Emily Brady
@emilybrady.bsky.social
American Historian, JRF at Rothermere American Institute and Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Researching Black women photographers in the Civil Rights Movement.
Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3
And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Onni Gust@onnigust.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.
Fantastic Targeted Research Panel today on US magazine culture at the Glasgow @officialbaas.bsky.social 2026 conference with Katie Burke @benoitmes.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @emilybrady.bsky.social for chairing too. 🙏 Excellent papers all around, it was a blast! See you next all BAAS 🫡
At the @officialbaas.bsky.social Conference in Glasgow, you can sign up to a one-on-one chat with top academic editors to discuss your ideas for articles and monographs! We've got editors from @edinburghup.bsky.social, @manchesterup.bsky.social and the Journal of American Studies!
At the @officialbaas.bsky.social Conference in Glasgow, you can sign up to a one-on-one chat with top academic editors to discuss your ideas for articles and monographs! We've got editors from @edinburghup.bsky.social, @manchesterup.bsky.social and the Journal of American Studies!
New Episode Alert! Today, we are Finding Jane Austen in her earliest writings and exploring her fascination with mystery, theft, and murder! We also listen along as Austen reads the popular, and not always age-appropriate, works of her day. Listen now on your favorite podcast app.
Episode Four: The Prodigy — Revolutionary Histories
Jane Austen’s teenage writings reveal the stirrings of an early genius beginning to develop. Within them, we find thieves, murderers, and yet another intriguing mystery. On today’s episode, we are fol...
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📚Call out for panellists for book talk at @officialbaas.bsky.social!📚 We are delighted to partner with @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social to gather Americanists from all areas to discuss how thinking about America's founding influences our research and teaching. We're looking for 3-5 contributors!
‼️ BAAS and the Journal of American Studies are pleased to announce that they will be recruiting for the following roles at JAS in Summer 2026, for start dates of 2 January 2027. Learn more about the roles here:
Pre-Announcement: Editorial Team Roles at Journal of American Studies, recruiting Summer 2026 - British Association for American Studies
The Journal of American Studies, BAAS’s flagship publication, is one of the longest-running and most respected area studies journals in the world. Its purpose is to critique and interrogate the…
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Lots of fun giving a lecture on the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement for AIM High A Level students this morning alongside some cool historians @emilybrady.bsky.social @davidolusoga.bsky.social
New Episode Alert! There was almost a world in which there was no Jane Austen. Or at the very least, no Jane Austen novels. No Pride and Prejudice. No Sense and Sensibility. In today’s episode, we explore Jane’s brush with death and the unusual cast of women who shaped her literary interests.
Episode Three: All the Masters Necessary — Revolutionary Histories
You might not realize it, but there was almost a world in which there was no Jane Austen. Or at the very least, no Jane Austen novels. No Pride and Prejudice. No Sense and Sensibility. In today’s epis...
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Never hurts for BrANCH historians to peer over the borders of the long 19th Century… And it looks like the IHR North American History seminar has an interesting talk this Thursday, with @emilybrady.bsky.social discussing “Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s”
“Boss Lady”: Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s
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It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.
Barbara Gordon@thebookwizard.bsky.social · 7mo ago"I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did." Rest in power, Ms. Claudette Colvin. The fight for equality continues. ❤️
Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
‘I Felt All This’
Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’
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🔔 We have extended the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding until Friday 28th November. What's TRP funding? Each conference, we award up to £5000 funding for panels which aim to support & promote the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities & disability communities.
I am heartbroken and horrified that the department where I received my PhD is under threat of closure. This is a dynamic and welcoming community that is at the forefront of American Studies in the UK. I encourage everyone to sign the below petition and rally behind our colleagues in Nottingham.
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉 Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November. buff.ly/xAdQJB8
BAAS Annual Conference - Glasgow 2026 - British Association for American Studies
The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st annual British Association for American…
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The CFP for the @officialbaas.bsky.social Annual Conference is now live! Join us at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in April 2026 to mark the 250-year anniversary of 1776, with amazing keynote speakers already lined up! Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025 baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
BAAS 2026 - University of Glasgow 9-11 April 2026 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Annual Conference 2026 Call for Papers The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st a...
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We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
This week I start a new job as a two-year Departmental Lecturer in American History! I'll continue to be based at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social and be starting at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social. Excited to get back into the classroom after three years of research!
📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America. The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025. Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…
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WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History
We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History, you will be required to make a significant contributio...
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SAND RUSH has won a prize 😃🏖️! Many thanks to all the colleagues at UEA+the Arthur Miller Institute for their hard work championing new research in American studies🇺🇸! This prize is a collective Northumbria AMS win: the book was made so much better just from hanging out with my smart colleagues 💜
American Studies @ Northumbria@nuamstudies.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
Calling all UK-based PGRs/ECRs 📣 Are you planning your next conference visit or research trip stateside? Apply for one of our Peter Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards your trip! Our next round closes in TWO WEEKS on July 1st - don't miss out!
Parish Travel Grants — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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Watch out who you invite inside...our episode on SINNERS is out now! Dr Tammy Kernodle joins to unpack all the history — but especially the music! — behind the latest historical blockbuster to take cinemas by storm 🎵🧛♂️ Available wherever fine podcasts are found! open.spotify.com/episode/7pJ6...
The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) invites applications for PGR & ECR Travel Grants of up to £1000 to fund travel to the US for conferences, to conduct remote/archival research into 19thC US history, & more... Deadline: 1st July.
BrANCH Travel Awards - British Association for American Studies
The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians invites applications for PGR & ECR Travel Grants of up to £1000. Deadline: July 1.
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Lecturer (Education) in Modern US History Queen's University Belfast #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI397/l...
Lecturer (Education) in Modern US History at Queen's University Belfast
Apply for the Lecturer (Education) in Modern US History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
@daviddoddington.bsky.social · last yr.Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
