www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04...

British Museum in private talks with unnamed governments over returning artefactswww.telegraph.co.uk Repatriation requests came through ‘confidential diplomatic channels’