Outstanding Dissertation Award

Sarah Meiners (Cornell University), “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific”

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Congratulations to all of our 2026 award winners!!

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wuddup philly #OAH2026

Cya there, Sonya!

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for me it's Linda Gordon's classic, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, and Max Bergholz's Violence as a Generative Force

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

I really need to deploy the air fryer way more often 😭

my patron saint is back in action 😍

my batch of copies finally arrived 😭

Congratulations to you, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!!!

I made the mistake yesterday of asking my students what "looksmaxxing" and "clavicular" is and why it's decomposing

spotted in San Francisco 👀

So much of academic work is being the guy who actually read a thing

Greetings from @asianstudies.org #AAS2026 in Vancouver! We're excited to share new and notable books in #AsianStudies. Stop by Booth 218 to say hello! Our 40% off conference discount runs through March 31—visit our virtual exhibit to learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/association-...

If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️

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Seattle folks, I'll be back in the city this weekend - come hang at Mam's Books in the International District for my book launch and conversation with Moon-Ho Jung!

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wait this looks super dope

Hot off them presses! (And hopefully off them sluggish supply chains!)

Vince Rafael, my teacher and dear friend, and eminent historian of the Philippines, passed away today. If you work in cultural anthropology, translation studies, Asian studies, Asian Am, you'll know the monumental impact he had. He also endlessly supported young scholars. He'll be deeply missed.

Image shows 5 nominees for the LA Times Book Prize in History, including OP's book Born in Flames.

Good news in ghastly times

Reconnection, like return, might feel innocent to us Filipino diaspora folk, but actually entangle us in a web of exploitative relationships with the nation-state that occupies the islands and calls itself our "homeland."

Thanks to my patient editor Mike Baccam, and my friends and colleagues!

While we might think about the balikbayan as a post-1970s legal and cultural category, we can find its roots in late Spanish revolutionary nationalism and American empire.

"What does it mean to go home?” is one of those feel-good clichés that, the more you peel back, the more convoluted it gets.

BALIKBAYAN is a strange and unexpected history of return migration, and diaspora's ideological and economic relationship with colonial nationalism, settler state formation, and imperial territoriality.

It begins with that fundamental diasporic question: What does it mean to go home?

Balikbayan How migrants imagined a country through their acts of returnWhat does it mean to go back home, especially when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and l...

Happy book birthday to BALIKBAYAN: A REVENANT HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO HOMELAND, published with the University of Washington Press (@uwapress.uw.edu).

If you've ordered already, the supply chain fulfillment is taking some time, but it'll get to yall ASAP. :)

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our first stable apartment was Birchmount and Finch (my brother was born at Scarb Grace and my dad used to work there)!!!! your end of Finch remains a personal sacred place for Samosa King 😂

SCARBOROUGH!!!

(ALSO: you're back in Canada now right? can I send you a Canadian edition galley? 😃)

I'll reach out when the US version gets into production 👀

Hi, yes I did, it's my first book that I wrote at the end of undergrad. Thanks for reading. It's been a while since I thought about this one, haha.