2-year Postdocs for #earlyModern #twitterstorians interested in #slaveryarchive. Deadline: Feb. 12, 2024 (and you get to spend time in the chocolate capital of Italy, #Torino at the Turin Humanities Programme )

Happy to see another publication of mine in print. "Nacionalismo criollo desacreditado. La problemática recepción de Benedict Anderson entre especialistas de las independencias." doi.org/10.48160/18520…

Interested in global history? Well, make an effort to read languages other than English. One of the leading journals in Intellectual history, Prismas, has just come out, with a dossier on B. Anderson's 40 years of Imagined Communities, ed. by Lila Caimari and Michael Goebel...

Acaba de salir Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual, n°27, 2023. Incluye un dossier editado por Lila Caimari y Michael Goebel sobre los 40 años de Comunidades Imaginadas. prismas.unq.edu.ar/OJS/index.php/…

🚩One 3-year postdoctoral fellowship & five 2-year research contracts to work with Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on her ERC project ‘The Cultural History of the Black Diaspora in Early Modern Spain’! (deadline: 15/2/2024) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179776 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179781

Just under a week left to apply for our permanent lectureship in early modern history (deadline 12 Jan): jobs.ac.uk/job/DET180/lec…

When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opi…

My Oxford bibliography on "The Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Atlantic" is now live. oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docume…

Short video of me playing palos (Afro-Dominican music) during the 2024 fiestas patronales of Monte Plata, my mother's hometown. I play in NY, but it feels different when playing on the island. Atabales, Fiestas Patronales, Monte Plata, 2024 youtu.be/K_zuKCYxinU?si… via YouTube

I've been at the AGI for almost two weeks. The fact that we can now take unlimited pictures makes a really big difference. I will take home a large amount of documents for my second book project. For graduate students, this is also a game changer. Glad the AGI took this step!

¿Alguien tiene fotos de Santo Domingo 178A o 178B del AGI? Tengo que escribir un capítulo sobre la Jamaica española pero el AGI está digitalizando estos legajos ahora y no puedo consultarlos. ¡Gracias por compartir! Juan José Ponce Vázquez Dr. Danielle Terrazas Williams Fidel J. Tavárez Jesse Cromwell

Hello historians! Does anyone have access to David Murray's "The slave trade, slavery and Cuban independence"? doi.org/10.1080/014403… I am not able to access it through my campus. Thanks in advance.

Come and work with us at UCSB History! We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of 20th-century Mexican history. recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02835

I just discovered that somebody recorded me playing atabales (Afro-Dominican drums) last year in Monte Plata, DR. Atabales de Monte Plata. Fiestas patronales 2024. youtu.be/B0MxP0lwFk0?si… via YouTube

📣 Call for Applications! The Americas is now accepting applications for the 2025–26 Vault Associate! The Associate will curate a guide to a historiographical issue based on articles from The Americas archives, culminating in an original essay published on the journal website.

My book has a cover. Excited to see the work of so many years coming together. Many thanks to Oxford University Press for all the work they've put into the project.

My latest book review. How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History. By Felipe Fernánez-Armestoand Manuel Lucena Giraldo . London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 352. $40.00 cloth. | The Americas | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4nJuTqD

My book is already available for pre-order at the Oxford University Press website. global.oup.com/academic/produ…