Tessera
Folgen

Pollyanna Rhee 이채영

@parhee.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html

483 Posts635 Follower328 Folgt
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d ago

that's my colleague, that's us "austerity—the blighting redirection of every dime toward ultra-elite profit+cascadingly away from literally anything else we need unions more urgently inside this moment of accelerated dismantling than at any other time since the 50s" lithub.com/how-austerit...

How Austerity is Killing Higher Ed (and What We Can Do About It)

Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in our bright and preposterous academic regalia, amid a long line of similar…

lithub.com

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 5d ago

The kind of class that is increasingly only available at places like Harvard - not because students at public universities aren't clamoring for it (they are) but because public universities are treated as a site for disciplining future workers, not educating people to be free.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d ago

“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

I think people aren’t fully aware that the right-wing is spending $200 million / year on their version of the humanities @uncivilcollective.bsky.social www.uncivilcollective.org

UNCIVIL | Exposing the Civility Industrial Complex

Billionaire funders and extremist politicians are funneling millions into campus dialogue programs and civics centers. They claim to be reducing “polarization” and promoting “pluralism,” but their rea...

uncivilcollective.org

Nate@natusm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Republicans pumped millions of dollars into the humanities instead of defunding them?

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

I feel like we should be able to get money for the humanities. I think @jbpritzker.bsky.social & MK Pritzker would be interested in the connection between critical research into the workings of power, culture, and society and habits of mind that support democracy and equality.

JB Pritzker@jbpritzker.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bad men gain power when we don't fight back. Vivek Ramaswamy is everything wrong with politics: arrogance, cruelty, dishonesty, and a willingness to do ANYTHING for power. Ohio deserves better. I'm proud that my wife, MK, is supporting Dr. Amy Acton today.

Statement from First Lady MK Pritzker discussing a $500,000 investment to support Amy Acton for Ohio Governor. The statement criticizes certain political behaviors and expresses endorsement for Amy Acton, emphasizing the importance of standing against divisive and extremist actions.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

Incredible report from @aaup.org & @amnesty-usa.bsky.social on the vast bipartisan repression of campus speech on Palestine by administrators and the police: www.aclu.org/publications...

"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union

"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...

aclu.org

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

In the end, the ability to pursue creative thought, liberated from demands of the market, is about freedom and both individual and collective realization and fulfillment. When people feel fulfilled and empowered intellectually they improve the health of the entire body politic.

AAUP @ UIUC@aaup-uiuc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Two more speakers have been announced! Stacy Davis Gates @stacydavisgates.bsky.social (President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers) and Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social (President of the @aaup.org). More information and registration: cfaillinois.org/2026/09/28/h...

Higher Education Under Attack: Panel & Reception

Join CFA on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, from 3–5 p.m. at NCSA Auditorium for a panel and reception on how faculty can move from isolated concerns to collective action. RSVP to request childcare.

cfaillinois.org

AAUP @ UIUC@aaup-uiuc.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're happy to share an upcoming event from @cfaillinois.bsky.social: Higher Education Under Attack (10/13, 3-5p). More information below in next post. Register to attend: form.fillout.com/t/mynAKEPtPqus

Pollyanna Rhee 이채영@parhee.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very grateful to @dariofazzi.bsky.social for this generous and thoughtful review of my book and seeing the "significance of a seemingly particular and privileged history" for H-Environment (still 30% off with UCPNEW at the University of Chicago Press site). networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Fazzi on Rhee, 'Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970' | H-Net

Rhee, Pollyanna. Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. 224 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 9780226840635. Reviewed by Dario Fazzi (Leiden University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

networks.h-net.org

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last mo.

I'll have to be vague on the details, but I've been sad to see and hear how the Vanderbilt report is being used opportunistically by people who never cared for humanities research to begin with to begin "debates" about the "state" of the humanities.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last mo.

The "declining majors and enrollments" anxiety is downstream from underinvestment in the research infrastructure of the humanities. Perversely, the obsessive focus on this (see the New Yorker's "Decline of the English Major") really distracts from the underlying issue, which is research investment.

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · last mo.

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

c-span.org

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo ago

Kind of hard for a professional organization to argue that history is integral to democracy when it goes to lengths to quash democracy within its own membership. And this isn't what I want my members dues to be used for. I suspect many will feel the same. 🗃️

If the AHA leadership continues to heed that advice, its members can expect further silencing of their voices within the organization. In addition to recommending that the AHA frame the historical profession as an arm of the “national security” apparatus, Thorn Run has told its leadership that it should reroute “all future requests for public statements,” “all member concerns regarding conflict zones,” and “all concerns regarding historians in conflict zones” to a leadership committee, so that it can contain and control “out-of-scope debates.” The aim, in other words, is to “utilize the January 2026 veto as a safe harbor precedent to prevent future mission-creep” by shifting from vetoes to a place where institutional silence ensures that there is nothing to veto.
Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...