Congratulations to @Crystallynnweb, winner of AAIHS’s 2022 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize for "Transfiguring the Soul of Childhood": Du Bois's Private Vision and Public Activism for Black Children! Congratulations, @Crystallynnweb!!!

Is there room at the publishing table if you aren’t Toni Morrison or Terry McMillan? How do we make sense of the boon in African American authored books at the turn of the new millennium? How can best friends be co-authors? Answers to these questions and more on April 5!

I am so excited to share that my conversation with the incomparable Alice Walker will have ASL interpretation! All are welcome (and we truly mean that). Be sure to register if you have not already!

📢 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: My department is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in the BLACK ATLANTIC!!! Early deadline of Sept15. Teaching load: 2/2 Spread the news! P.S. I'm happy to talk to interested folks about life University of British Columbia and Vancouver esp as a Black, American woman

Polluters are stealing the future from our kids. And our leaders are letting it happen. It's time for them to protect our families, not polluters. act.newmode.social/775970446t

Thanks friend! Yes, vote for the wonderful candidates listed below (and me too 🤸🏾‍♀️)

Back again to promote this job at UBC in the BLACK ATLANTIC. Review of applications begins SEPTEMBER 15. I'm still available to answer questions. APPLY APPLY APPLY!

Job alert! The UBC History Department invites applications for an Assistant Professor of pre-1900 Black Atlantic/African diasporan history. For more information visit blackwomensstudies.com/job-posting-un…

After winning one of the inaugural David Ruggles Prize awards, Fine Books & Collections did a wonderful profile on me as a young collector. Check it out and let me know what you think: finebooksmagazine.com/blog/collectin…

This is the hardest thing I’ve worked on. It was full of enraging & shattering revelations that always hurt so much to find. Justin Simard & I tried to understand what we could of Isham’s life with care & are grateful to those who helped us do so. muse.jhu.edu/issue/49056

"The Underground Railroad was an act of Black memorialization when the freedoms won through the war were threatened by new iterations of anti-Black violence being used to dismantle Reconstruction," writes jwb today at Black Perspectives. aaihs.org/the-times-requ…

First up in the #JER most read of 2022 series is Crystal Webster’s “"Hanging Pretty Girls": The Criminalization of African American Children in Early America” from the #JERSummer2022 issue. Thank you @Crystallynnweb for this extraordinary essay: muse.jhu.edu/article/854129

Check out the season 6 opener from my favorite 19th century podcast!

Yes, friend! Your reflections (and insights) will be much appreciated!

In little more than 24 hours, you’ll have a chance to commiserate over the most ubiquitous of academic experiences—rejection and its aftermath. Register now!

Awww, thanks for your support, Jules!

Can’t wait!

Well, I guess there’s no turning back now…pennpress.org/9781512826470/…

UMass folks: we’re being asked to email the chancellor- we support the students, we are watching, we are outraged, stop the arrests, they have our full support and we support their demands fully! [email protected]