all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

We 🫶 our grad students! Our master’s and doctoral students do it all—balancing coursework and thesis or dissertation research while showing up as incredible TAs, teaching associates, and research assistants.🧡🌎 #gpsaw #gradstudentappreciationweek

Where can you find UTK at #AAG2026 next week? Scroll this 🧵 or click the 🔗 below to check out some of the papers, posters, and panels we’re part of at the annual meeting in San Francisco starting March 17!

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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I love the Olympics because people in my life know that I’m the figure skater / judge who can answer their questions.

My love language: making baked goods for people I care about 🤍

This isn’t just about where objects travel. It’s who gets to decide when, how, and for how long communities can access their own histories.

A loan assumes ownership, authority, and the right to take something back. It says: this is ours, but we’ll let you use it (for now). That keeps colonial power over other people’s heritage firmly in place.

British Museum Launches Long-Term Loan Program to Former Colonies The British Museum has launched a new scheme that will see it share artifacts in its collection with museums in former British colonies.

Describing the “loan” of objects taken through colonial violence as “positive” or “very innovative” doesn’t hold up. It leaves the colonial system that put those objects there completely intact.

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It feels so good! 🧡

Because nothing says “one week till your dissertation defense!” like having a broken foot.

All images from the Beauford Delaney Papers, MS.3967, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire.

On this day 70 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.

On display at UT Libraries are these sketches done by Beauford Delaney, which precede his Rosa Parks series. They include phrases like "Ain't getting up" and "I will not be moved."

I really loved reading and reviewing Southern Beauty and highly recommend it!

PhD Candidate Katrina Stack @katgeographic.bsky.social presented “Remapping Black Paris: Walking Tours as Embodied Archives and Cartographies” at the REP Conference last week in Albuquerque! Her collaborators are her advisor Derek Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social and Monique Y. Wells.

My dissertation defense is scheduled!!

I just sent my dissertation to my committee and asked to schedule my defense.

Check out these call for papers and panelist for #AAG2026 ! If you have a CGSG sponsored session you’d would like us to share, please email the graphic to our grad rep at jlh7707@psu.edu

We are excited to invite you to a one-hour virtual Graduate Program Information Session for the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT

Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo

Thank you! I am really excited about the conversations that could develop in this!

Inspired by Katherine McKittrick’s 2025 AAG Stanley Brunn Award lecture, this panel will explore the tensions between sharing stories and protecting them, particularly when working with or within marginalized communities.

@demonicgrounds.bsky.social

📢 Call for Panelists | #AAG2026
“Ethics, Creativity, and Refusal in Storytelling and Scholarship”

Interested in joining our panel? Email 📩
kstack@vols.utk.edu + EFrazier@MissouriState.edu

Full panel description ⬇️
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guess no one foresaw a president demolishing some of the east wing in 1966.

where was the section 106 review on this?

recent baking:
• dirty chai snickerdoodles
• caramel apple macarons
• dubai chocolate macarons
• brown sugar poptart bars

I really mean it when I say that I hope I can be as good of an advisor and mentor to my future students as my advisors and mentors have been to me throughout the years.

yay field trips! 🧡 loved spending time in @greatsmokynps.bsky.social !

Gave a tour of my exhibit and approved the page proofs of the exhibition album I wrote today!

I trial judged at my first figure skating competition! While it was challenging, I really loved being immersed in skating for a whole weekend ❤️⛸️

As the resident Swiftie and social media girlie of my department, you know I had to ❤️‍🔥