"I think there’s an inability for those people who have wealth in the country to understand and value something like Hampshire. It was dedicated to a transformational education, in an era when higher education has been hijacked by the transactional" - Ken Burns '75 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
Thank you so much!
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on a sunny day.
UNC to Close Area Studies Centers https://bit.ly/4q5kUhf
#EDUSky #HigherEd
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Contre les fausses évidences, Thomas Snégaroff et Benjamin Stora signent un précis d’histoire sur l’Algérie française
I loved having this conversation with @hofrench.bsky.social about Africa's past, present and future, as well as Howard's brilliant new book about Kwame Nkrumah. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Congratulations @hofrench.bsky.social ! So well deserved!
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
New History Job Posted Today: Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | University of Massachusetts Amherst
🎓 New article by Jeffrey Ahlman (@jeffahlman.bsky.social) on "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
My department at Smith College is hiring a one year VAP in Political Theory. Full time (2:3) and benefited position.
Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory.
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854
This may not be as tragic as the devastation of PEPFAR, which has deprived AIDS patients of medications, but the elimination of the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs is a real loss for our country and the world.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
James Ferguson, a guiding light in the anthropology of southern Africa, has died.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
**Today,** from noon-1pm (PST), UW African Studies hosts Bright Gyamfi @gyamfiphd.bsky.social for his virtual lecture “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.”
Registration link is below, hope you can make it!
Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/event...
I like to think of it more as timeless.
It appeared in my queue this morning.
Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...
Very excited to share this news. My next book, The Second Emancipation, comes out in August, but if you want to buy it now through Barnes and Noble you can get 25% off today only by using PREORDER 25 at checkout. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-second...
Congrats Howard! I look forward to it!
We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
As we kick off the first week of quarter, I am reminded that I my mental model is *absolutely* directory structure and I have no idea how students now live their entire lives in the chaotic laundry basket that is Google Drive. This article explains it so well: www.theverge.com/22684730/stu...
