Philly-area friends: I'm going to be at BOOKED in Chestnut Hill this FRIDAY Dec 19 from 5:30-6:30 for an ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke UP 2025) book event! More info at the BOOKED website along with an RSVP link, as space is limited. Hope to see you there! www.bookedch.com/events-2/eve...

Author’s Event: Archival Interruptions — booked.

Local author Katharine Gerbner will be joining us in the shop from 5:30-6:30 pm on Friday, December 19th to introduce her book followed by a Q&A and book signing with refreshments

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Thrilled that ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS is part of the top 10 #Slaveryarchive best books of 2025 - highly recommend the other books on this list as well!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In this holiday season, we keep reading! This is the #Slaveryarchive 10 Best Books 2025 list www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...

Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/

"You find yourself in an archive. You are there because you are seeking something... You expect order, you need order. Instead, you find instability, difficulty, and danger. Your plans fall apart and time unravels. You have been lured in; it is a labyrinth." Edmund de Waal, an Archive

Some great books and articles on archives and libraries that came out in 2025. In no specific order. 🧵

#AARSBL2025 kicks off tomorrow! On our blog today, you can find everything you need to know about how to browse and save on our books and journals in #ReligiousStudies buff.ly/8ITPFAp

Thanks to everyone who came to the virtual launch of ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS! I’m posting a slide from my presentation for those who are wondering what an “irruption” is – if you don’t know, you are NOT alone! An “irruption” means “the act of breaking in or breaking through.”

Tomorrow, Nov. 12 is the virtual book launch for ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke University Press, 2025). Please join me at 6pm Central (7pm ET)! The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

Santa Barbara friends! Please join me for a book talk on ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS tomorrow at 1pm at UC Santa Barbara, HSSB 1174. The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

I'm so looking forward to reading this and continuing to learn from @ktgerbs.bsky.social!

Katharine Gerbner@ktgerbs.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I am THRILLED to announce that ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS is officially published with @dukepress.bsky.social! For those who would like to order the book, you can get 30% off using coupon code E25GRBNR at this link: www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

One of my amazing former professors @ktgerbs.bsky.social has a new book out and even though I no longer need a curve (I barely survived—it was HARD and I am BARELY SMART), you can get it for 30% with code E25GRBNR. Enjoy, kids. www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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We are so lucky to have @lollardfish.bsky.social in the History dept at UMN and now we are even luckier to have his incredible voice and perspective as an Op-Ed contributor to the @startribune.com .

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.

I am THRILLED to announce that ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS is officially published with @dukepress.bsky.social! For those who would like to order the book, you can get 30% off using coupon code E25GRBNR at this link: www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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Congratulations to @ktgerbs.bsky.social —her new book tracing how British colonial authorities in mid-18th c. Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans, is out this month. Can’t wait to read and assign it!!

Katharine Gerbner@ktgerbs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

I'm thrilled that my book is coming out this month, and even more thrilled to be on this fall lineup from @dukepress.bsky.social - so many amazing authors and titles! Check out the whole fall lineup here: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/n...

New Books in October

As the fall season rolls in, curl up with a new book! Check out our list of titles coming out in October for some reading inspiration. Part love story, part homage to jazz, and part guide to creati…

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Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out the list of terrific #NewBooks we're releasing this month, including "Archival Irruptions," by Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social: buff.ly/oH4sMaj

@dukepress.bsky.social is running a new book promotion, and Archival Irruptions is 30% off!

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Save 30% on #NewBook "Archival Irruptions," by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. #LatAmStudies #BlackStudies buff.ly/da0hJg3

With a new book coming out, I finally got around to updating my website. I'm thrilled with the new design - plus, my bio now includes the accurate number of children! (Last edit to my previous website was 7 years ago...) Check it out! www.katharinegerbner.com

Katharine Gerbner, Historian of Religion

Katharine Gerbner is a historian who examines how religion shapes – and is shaped by – race, politics, and technology.

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Nothing quite like opening an unexpected package and finding your own book inside! The official pub date isn't until mid-Oct, but Archival Irruptions @dukepress.bsky.social is now real and in 3D!

In "Archival Irruptions," @ktgerbs.bsky.social traces how British colonial authorities in Jamaica criminalized Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the introduction for free now. buff.ly/3JlgBEt

Come be my colleague at the University of Minnesota -- we are hiring! @umn-rels.bsky.social The Religious Studies program at UMN is searching for a new TT position in Buddhist Studies. Please circulate widely!

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

@ktgerbs.bsky.social provides an essential link in understanding the creation of racialized slavery. She demonstrates how Christians—intentionally & not—tied bondage to status as a Christian and, ultimately, how this tied assumptions about the heathen to enslaved Black people. 2/

My thoughts on @tomtweed.bsky.social's fascinating new book that retells American religious history through the lens of ecologies and technologies.

Barn Raiser@barnraiser.bsky.social · last yr.

A new history reconsiders who belongs in American religious history and what should count as religion barnraisingmedia.com/religion-ame...

Now with explosion of AI: LLMs draw upon existing cultural texts. They do not generate original ideas, but rather recycle old ones. How do inherent biases of these systems interact with the dynamics above? What might that mean for individuals and society?

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We are excited to announce our 2025 Roetzel Family Lecture! See the following poster for more details

Though I hear people say they may be over them, might be a good day to share 2 Starter Packs for #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas! 1/ go.bsky.app/RDvzxbj

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...