Historian of science and technology @ Duke
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My first history of science course in grad school and second history of science course ever! Brings me back to good times w/ @aAcciavatti_sc and @mmfajardoh and others. Can't wait to see the final verdict on when & how we're allowed to call historical figures "charlatans."
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Humanists & social scientists: working on chemical substances/concepts/data? Working these into your methods? Wanna see about doing so together? "Chemical Humanities & History of Chemistry," FoHCS-sponsored HSS 2021 panel, proposals due 4/7. Call: evanheplersmith.com/s/FoHCS_…
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Dean Ashby drops in on @ehepler Prof. Hepler-Smith's HIST 235 class!
Dean Valerie Ashby on why she has been dropping into Trinity courses this fall: “I live to teach and, in my present job, I don’t get to do this very much. But when I teach, I learn.” #MondayMotivation
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Will be teaching ethnographic research methods this fall for @HarvardAnthro, online, with students engaging in fieldwork projects all over the world and coming together to discuss the process. A challenge and an opportunity!
I don’t typically get worked up about podcasts, but the @lrieppel + Eugenia Lean New Books is outstanding — a great overview of Eugenia’s new book, and also an incisive + accessible take on, like, what’s up in global history of science, tech, capitalism podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Psyched to assign to my undergrads (and hopefully get a few more readers for a wonderful book). Thanks Lukas + Eugenia + @NewBooksSTS + @ColumbiaUP ! cup.columbia.edu/book/vernac…
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In response to the disproportionate effect the current economic downturn has had on independent scholars & those w/o tenured positions, ACLS will redirect the focus of the ACLS Fellowship Program to support early career, non-tenured scholars exclusively: bit.ly/2CSyfqp
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Last Friday, I found a startling piece of historical evidence that shed new light on the meaning of the Confederate monument on the @OleMissRebels campus.
I'm grateful to have had the chance to write about it for @TheAtlantic.
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Supporting my students and researching and writing about the past *is* my job. That is what "being a professor and teaching" is all about.
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The greatest lie ever told was that "a majority of Mississippians" supported slavery, secession, the Confederacy, and the Civil War.
The majority of Mississippians in the 1860s were black.
If you can get everyone to swallow that whopper, everything else is small potatoes.
Reflecting on how I will hold myself and others accountable, now and in the future, for acting on the important commitments expressed in the @hssonline Statement on the Death of George Floyd & Racism in the US:
hssonline.org/2020/06/16/sta…
"We pledge to actively elevate the work of Black scholars and dismantle racism against all Black, indigenous, and people of color in the fabric of our discipline and our institutions."