Historian of science and technology @ Duke
Joined January 2012
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Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
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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Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
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!
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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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Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
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.
Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
In light of @hssonline's statement on the death of #GeorgeFloyd & racism in the U.S., today's #histSTM lunchtime read is the Open Conversations section of the most recent @IsisJournal, which examines how diversity in #histsci can be a force for justice.
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Historians of human sciences: Please consider this an invitation for @hssonline 2020.
To a convo about our shared values & a planning session for how the Forum will change its practices. 1/5
FHHS Statement in Support of Black Lives
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To say that this has been a very difficult week is an understatement. Follow reporting from @jamepdx thecrimson.com/article/2020/…
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Raleigh's fourth night of protests ended peacefully two hours past curfew Tuesday night. This time, police kept their distance and did try to break up the protesters.
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It’s about respect & human decency and how we share that with each other. #ShowYouCare
latimes.com/opinion/story/20… – at Newport Beach, CA
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“For many people, the lived experience of police violence and toxic exposure—these different forms of physical vulnerability both live together. We have to think of them together instead of thinking of them separately.” @lindseyld, EDGI member citylab.com/equity/2016/07/h…
Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
My latest, "The Myth of the Constitutional Given: Enumeration and National Power at the Founding."
It explores early understandings of and debates over the Constitution's preamble and what, for members of the Founding generation, that implied about the scope national power.
Live on the AULR forum: @TheGNapp's latest piece for the Law Review titled "The Myth of the Constitutional Given: Enumeration and National Power at the Founding"! Check it out here: aulawreview.org/the-myth-of-…
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What were the five most important video games to you throughout your youth/teen years? No curating to look cool/interesting please
Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
If you're free on Monday (May 18) at 12pm pacific time, @ehepler will be e-visiting @UCLASocGen with a talk about changeless change within regimes of chemical regulation entitled, "Substitution: A halogenated history of ‘essential’ chemistries" DM me if you'd like the zoom link!
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Beyond impressed by the remarkable work of my advisee, Elizabeth Lindqwister @elindqw, who, as part of her @librarycongress fellowship, co-authored this superb multimedia history: "Susie King Taylor: An African American Nurse and Teacher in the Civil War." loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.ht…
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inspiring e-hosting for an event next month: They moved travel $ to generous honoraria (extra for un/under-employed); curating keynotes, small group time, 1-1 time; paid mentorship meetings after the event; 2 hours of screen time a day over 4 days; A+ spreadsheet game.
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“[A] federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump’s EPA violated regulatory procedure when it removed restrictions on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a widely used chemical refrigerant and climate super-pollutant.”
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Evan Hepler-Smith retweeted
Does anyone have tips for making masks more effective w a beard? Im asking at the request of people on the inside that have beards for religious reasons and have cellmates that are all over the facility (w confirmed cases) for work. They’re sleeping w their mask on, terrified.