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Monica L. Mercado

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so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, feminist interventions in the museum, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻‍💻 🚗 | she/her

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · May 12

everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light

Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · 2d

Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: Rosalía’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release 🙏🏻

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d

Repro wins so far:

- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South

- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion

- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 5d

bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains

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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 6d

Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 8d

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · 22d

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 24

ahhhhh - congrats!!

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 24

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?

They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.

Is this just me or are others seeing it?

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Sep 23

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Sep 22

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 23

Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.

vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · Sep 22

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

www.thecrimson.com

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · Sep 19

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

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Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just…does the AHA need advertising money this bad?

Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 7

wow! I had no idea this was there 👀

Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Sep 1

Extremely hype for this!

Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · Aug 18

I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.