Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt.bsky.social
Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Very exciting news! Congratulations @ramonanegron.bsky.social!
Ramona Negrón@ramonanegron.bsky.social · yesterdayExcited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...
WHAT'S FEEGI? FEEGI is a special conference because it is unpretentious, affordable, and welcoming to scholars at all levels. The conferences are composed entirely of plenary sessions with short papers to maximize general discussion. Awards and travel grants are also available. Come to FEEGI!
No problem. I definitely don't need to be able to read those big chunks of missing text. I'm sure they don't say anything important. 🫣
Grateful for this thoughtful review of my book!
H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 3w agoNew book review: Stone on Schmitt, Casey: _Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, The_. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Published by H-Early-America. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20156710
New book review: Stone on Schmitt, Casey: _Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, The_. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Published by H-Early-America. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20156710
Schmitt, Casey. The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 277 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781512828146. Reviewed by Erin Stone (University of West Florida) Published on H-Early-America (July, 2026) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)
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Oh! So THIS is why AI boosters keep yelling about AI slop being the future... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble
Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast, or the economy could be in trouble.
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Seeking: A very wealthy donor to endow a new, year-long fellowship. Fellows will spend the entire year simply catching up on all of the amazing books that have come out in their field. In the meantime, I will start with this long-awaited gem! 🗃️
Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
The Atlantic Empire: A History of French Colonialism
Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew more connected by overseas trade and colonization. According to historians Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, accounts o...
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Hey historians! Anyone involved in developmental editing? How did you get started? What advice do you have for someone who might be interested in doing some developmental editing? 🗃️
FEEGI Spotlight: Jack Bouchard is an Medieval and Early Modern Historian specializing in maritime environments, food and island geographies. His recent book explores fishermen, geographies, and food production. Check it out! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
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Seeing an article that took years to produce in page proofs is a joy that will never get old. Coming soon! 🗃️
As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
In honor of e-publication week, Chris and I have launched a Substack. Follow for more than you ever wanted to know about the ivory sporks, wildly inaccurate maps, and emetic recipes that didn't make it into the book. #earlymodern #frenchhistory #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...
Introducing Beyond the Ocean
Welcome to our Substack!
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FEEGI supports and encourages scholarship around the Early-Modern world. Research spotlight: Sarah Balakrishnan Check out her innovative work! #Earlymodern #history www.sarahbalakrishnan.com
Sarah Balakrishnan
Sarah Balakrishnan is an award winning fiction writer and a historian of West Africa at Duke University.
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My wonderful friend, the stellar (and wildly productive) historian @rparkinson.bsky.social has written another fabulous book. Congratulations, Rob! I can't wait to dive in.
Rob Parkinson@rparkinson.bsky.social · 2mo agoYesterday was my birthday, today is the birthday for Tyrants and Rogues! The first book to interrogate the Declaration’s 27 grievances. On sale now!
Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.
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
AGAINST AI -
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How you know England is in a bit of denial about how hot this summer will be...
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
CFP: @reforc.bsky.social's #Reformazing annual conference 7-9 June 2027, in Zurich Deadline: 15 February 2027 all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #Reformazing
Historians! Has the British Library always been closed on Mondays?? Am I misremembering the good ole days when one could work six days a week between TNA and the BL? 🗃️
Anti-capitalism stickers on Apple laptops will never not be funny to me.
Midway through my summer archive trip and I am still really excited about two different book projects! Historians: should I write both at the same time? If not, how do I decide which one to write first? 🗃️
Nailed it! 😂 But seriously, why are scholars giving into this nonsense. Just do the work. 🗃️
