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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 49m

Tercera circular del congreso internacional“El Caribe, encrucijada del Mundo Atlántico” (Feb. 2026 en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷). Manden sus propuestas antes del 30 de octubre. 🌎 #CaribbeanStudies #estudioscaribeños

Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 3d

#hispanicheritagemonth poetry reading gala at #LehighUniversity organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement #poetry #latinxpoetry

Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 4d

#hispanicheritagemonth celebrations at Lehigh University! 🦋 organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic!!! 👏🏽👏🏽

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Some good advice SPOTTED over I-440 in Nashville…

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 26d

I got interviewed last tonight at Carpenter’s Hall, birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States (the First Continental Congress met here in 1774) #publichistory #AmericanRevolution

Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mileístas in Argentina, also wear Trump paraphernalia

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 9

another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 9

jfc

Jeffrey I remember in the mid 1970s you being a star salesman for our tax advantaged strategies and hedged option program. I was running an account for Bob Maxwell. You always had the ability to know everyone and be charming. Was that when you first discovered the Maxwell teen-age daughter... Happy Birthday
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hi all,

I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.

As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Nathan

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello!

I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.

Learn more about me and my work here:

nathanellstrand.com

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 #academicjob alert My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: a new Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 #academicjob alert My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: a new Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Spanish translation of my friend Mikael Wolfe's book on the Mexican Revolution and the environment is now available for download! www.palabradeclio.com.mx/src_pdf/Repa...

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 22

***Job Opportunity***

Assistant Professor, 20th/21st Century US and the World, Lehigh University

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Landon Block is a college student & journalist who grew up in Encinitas. Here's his Times of San Diego op ed about the ICE kidnapping near his childhood elementary school:

"Opinion: ICE arrest of parent near my Encinitas school is just cruelty"

timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: ICE arrest of parent near my Encinitas school is just cruelty

The status quo of sitting by as our neighbors are abducted from the streets by masked agents without identification or warrants is unconscionable.

timesofsandiego.com

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Aug 23

Well said!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happy weekend!

Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍

From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask is 27 cm in height (about 10.5 inches). There’s a spout at the top with a small handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with writhing tentacles covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Each of the eight writhing arms are lined with suckers. Between the tentacles are motifs representing the seabed, such as sea urchins, tritons and small rocks with seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is dated c. 1500-1450 BC, the Late Minoan IB ceramic period. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum. NB it is currently out on loan.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 1

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for August 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Jul 30

***Historians***

Will you be attending the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) Annual Meeting in Santa Clara, CA?

If so, check out my paper presentation, "Sanctuary Campuses: Student Activism from the Mid-1980s to Today" as part of panel 6 at 8:30 AM Thursday.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Jul 28

#Blueskystorians of the world unite!!!

-Which history book has left in you with the feeling ‘I want to write something like this’?

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions (I am putting together the syllabus for the History research methods grad seminar I am teaching in the fall)

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Jul 28

#Blueskystorians of the world unite!!!

-Which history book has left in you with the feeling ‘I want to write something like this’?

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions (I am putting together the syllabus for the History research methods grad seminar I am teaching in the fall)

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lehigh University Press + Bloomsbury = Great News 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 lupress.lehigh.edu/news/2025-lu...

LUP Collaboration with Bloomsbury Publishing

Lehigh University Press partners with Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations ‪Bárbara 🎉 this award-winning article is now free to access ✨
@lehighu.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · May 23

My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an eighteenth-century library that crisscrossed the Atlantic

This study examines the “life” of an eighteenth-century private library that migrated from Spain to New Spain in 1765 and returned, greatly reduced, back to Europe in 1772. The collection’s owner w...

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