We are running two (!) TT/tenured searches this year. I am not on either committee, but happy to answer questions about working at Tufts. The first is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History apply.interfolio.com/191613

We are running two (!) TT/tenured searches this year. I am not on either committee, but happy to answer questions about working at Tufts. The first is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History apply.interfolio.com/191613

Wonderful to see this in print. A perceptive and generous review of what was a true labor of love for all of us.

Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities

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it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com

A beautiful morning for a Cambridge run and picking up @hbuxton.bsky.social’s book from @portersqbooks.bsky.social! Congrats, friend!

A few ideas for persuading the Scots to stay in Boston: - Create single payer healthcare in Massachusetts - End the liquor license cap and the happy hour ban - Create more cross-country walking paths (I can help) - More art, culture, and sport festivals in/around Boston What else?

It's an honour to be shortlisted for an Orwell Prize for my article in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social last year about my own experiences of homelessness. Thanks to @orwellprize.bsky.social and @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social You can read the piece here: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

I'm so delighted to see this out in the world, its the product of years of work and thought - maybe the hardest thing I've written, and made possible by numerous friends and readers. Its paywalled, but of course drop me a line if you need help with access. In the article I try and do three things:

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on advance access: "Industrial ruination, community arts, and creativity capitalism in late twentieth-century Liverpool" by @samwetherell.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk) doi.org/10.1093/past...

@umich.edu alums: let your voice ring docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UM Alums - 2026 Spring Commencement

If you’re an alum of the University of Michigan, please sign the letter by clicking on this link to open a form. https://forms.gle/g5LZcE8bGGKZkG9J6 May 4, 2026 Dear President Grasso, Provost McCau...

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Urban historians, what are your favorite works that focus on one street or one site? I've already got Jerry White and @tricksterprince.bsky.social. No geographic or temporal parameters, this is to help a thesis student with her lit review. @samwetherell.bsky.social @urbanhistory.bsky.social

assumed this was a sophisticated april fools at first

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

anybody familiar with the attitudes of Irish historians, political scientists, and/or theorists? curious what the reputation of Oliver Cromwell is as a historical figure amongst those folks, and whether it's changed much in the last few generations

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

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New ”Ireland is a colony” example just dropped.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

On Renee; www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

American shot dead by Ice agent remembered for ‘formative years’ in Northern Ireland

Renée Nicole Good took part in Christian youth missions to Northern Ireland as a teenager

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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

Nephew approved. @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social @petermandler.bsky.social

I'm very proud of this book: it has a wonderful array of work by many of my favourite historians, which cumulatively makes the pitch for understanding modern British History through the lens of the urban. Lund Humphries have done a wonderful production job, & it is a big beautiful book. Buy it now!

Lund Humphries@lhartbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

OUT NOW! The Modern British City 1945-2000, ed. by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith, brings together architectural, urban and social historians, to chart the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities between the end of the Second World War and the early 21st century.

Launch event for the Modern British City at @c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... Do come! The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.

I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.

Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies

A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.

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Y’all if they’re marching in The Woodlands and Marble Falls that means a shit load more than marches in DC, NYC, and Boston.

Penny P@mstmompj.bsky.social · 10mo ago

No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.

"But fueling Jewish studies on the fumes of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education is not a win. It’s a trap, and one we fear will bring ill consequences to our field, our universities, and American Jews." From @lilacb.bsky.social, Kate Rosenblatt, and me.

Jewish-Studies Scholars, Beware: Trump’s Deal Will Corrupt You

We must all resist being turned into court Jews.

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On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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The Modern British City 1945-2000 is out on November 28th, and is available for pre-order from ‪@lhartbooks.bsky.social‬: www.lundhumphries.com/products/the....

My brilliant thesis student! Congrats, Maeve 🍾

Women’s History Association of Ireland@whaireland.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to announce Maeve Hagerty as this year's McCurtain/Cullen Prize Winner. womenshistoryassociation.com/2025/05/30/m...

Historians for Trans Rights - open letter, please sign - you don’t have to be a UK based historian to sign the letter #allyship #solidarity docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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I am a proud Tufts University alum, proud parent of a current Tufts student., a proud American & a proud Jew. This morning, I sent this letter to the Tufts President and the Board of Trustees. More than 100 parents and alumni have signed on. cc: @dandrezner.bsky.social @amyspitalnick.bsky.social

Her office opens at 9am - let's jam those phone lines, folks, let's demand to know when she will be denouncing these federal kidnappings and this brazen attack on our neighbors, our students, our school, and our state. MA isn't a sanctuary state? We're gonna make it one.

Anna Phylaxis@quatoria.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm calling the Governor's Office to complain, and if you live in MA, you should too: (617) 725-4005

An interesting report on the new Sunday opening of the Stornoway Tesco by @everebecca.bsky.social, which makes the case that it's community and workers' leisure, not simply religion which is at stake. Stornoway is better understood as part of changes that have impacted all of us.

‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening

The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trend

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