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Mexican Studies Research Collective
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 7d
"We are reminded that the impunity of the powerful is made possible by the complicity of the many and that such complicity depends on the indifference of those who watch and do nothing to intervene, let alone protest."
Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman
In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 8d
the kid from number 8
El Chavo Del Ocho (English Version) - SNL
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 11d
Explanation in Geography www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...
Explaining with David
David’s first book, Explanation in Geography, was a revolutionary tract. I came across it after enrolling in Geography at Bristol in 1969. Whereas Geography had largely practiced naive empiricism Bris...
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 13d
For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

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Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press Awards   SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize   The SCMS Gender and Feminisms ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 19d
JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · Sep 4
Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities www.schooljobs.com/careers/sewa...
Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities
The Environmental Arts and Humanities (EAH) program at the University of the South invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities to begin in Fall 2026. We wel...
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 24d
Taco mexicanists.org/2025/09/20/t...
Taco
by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Bloomsbury Academic Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic M…
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Susan Larson @susanlarson.bsky.social · 21d
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 21d
looking forward @cristinaele.bsky.social & @sierramatute.bsky.social
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · May 6
We have the book cover! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social for gorgeous design and to Museum of Yugoslavia for the permission to feature Petar Lubarda's painting 'Buđenje Afrike' / 'The Awakening of Africa' on the cover. Link to NUP's book page and more info about the painting in comments.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · Sep 9
Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad mexicanists.org/2025/09/09/q...
Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad
by David Tenorio University of Michigan Press In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a “gay-friendly” city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers o…
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 29d
Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens mexicanists.org/2025/09/10/b...
Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens
Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a conversation with Iván Aguirre Eusebio Darancou (University of California, Riverside) to celebrate the publication of Consuming Citizens: Cou…
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 24d
a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native ... @isanchezprado.bsky.social discusses the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by history and geography.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 24d
Taco mexicanists.org/2025/09/20/t...
Taco
by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Bloomsbury Academic Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic M…
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24d
Opening today at Met Museum, stunning survey of African-American artist John Wilson (1922-2015), who spent much of his life & career in Boston area. Features a wide range of Wilson's work, including his heartfelt, contemplative portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Installation shot of John Wilson show at the Met, featuring large sculptural head Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · 29d
Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens mexicanists.org/2025/09/10/b...
Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens
Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a conversation with Iván Aguirre Eusebio Darancou (University of California, Riverside) to celebrate the publication of Consuming Citizens: Cou…
mexicanists.org
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Sep 13
“Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.” —José Saramago
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · Sep 13
My forthcoming edited book Teaching the Mexican Revolution’s catalog page
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · Sep 11
I had an amazing time talking about "The Fate of the Americas" with Lillian Guerra--what an honor to discuss my book with one of the top Cuba experts in the world! 1/3
#History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social
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Conversatorio Cubano with Dr. Renata Keller
In this Conversatorio Cubano, Dr. Lillian Guerra interviews Dr. Renata Keller, associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, discussing the larger geographic impact of the Cuban Re...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Sep 10
Here we go: copies of my edited volume!
Folk holding two copies of an academic edited volume titled Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds", edited by Víctor Sierra Matute.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · Sep 9
Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad mexicanists.org/2025/09/09/q...
Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad
by David Tenorio University of Michigan Press In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a “gay-friendly” city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers o…
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Sep 9
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · Sep 4
Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Dissent Magazine
Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfi...
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @msrcollective.bsky.social · Sep 4
Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities www.schooljobs.com/careers/sewa...
Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities
The Environmental Arts and Humanities (EAH) program at the University of the South invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities to begin in Fall 2026. We wel...
www.schooljobs.com
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