Everyone in Philadelphia should go see my friend @riverlys.bsky.social speak!!

Everybody in higher ed has questions these days. For example, admins ask "how can we get faculty to incorporate AI into their classes?" while faculty ask "can I come in to campus to teach my classes without being abducted by an unlawful paramilitary force?"

The Revealer’s Winter Reading and Podcast Recommendations — The Revealer Our recommended books and podcasts by contributors to The Revealer

Looking for great books or an excellent podcast series? Here is our *annual list of winter reading and listening recommendations.* Featuring excellent work by @thislynne.bsky.social, @katherinestewart.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com, @adriennekrone.bsky.social, & more!

It’s an honor to have Free-Range Religion included on this @therevealer.bsky.social list alongside some amazing religious studies books!

How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA - UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Adrienne Krone, author of Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States which is now available wherever books are sold. ...

How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today?

@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️

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Free-Range Religion is here!!! It’s not officially out until November 11 but you can order your copy now on the @uncpress.bsky.social website!

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Free-Range Religion Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identities and expressions. These concerns extend beyond what one s...

@uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including pre-orders of mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50!

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Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Body Problems

And I preordered this book and also can’t wait to read it!!

@wolffdr.bsky.social 🎉

www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems

Nope because hopefully your reviewers won’t disappear/take 2 years!

That’s still totally doable! I submitted a full manuscript of book 1 in summer ‘22 and even with a super long ~2 year review process, I had page proofs in hand last month!

Totally fair! But you’ll get there too!

I agree - a full manuscript was also my goal for my sabbatical and I got about halfway there, which I’m counting as a win in what ended up being another tough year!

Ugh. I got this on a teaching observation a few years ago - a colleague wrote that I speak in a vocal fry/upspeak/sing-song tone and suggested I work on “professional communication.” Luckily, my chair had my back and had it removed before the letter went into my file 🙃

Day 3 of the Summer Institute begins!

“Academic freedom is a job condition, not a privilege…this is a matter of democratic education.”

—Rana Jaleel, Chair of AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure, Morning Plenary “Protecting Academic Freedom: How to Build an Effective Issue Campaign.”

Solidarity dinner (okay really mostly drinks) with the other Penn @aaup.org chapter members tonight! @aaup-penn.bsky.social @adriennekrone.bsky.social @rosibarbera.bsky.social

This is a concentration camp

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

The act of writing can serve many purposes. It can be used to inform. It can be used to resist. It can be used to heal. Jasmin Graham & I wrote an essay about our terminated NSF grant, and hopefully, it accomplishes some of those goals.

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The Complexities of Secularization: A Dive into American Religious Trends - UNC Press Blog The following is a guest post by Zaid Adhami, associate professor of religion at Williams College and author of Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith, publishing next week. “Am...

"The fact of the matter is that trends in American religious life have been fundamentally ambiguous for decades."

Zaid Adhami dives into transformations in American religious life and his new book DILEMMAS OF AUTHENTICITY on the blog ⤵️

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Young Scholars in American Religion applications are open until May 19th! Apply to be part of an amazing program, but don't just take our word for it, hear from past YSAR member Adrienne Krone!
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I would love to be added - thanks!

I forgot to tag UNC Press even though without them, this wouldn’t be a book! Thanks to everyone at @uncpress.bsky.social!

Free-Range Religion | Adrienne Krone | University of North Carolina Press Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identities and expressions. These concerns extend beyond what one s...

My book is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site! It won’t be out until November but if you’re as excited as I am about religious alternative food movements, you can use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!

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I don’t know how Hulu’s algorithm works, but childless Jews watching Abbott Elementary can’t possibly be the target audience for ads about Liberty University’s K-12 homeschool program 👀

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.

Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop.