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Look for @drpawandhingra.bsky.social's book "Success Won't Save Us" early next year.
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New today: Despite a rising wave of anti-Asian racism, American studies scholar Pawan Dhingra believes Texas can look towards a history of tolerance and inclusivity to find a better way to react to our immigrant neighbors ...
How Texas Can Lead in Fighting Anti-Asian Racism
Rather than demonize immigrants as forever foreigners, the Texan thing has been to document their longstanding commitments to the state.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!
September 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Forms of Worship" by Ayodeji Ogunnaike which tracks the history of how diaspora and mission Christianity transformed devotion to Yoruba deities from a system of forms of worship into the most popular indigenous African religion.
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Cover of Forms of Worship: How Orisa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil by Ayodeji Ogunnaike. The cover is purple with two photographs at the bottom. The left photograph is of a parade of people wearing colorful clothing and playing music. The smaller photo is of people in white looking up at a window. The title and subtitle are written in a white serif font in the top left. The author’s name is directly below in yellow. To the right is a printed fabric pattern in purple.
September 18, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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When you try to get a "tiebreaker" third peer reviewer. Happy #PeerReviewWeek to everyone (even Weird Barbie)!
Three barbies, each representing Peer Reviewer 1 (regular barbie), peer reviewer 2 (supreme court justice barbie) and Peer Reviewer 3 (weird barbie)
September 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now:
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over of The Good Road: A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics by Carlota McAllister. The cover features a mural of a red truck carrying a group of people with two people behind it pushing. The title is in white serif letters across the center. A red background fades upward into the photograph. The subtitle is in smaller white serif text beneath the title, below is a dotted line then the author’s name in pale yellow italics.
September 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Naturalization" by Siobahn B. Somerville, which shows how naturalization has long functioned as both a powerful metaphor and a contradictory state practice at the core of the US settler colonial project.
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Cover of Naturalization: A Queer Genealogy of US Citizenship, Race, and Sexuality by Siobhan B. Somerville. The cover features dried plant stems interwoven with printed text, resembling a woven basket, against a blue background. The title appears in capitalized, pink serif font. The subtitle and author's name appear below in white and pale blue fonts. The text is on a split navy blue and dark blue block.
September 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Achille Mbembe has this line about the Enlightenment: "European discourse, both scholarly and popular, had a way of thinking, of classifying and imagining distant worlds, that was often based on modes of fantasizing. By presenting facts, often invented, as real, certain, and exact, it evaded
September 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Meet Kandice Chuh, our new associate provost and dean for the humanities and social sciences! Chuh shares her priorities, her principles, and the lessons she learned from her past www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-ass... @cunyenglish.bsky.social
New Associate Provost Wants to Reach the ‘Unlikely Humanists and Social Scientists’
Kandice Chuh has blazed a trail in higher education by countering conformity, and she brings that sensibility to her new role.
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September 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Good morning. Astonished to share that my first book is 12 years old today. Thanks for reading, teaching and supporting ❤️❤️❤️ @dukepress.bsky.social
Photo of the black and white cover of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ . The photo on the cover is of the artist photographer Carrie Mae Weems walking a cobblestone road by an ocean. She is wearing a long black dress and looks out to the sea. There is a bunch of blue, orange and purple balloons that read ‘happy birthday’ placed at the corner of the cover
September 17, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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We're excited about this workshop next week! Hope to see you there! @aaup.org @ncaaup.bsky.social
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Join Lauren M.E. Goodlad, editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social, for a workshop titled "Teaching Critical AI Literacies," next Thursday, 9/23, at 4:30 pm, in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall at @fhiduke.bsky.social

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September 16, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun, Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2026
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Introduction open access at this link
Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health
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September 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller.

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September 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Sophie's prize develops “multispecies agrarian studies”, how agricultural landscapes & futures emerge through relationships among humans, plants, animals, soils & economies, stressing climate justice, Indigenous science, & spiritual ecology
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September 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Congratulations to my brilliant colleague Sophie Chao: last week an ARC Future Fellowship for 4 years, this week a University Research Excellence & Inclusion Prize - Thompson. The Prize is awarded to high-performing women for researcher development
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September 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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This week on “Talking Culture,” presented by Duke Arts, Aaron Keck welcomes Mack Paul, the co-author of a new book called “Miracle Road: The Story of Research Triangle Park.”

Listen to their chat here 🎧:
Talking Culture: Exploring the History of RTP's 'Miracle Road,' with Mack Paul - Chapelboro.com
Aaron welcomes Mack Paul, co-author of "Miracle Road," a new book about the fascinating history of the Research Triangle Park.
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September 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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It was such a joy celebrating this award at the Puerto Rican Studies Association conference last week— truly a dream come true to win a Frank Bonilla Book award! 📚🇵🇷🎉
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Congratulations to @marinegron.bsky.social, author of "Made in NuYoRico," and @emmaamador.bsky.social, author of "The Politics of Care Work," whose books were named co-winners of the Frank Bonilla Book Award given by the Puerto Rican Studies Association. buff.ly/1nsJU8u buff.ly/t3HO5pu
Cover of Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice by Emma Amador. The cover features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone. The photograph has been edited with bright, monochromatic tints: the woman has a pink hue, the background a turquoise one, and the phone has a yellow tint. Cover of Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negrón. The cover’s background is solid orange. A ‘60s black and white photo of musicians in a crowded city street lays sideways across the cover’s center. The title text is enclosed in subway-sign-like circles.
September 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Join Lauren M.E. Goodlad, editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social, for a workshop titled "Teaching Critical AI Literacies," next Thursday, 9/23, at 4:30 pm, in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall at @fhiduke.bsky.social

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September 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Still Dangerous!", which collects the writings of Harmony Hammond, a leading figure in New York’s feminist and lesbian art movements.
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Cover of Still Dangerous!: The Harmony Hammond Reader by Harmony Hammond, edited by Tirza True Latimer. The cover is in black and white and features a photograph of Harmony Hammond wearing a cowboy hat and smiling. The title is written in an intentionally messy paint-like red font. The subtitle is in a serif font to the right of the photo. The author’s name is at the top in serif type. The editor’s name is at the bottom in white. To the right of this is written “with a Foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson” in the same type.
September 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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You can read more of Dr. Masters's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
September 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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"Halfway to Freedom" by Maurice Jackson is a social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of African Americans in Washington, DC. Read the intro for free now:
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Cover of Halfway to Freedom: The History of Black Washington, DC by Maurice Jackson. The cover is a print style featuring a line of people pushing the top of a monument up a steep hill. The people and the hill are black; the monument is off white, and the background is red orange. The title is written in a black sans serif font at the top of the cover. The subtitle is to the left of the image. Directly below is the author’s name.
September 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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I’m buying it. Today.
September 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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In "Radicalizing Men" Jessica Johnson examines the cultural, economic, and social factors that lead individuals to commit political violence in defense of an imagined white Christian homeland. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wBAorzi
Cover of Radicalizing Men: Fascist Desires, Great Replacement Propaganda, and Political Violence by Jessica Johnson. The cover has a black background with all text (title, subtitle, author's name) in large, bold white block letters centered on the page. There is a thin white border around the cover.
September 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Hispanic Heritage Month begins today! In celebration, we're highlighting our great new titles in Chicanx and Latinx studies on our blog today: buff.ly/QSY7Ce9
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white. Cover of The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech. The cover features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears on in white. The subtitle is below to the left in an italicized font fading from yellow to white. The editors’ names are in the bottom right. Cover of The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech. The cover features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears on in white. The subtitle is below to the left in an italicized font fading from yellow to white. The editors’ names are in the bottom right.
September 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Call for Papers:

The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law invites proposal submissions for a special issue on "The Politics of Mental Health," to be edited by Christopher Ojeda and Isabel Perera. Deadline for proposals: 11/2/26; for articles: 2/15/27.

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September 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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I am delighted to share our fall 2026 lineup for the #Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series!

Join us over Zoom for six terrific talks from October through December. All are welcome.

Details and registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #sts 🧪
September 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM