Citizen scholar & civic impresario. Dir Strategic Partnership @humanities. Global Fellow @TheWilsonCenter. Pragmatist, democrat, internationalist, dad.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined April 2017
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This piece deserves what it dishes out: bold yet thoughtful, gracious, and humble engagement with nuanced perspectives on a complex issue. Are historians up to the task? Will the Twitterverse reveal the answer? Stay tuned to @JohannNeem's feed!
If not for academic conferences, I never would have been invited to the Marriott Bonvoy rewards program or earned Sky Priority status with Delta. Also think my conference-going has resulted in publication opportunities. But writing off travel expenses & getting rewards is nice.
Oh yeah...the link! lptv.org/traveling-exhibit-w…
This was fun! Tiny but mighty Pine River MN and @happydturtle put on an incredible #WeAreWaterMN exhibit opening-and thx to @LakelandPBS it's documented for posterity! Proud to represent @humanities and partners @MnPCA @MNagriculture @mndnr @mnhealth @MNBWSR @mnhs @UMNExt
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This was fun! Tiny but mighty Pine River MN and @happydturtle put on an incredible #WeAreWaterMN exhibit opening-and thx to @LakelandPBS it's documented for posterity! Proud to represent @humanities and partners @MnPCA @MNagriculture @mndnr @mnhealth @MNBWSR @mnhs @UMNExt
This was fun! Tiny but mighty Pine River MN and @happydturtle put on an incredible #WeAreWaterMN exhibit opening-and thx to @LakelandPBS it's documented for posterity! Proud to represent @humanities and partners @MnPCA @MNagriculture @mndnr @mnhealth @MNBWSR @mnhs @UMNExt
Even on a rainy day, kids and families love a good story! So happy @humanities could help our neighbors celebrate #ChildrensBooks: mnhum.org/event/childrens-bo…
For more on @humanities and civics--incl our #ThirdWayCivics initiative for undergraduate civic learning--see mnhum.org/third-way-civics-e… and mnhum.org.
Thks @WCCO @heatherbrown21 and @AJHilton_News for speaking with me about challenges and opportunities for history and civic learning: cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/…
Thks @WCCO @heatherbrown21 and @AJHilton_News for speaking with me about challenges and opportunities for history and civic learning: cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/…
So proud to be involved in this work, which draws in part on the #ThirdWayCivics initiative of @humanities!
Grant worth more than $1.3 million to revitalize civics education in Muncie Community Schools and beyond ballstatedaily.com/article/2… #MCS-BSU-CREATE
Do you care about #history, #literature, #civics, #poetry, #jurisprudence, #localculture, #culturalheritage, #language, or any of the ways humans understand each other and themselves? Ask your Representatives and Senators to fund the @NEHgov at at least $211 million.
Great to be part of this @MNSUMankato / @humanities / @MNMilMuseum project bringing the legacies of 9/11 to life through personal stories: mnhum.org/event/the-legacy-o…
Just got my copy of The Green New Deal and the Future of Work, out now from Columbia UP, incl. my essay w/ Harry Boyte on "Rethinking the Green New Deal: From War to Work": cup.columbia.edu/book/the-gr… via @ColumbiaUP. Thx @craigjcalhoun and Ben Fong @ASU
Excited to attend this year's CENTRAL HONORS PHILANDO event in St. Paul on Sun, Aug 21! Help us celebrate Philando Castile's life and support some of St. Paul Central High's most resilient young scholars: centralhonorsphilando.org/
A provocative argument deserving a fair hearing as well as critical scrutiny: It’s Time for Universal Voting prospect.org/politics/its-ti…
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Catch @TheWilsonCenter webinar “Past, Present, and Future of International Organization” today at 1:30–3:00pm EST. Moderated by @throntv, @tizistella and @CampbellCraig1 will discuss history and its challenges to trends in international organization.
RSVP: ow.ly/R6hX50JHzBY
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In which @tizistella, @throntv and I get into it on the failure of substantial forms of international organisation in the 20th century. Spoiler alert: the stakes of another failure are now higher. wilsoncenter.org/event/past-…
Climate change; global pandemic; a war of aggression by a nuclear power; can an int'l system founded on national sovereignty ever cope? Join me, @tizistella, & @CampbellCraig1 to explore the history of int'l org and lessons for today: wilsoncenter.org/event/past-…
Thanks to @KetteringFdn for the opportunity to learn from and share with their network of democracy scholars, and for publishing these brief reflections: kettering.org/blogs/jamesian…