Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
@gianamar97.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
📢 #ESEH is raising funds for 2027 Travel Grants to support early-career researchers, grad students, independent scholars & those from lower-income countries presenting at the 14th ESEH Conf. in Salzburg, 6–10 Sept 2027. Donate now ➡️ www.betterplace.org/en/projects/... #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
I have a piece out in the new edition of History Today, discussing an unacknowledged anniversary of the first enslaved people to be sent to England’s first Caribbean colony in 1626 and what this means for slavery heritage and reckoning with colonial pasts. www.historytoday.com/history-toda...
We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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We're delighted to announce that Somak Biswas has won the MBSA Early Career Prize for best presentation at #MBS2026, for a paper entitled ‘AIDS & the Racialisation of Mobility: Britain, 1985-1995’. The judges also highly commended Rebecca Orr & Naomi Samake-Bäckert modbritstud.org.uk/events-awards/
Events & Prizes - The Modern British Studies Association
Explore our annual conference, prizes & early career awards. Join scholars sharing research on modern Britain.
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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. We're inviting proposals from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS
'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians
The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS
The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...
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If you'd like something quick and goofy to forget the news and think about a better future, here's a clip in which I chat with @profgabriele.com on @americanmedieval.bsky.social about one of my blueprints for a Monstertopia: The Muppet Show.
American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · 2w agoin this episode, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social asks the important questions like why isn't life like the Muppet Show??? youtube.com/shorts/LXGo5...
The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum
We hope to see many early-career researchers at next year's ESEH! Remember that there are many more formats that the traditional panel. Nextgate will of course be present in several ways! #EnvHist
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History@eseh.bsky.social · 4w agoThe call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum
That was a fantastic conference in beautiful Edinburgh! #ESHS-HSS A huge Thank You to all, from the organisers to the venues' staff, for making a gathering of this challenging size possible! 🙏 Safe travels home and feel free to share your impressions and highlights below.
very excited I get to work on the "Inn of the Indian Ocean" project next year! @uvahumanities.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
Veni grants for 28 UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers
NWO has awarded Veni grants to 28 talented researchers at the UvA and Amsterdam UMC (location AMC).
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One of the pleasures of working at History Workshop is getting to work on times and places far outside your original field. I'd never considered the history of the arrest before, so it was fascinating to help edit this piece!
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3w agoWho held the power during an arrest in early modern England? @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social explores how bystanders could uphold or undermine the power of the state.
🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Glad I got to review Ho-fung Hung's fascinating new book, The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear, for @historytoday.com.
History Today@historytoday.com · 3w agoIn The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again. ✍️ Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again. ✍️ Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
‘The China Question’ by Ho-fung Hung review
In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again.
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Early career researchers are the lifeblood of any discipline. Their entrance into academia is at the heart of its renewal. What happens when those arteries are blocked? That's one of the questions the British Academy's SHAPE Observatory is asking. 1/3
Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy
A new data map released today shows a sharp and widespread decline in opportunities for university staff in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects in 2024-25. The data shows a precarious la...
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We have the following 3 calls for research funding for RHS Fellows & Members: bit.ly/4wwSMGu > 'Open Research Grants', for mid & later career historians > 'Early Career Fellowship Grants', for postdocs > Martin Lynn Scholarship', for PhD research in African history Closing 4 September #Skystorians
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: September 2026 deadlines - RHS
The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates of 4 September 2026. Early Career Fellowship Grants, 2026-27* off...
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The 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting is officially open: three Early Career Speakers take the floor tonight!
Question for #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks people!📜 Leon Voet claims 16,263 parchment sheets for thirteen copies of Plantin's eight-volume Polyglot bible required about 8,000 sheep to be slaughtered. Does this imply that a single sheep skin yielded two parchment sheets? /1
Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...
We were delighted to learn that Past & Present author @gianamar97.bsky.social has won the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026 for his research published in Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) pastandpresent.org.uk/past-present...
Past & Present AuthorGianamar Giovannetti-Singh Wins 2026 RHS Early Career Article Prize - Past and Present
by the Past & Present editorial team We were delighted to learn that Dr. Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Amsterdam) has won the Royal Historical Society’s Early Career Article Prize 2026 for...
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Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
