Summer PHR just dropped: check out new articles from Bernard Gordillo Brockmann, Arang Ha, and Dean Kotlowski.

New from "Pacific Historical Review": Mission Bells, Chinese Exclusion Act, Indigenous Land Rights

Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

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University of California Press@ucpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

New issue alert: Released in time for you to read it online during the @pcb-aha.bsky.social conference, the new issue of @pachistreview.bsky.social is available online now. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/n...

Call for Nominations: Society of Sinophone Studies (3S) Shu-mei Shih First Book Prize. Nominations must be submitted to 3S by January 10, 2027.

The Shu-mei Shih First Book Prize (deadline: Jan 10, 2027) — Society of Sinophone Studies

The Shu-mei Shih First Book Prize The Shu-mei Shih First Book Prize of 3S is given biennially and honors the most outstanding author’s first book published in Sinophone studies during the two years preceding the year when the award is given. The book can focus on any time period and geographical c

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New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras

BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...

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Japan Studies scholars are invited to apply for our new round of research grant funding, established through support from Japan-US Friendship Commission. Several categories of grants are available, and all applications are due by 5pm ET on October 1! bit.ly/NEACgrants

New job: History of Early Modern East Asia (c. 1400-1850) Brown University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70189

The greatest treasure I found in the $1 bins today? Probably.

"Made in China Journal" published a conversation between Yuan Gao and I about my recent book. @uwapress.uw.edu madeinchinajournal.com/2026/07/27/r...

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People | Made in China Journal

Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exh...

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Yesterday I overheard a woman telling her four-year-old child: “Things don’t usually turn out perfectly. You have to get used to living in the struggle.” That kid is going to grow up to be either the most or least well-adjusted person alive.

Chinese is a language rich in proverbs and allusions, but "like taking off your pants to fart" is a particularly visceral example.

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"Made in China Journal" published a conversation between Yuan Gao and I about my recent book. @uwapress.uw.edu madeinchinajournal.com/2026/07/27/r...

Environmental historians of modern China often examine how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In 'Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People', @mmuscolino.bsky.social shifts focus to the people whose labor enabled those transformations.

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People | Made in China Journal

Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exh...

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Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters" "All of this ought to be common sense by now. But here we are in 2026, and we’re having to reiterate it yet again, which is truly lamentable."

Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters"

Disaster preparedness and disaster-relief efforts are hot topics on Chinese social media as the country braces for as many as three new typhoons in the next

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"Made in China Journal" published a conversation between Yuan Gao and I about my recent book. @uwapress.uw.edu madeinchinajournal.com/2026/07/27/r...

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People | Made in China Journal

Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exh...

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#SEENatCASBS

‘Global Environment’ 19.2 is live. It's a special issue on ‘Imagining Planetary Health, Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities’, edited by L. Klassen and C. Mauch: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social #openaccess

The journal French Historical Studies is especially interested in early-career researchers contributing to the upcoming #EnvHist issue. Deadline: 31 August. Read the full call here:

FEATURED JOB: Baylor University - Assistant Professor of Chinese, Tenure networks.h-net.org/jobs/70143/b... #job #education #academia #highered #language

I just finished @mmuscolino.bsky.social's Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People, one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time, on the burden of conservation in rural communities of China, focused on a county in eastern Gansu in the Loess Plateau. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures tran...

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A view from CASBS, 8 July 2026

Very concerning - the US has always operated under the a "strategic ambiguity" framework with respect to Japan, where we do not state explicitly whether it is Islamic or not.

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Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

Check out Adriaan Denbroeder's review of Micah S. Muscolino's "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China," published in 2025 by @uwapress.uw.edu; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #conservation www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Harvard Faces Pressure To Fire Confederate Generals https://theonion.com/harvard-faces-pressure-to-fire-confederate-generals/

Cover images of books entered into CASBS's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection - books conceived, initiated, completed, or otherwise undertaken by fellows during their residence with us and which acknowledge the Center - in recent months More about them and others: casbs.stanford.edu/about/recent...

I appreciate the effort that Adriaan Denbroeder devoted to writing this thorough and perceptive review of my book for H-NET. Looking forward to reading their work in the future!

Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out Adriaan Denbroeder's review of Micah S. Muscolino's "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China," published in 2025 by @uwapress.uw.edu; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #conservation www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

A great opportunity for historians of science "Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science" usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science

2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro...

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Not much discussion on Bluesky, but it's currently the U.N. Intl Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. Lots of interesting stuff being put out, including this primer on the persistent myth that pastoralists have caused widespread desertification pastres.org/2026/06/19/c...

Challenging desertification narratives

Dogogicha Camps in Kenya. Picture by Tahira Mohamed Desertification narratives often frame interventions in pastoral areas. Building on much past research, the PASTRES programme extended the critiq…

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Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

PODCAST "A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies": How the notions of borderlands, nation-building, and ethnic policies have been intertwined throughout 100 years of #CCP existence with @rollandnadege.bsky.social, @bennoweiner.bsky.social, Robert Barnett, @jleibold.bsky.social: bit.ly/3QzsUdL

Rosaldo's commentary on the implications of Miner's "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" will always be a classic.

SUP Mktg Dir@supmktg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're sad to learn of the death of Renato Rosaldo, longtime member (and chair) of Stanford's anthropology department, and a tremendously influential figure both in the field and on campus. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/s... www.sup.org/books/asian-...

Looking for classroom resources for courses in African American history? Check out these videos from The Future of the African American Past, a landmark 2016 conference co-hosted by the AHA & the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture that brought together 60+ scholars.

The Future of the African American Past – AHA

The AHA and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture co-hosted The Future of the African American Past, a landmark conference to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC.

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