My article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries" is now available online in advance of the July issue of
@envirohistory.bsky.social. The essay reflects years of work and revision; I'm so grateful for the help I got along the way.
We welcome new submissions to ππ¨π¬ππππ«ππ¬ ππ¨π« ππ§π¬ππππ₯π ππ’π¦ππ¬! Let your imagination run wild and send a postcard to and from whoever you want, send it to the past or to the future, or why not from future to the past?
Read more here:
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The Black divers excavating slave shipwrecks: βIβm telling my ancestors: Iβm with youβ
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Online Event β ASEH Connects β Open Writing Hour
Thursday, 20 June 2024 β 3:00pm EDT
Hosted by Jessica Varner, ACLS/Getty Fellow
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Out 3/6/24 Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal & Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, & Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th-17th Centuries) by Nuno Vila-Santa & available to preorder now β #maritimehistory
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Very excited to see the new PAGES issue on earthquakes in print. It also features a short article that I wrote based on research on New England earthquakes and timekeeping carried out at the @jcblibrary.bsky.social in 2021. #envhist #earthquakes pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
Last session tomorrow, May 1, on Zoom! Register and join us at 6pm ET for Dr. Philip Guingona talking about how to teach about "Unsovereign Space" in world history!
Check out this amazing opportunity! #EnvHist #ClimHist #ArtHistory #HistSci
Linocut portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian in gradient of green to brown with pomegranate branch, caterpillar and butterflies
Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! π§ͺπ‘π©βπ¬#histsci Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars π§΅1/
My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! π www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Call for Submissions β Succession III: Queering the Environment β Rebellion
A NiCHE Series
Series Editors @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, Estraven Lupino-Smith, Addie Hopes
Proposal Deadline: April 5, 2024
Series Publication: June 2024
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What epoch is it? The ICS geologists say we're still in the Holocene. To understand all this, weβre revisiting Joyce Chaplin's recent review essay that situates the #Anthropocene concept in the context of the history of ideas.
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A super opportunity for educators (K-12 and college level) to work on navigating truth and misinformation in the classroom and the curriculum. Plus a little money for your time!!
Educators! The Alliance for Learning in World History (ALWH) at Pitt is hosting its annual PD workshop for teachers at all levels this coming June 1, on Zoom. The theme is "Truth, Misinformation, and Technology in World History" & the three keynote speakers are awesome. Spread the word & join us!
Ocean peeps! Read @graceeasterly.bsky.social 's piece, 'The US Only Pretends to Want Freedom of the Seas' here: time.com/6694506/us-n... Please share!
Some people may be wonderingβif the collections are going to end up in another herbarium, what is the big deal? The specimens and their data will still be protected, right? But that isn't the whole story... 1/n
The racism behind chatGPT we aren't talking about...
This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. π§΅
Educators: are you looking for excellent, peer-reviewed content for your world history classroom? Spread the word about this virtual workshop series that Pitt's Alliance for Learning in World History & Global Studies are co-sponsoring this spring, showcasing the awesome H21 project www.history21.com
Perks of roundtable events being moved to Zoom due to snow: getting to see panelistsβ cats!
Matilda (a torbie cat) laying on a pink blanket looking into the camera. Her glare has kept me pinned to my desk for three hours.
The cat has chosen to come out from her various hiding places to stare disapprovingly at me as I work towards deadlines⦠A very effective supervisor!