Deeply honored to be among this year's Alumni Awards winners at the Graduate Center, and most grateful for sharing a space with its vibrant community of colleagues and students.

See the full review here: muse.jhu.edu/article/967179

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Thrilled to see Spirals in the Caribbean reviewed by Lucy Swanson in French Studies:

“A masterful and compelling work of scholarship… illuminating the Afro-indigenous struggle for freedom that unites the island’s history.”

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Writing With Outrage: A Conversation with Sophie Maríñez about Spirals in the Caribbean Sophie Maríñez is an interdisciplinary, comparatist scholar whose research lies at the intersection of literature, history, and cultural studies from the Caribbean and its diasporas, with a focus on…

"They were inspired by the shape of the spiral, which they found in nature ... but also in social phenomena, which evolve like a spiral, where each turn deepens and expands."

@smarinez.bsky.social discusses her award-winning book in an interview from Tupelo Quarterly!

Spirals in the Caribbean – Penn Press An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporasSpirals in the Caribbean responds to key q...

🧵Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows share their research and the importance of funding community college scholars #ACLS2025

@smarinez.bsky.social of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social shared her research that turned into the book Spirals in the Caribbean: www.pennpress.org/978151282640...

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Exciting news! Come visit me this fall! Paris, j'arrive!!! 🥳

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Cracking the Magafacists code

I hear you. Bernie Sanders: ‘These are the scariest times in my life.’

Musk controls media. Trump defies courts, freezes funds, and guts agencies.

This isn’t just politics—it’s oligarchy and authoritarianism merging into one. If this isn’t a warning, what is?

February 23, 2025 Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.

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Spirals in the Caribbean – Penn Press An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporasSpirals in the Caribbean responds to key q...

Congratulations to author @smarinez.bsky.social, whose book SPIRALS IN THE CARIBBEAN has won the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought from
@caribphil.bsky.social!

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What an honor to be one of the awardees of the Frantz Fanon Prize for my book Spirals In the Caribbean (@pennpress).

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

Brought to you by the anti-woke champions of free speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

Trump’s $10B Shakedown—And Media Keeps Folding

Paramount may settle Trump’s $10B lawsuit against CBS just to avoid White House retaliation on its Skydance merger. First Disney, now this. Trump is using lawsuits as a weapon to silence media—and they keep paying up.

Donald Trump Admits Tariffs Will Harm Americans | Evening News Update Donald Trump admits tariffs will cause disruptions, the Administration has begun scrubbing government website of references to Trans Americans, and the DIA will no longer observe Black History Month.

BREAKING: Donald Trump admits tariffs will cause disruptions, the Administration has begun scrubbing government website of references to Trans Americans, and the DIA will no longer observe Black History Month. News is coming fast. I break it all down. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Republican women: he warned you! You won't "have to vote" once he is president! And you still fell for him....

BREAKING: 88 FBI agents who worked on Trump cases were just physically escorted out of the Washington Field office per a source.

It's all happening so fast. Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine: It's meant for us to be cognitively overwhelmed by the sheer massiveness of destructive policies, all at once.

This is crazy. I used to think that federal jobs were the safest in the world, almost envied their benefits. Not anymore :(😞

How could this not possibly violate a slew of federal laws?

A plane crashed in NE Philly tonight 1/31/2025 #philadelphia YouTube video by Pearlmania500

There was a plane crash in Philly this evening at 6pm. Luckily, our friends and family are safe, but a lot of people have been hurt and killed.

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Last night, I told acquaintances not to come to NY this year. Anything can happen with this nut running our country.

Funny, I just did that last night to people who want to stay at my place. Not a good time, my friend. Go visit another country.