Ping-hsiu Alice Lin
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology @Havard | Gems, labor & geological histories in Afghanistan-Pakistan
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From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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csshjournal.bsky.social
In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History

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illdottore.bsky.social
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
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professorvbrown.bsky.social
“Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind.”

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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe
When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...
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thatminesgirl.bsky.social
Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics
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Limn 12 Spotlight Series

Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out.

Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now.

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Escape to the Country, by Sarah Besky & Yojak Tamang
Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn
#Himalaya #Tourism
Escape to the Country - Limn
How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?
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ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social
Durba Mitra's fabulous new book is now live! Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!!
alibinglin.bsky.social
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
doi.org
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csshjournal.bsky.social
Read more about the issue's authors, including Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv, Koreen M. Reece,
Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido,
Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here:

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Volume 67, Issue 3 – Comparative Studies in Society and History
Meet the authors of the 67-3 issue, July 2025.
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Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
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Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.
Jay Ulfelder resignation letter 20250122.pdf
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ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).

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@UChicagoPress

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Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
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armanc.bsky.social
Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the
American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster.
📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
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#ElifIremAz — American Anthropologist
five poems and one intermission from The Black Shape of Living by e. irem az Please download the PDF to read the poems without losing their form. PLACE Soma Coal Basin,...
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