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Posts by Lisa Materson

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Manetti Shrem Museum on Instagram: "Join the Manetti Shrem Museum on Tuesday, April 14, for an evening with Lisa G. Materson and Corrie Decker at Covered, a campus-wide collaboration celebrating recen... 11 likes, 1 comments - manettishrem on April 3, 2026: "Join the Manetti Shrem Museum on Tuesday, April 14, for an evening with Lisa G. Materson and Corrie Decker at Covered, a campus-wide collaboratio...

Featuring Professors Lisa Materson and Corrie Decker!
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How Faculty Can Support and Mentor the Next Generation of Scholars As a professor of history and UC Davis associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor teaches and coaches them through both common challenges, like how to conn...

Featuring Professor Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor!
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Women's History Month 2026
Women's History Month 2026 YouTube video by UC Davis

Happy Women's History Month! LeShelle May & Lisa G. Materson, professor of history, invite the #ucdavis community to celebrate & recognize women's stories. Understanding these stories transforms how we look at the past and lead into the future. youtu.be/Lsn9A8IhSQw?...
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Women's History Month 2026
Women's History Month 2026 YouTube video by UC Davis

Happy Women’s History Month! It was great to join LeShelle May in this short video celebrating women’s history and to have the opportunity to discuss the history and work of the Vieques Women’s Alliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsn9...

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How We Priced and Valued Everything
How We Priced and Valued Everything YouTube video by Minds Over Matters

On this week's episode, we're joined by Historian Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor to discuss how auctions came to define how we buy and sell goods.

She explains that auctions were as much a social as an economic activity, and how this early adoption still resonates today.

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I'm thrilled to be presenting my new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY this Friday, 11/7, at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. The transmission will begin at 8 a.m. (California) / 11 a.m. (Puerto Rico) via Facebook Live: facebook.com/CIHUPR Please join!

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Thank you to Manuel Grajales for this wonderful review of RADICAL SOLIDARITY for H-Net Reviews @mannygrajales2.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/hnet...

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Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence. By Lisa G. Materson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2024. Pp. 286. $29.95 cloth. | The... Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence. By Lisa G. Materson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2024. Pp. 286. $29.95 cloth.

I am grateful to Mónica Jiménez for this beautiful review of RADICAL SOLIDARITY in _The Americas_ @monijimenez.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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New episode of Early American Conversations! A conversation between Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, author of America Under the Hammer, and Melena Laudig, our 2024-2025 Richard S. Dunn Fellow: open.spotify.com/episode/34zL...

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Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson!
#skystorians

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Yay!!!! Outstanding book by an outstanding historian. Congratulations @lmaterson.bsky.social

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Thank you, John!!

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Thank you!!

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Excited to share that RADICAL SOLIDARITY received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. I'm grateful to the ACH for this recognition! @uncpress.bsky.social

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Paperback is now available for pre-order and will be out this summer (use code PPIB2025 for a 20% discount). Looking forward to sharing the work more broadly. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 19 for a Symposium on Puerto Rico and the Diaspora organized by the Davis-Puerto Rico Initiative. 9:00-3:00, Sproul 912. History Professors Lisa Materson and José Juan Pérez Meléndez are among the speakers. #puertorico #skystorians

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Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!

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New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social. #MSWMedia

Listen: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

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For your podcast listening enjoyment!

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Can't wait to read! Congratulations!!

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📚 Today & tomorrow you can preorder my book for 50% off as a part of the flash sale at @dukepress.bsky.social ! Use Coupon Code FLASH25 ⭐️ So excited the book is out in less than a month. 🎉

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Happy to share my new article, "A Tropical Vienna," which offers a new take on how Brazil became independent. Open access in The Americas! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thank you, Sandra!!

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Ruth Reynolds & Puerto Rican Independence Ruth Reynolds, born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1916 to a strict Methodist family, may have seemed an unlikely ally to the cause of Puerto Rican independe…

Had a great time speaking with @feministkelly.bsky.social of #UnsungHistory about Ruth Reynolds, solidarity activism, and the struggle for Puerto Rico's independence! 🎙️Check out the episode below👇👇—and explore the additional sources list! www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

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Ruth Reynolds & Puerto Rican Independence Ruth Reynolds, born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1916 to a strict Methodist family, may have seemed an unlikely ally to the cause of Puerto Rican independe…

Professor Lisa G. Materson discusses her new book _Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence_ with @feministkelly.bsky.social on the Unsung History Podcast: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

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The Color Line My guest today is Dr. Martha S. Jones , the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at the …

This week on Unsung History, @marthasjones.bsky.social joins me to discuss her fabulous new book, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. You don't want to miss this episode.

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Amelia Bloomer Amelia Jenks Bloomer was many things: writer and publisher, public speaker, temperance reformer, advocate for women’s rights and dress reform, and adoptive mother. …

Thank you to @scatterall.bsky.social for joining me this week on Unsung History to talk all about the amazing Amelia Bloomer, who never waited around for someone else to take action when change was needed.

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New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social. #MSWMedia

Listen: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/WFH/

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Radical Solidarity: New Book Tells the Story of an Unlikely Ally in Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement Historian Lisa Materson’s new book, Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence (UNC Press, 2024), tells the story of an unlikely activist and ...

Professor Lisa Materson’s new book, 📚Radical Solidarity📚 tells the story of an unlikely ally in Puerto Rico’s independence movement." #skystorians lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...

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