Asheesh Kapur Siddique
@asheeshksi.bsky.social
History & political economy of culture
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December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
we live in hell
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
we live in hell
But being on leave every three years really took the edge off! academic-appointments.fas.harvard.edu/c-leaves-abs...
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
But being on leave every three years really took the edge off! academic-appointments.fas.harvard.edu/c-leaves-abs...
Do you think Lepore ever considers the plight of all the contingent faculty members who do the heavy teaching & admin work at Harvard for very little pay while she enjoys a sabbatical every 3 years?
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Do you think Lepore ever considers the plight of all the contingent faculty members who do the heavy teaching & admin work at Harvard for very little pay while she enjoys a sabbatical every 3 years?
What if @umassamherst.bsky.social just gave faculty time, space, resources to actually do research?
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What if @umassamherst.bsky.social just gave faculty time, space, resources to actually do research?
Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Why is the Chronicle platforming Chris Rufo? We desperately need a serious higher ed media outlet.
September 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Why is the Chronicle platforming Chris Rufo? We desperately need a serious higher ed media outlet.
this is a horrible, thoroughly embarrassing piece
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
this is a horrible, thoroughly embarrassing piece
So so good:
September 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
So so good:
I don't think AI is the biggest threat to the American historical profession.
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don't think AI is the biggest threat to the American historical profession.
very informative!!
May 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
very informative!!
Doing some research and came across an article by someone I have not thought about in a long time . . .
May 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Doing some research and came across an article by someone I have not thought about in a long time . . .
Only tenured Ivy League professor brain could have produced this sentence:
April 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Only tenured Ivy League professor brain could have produced this sentence:
Chairs of history departments are also not super optimistic about the future of the discipline
April 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Chairs of history departments are also not super optimistic about the future of the discipline
Bad news for the American historical profession in this new data from @rbtownsend.bsky.social - appears that history departments are only replacing a little over 1/2 of faculty who retire or leave www.amacad.org/sites/defaul... 🗃️
April 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bad news for the American historical profession in this new data from @rbtownsend.bsky.social - appears that history departments are only replacing a little over 1/2 of faculty who retire or leave www.amacad.org/sites/defaul... 🗃️
Congratulations @parhee.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to read it!
April 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Congratulations @parhee.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to read it!
Imagine, that as accelerating authoritarianism is destroying the academy, your answer to this question is: “don’t be partisan” 🙄
April 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Imagine, that as accelerating authoritarianism is destroying the academy, your answer to this question is: “don’t be partisan” 🙄
The devastating impact of the cuts to the NEH: state humanities councils will be forced to shut down. These terrible impacts will be felt literally everywhere in this country.
April 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The devastating impact of the cuts to the NEH: state humanities councils will be forced to shut down. These terrible impacts will be felt literally everywhere in this country.
Harvard capitulates to Trump, because, it says otherwise it will lose federal funds. But Trump is eliminating those funds anyway! He’s reducing the NIH etc to nothing! It’s so stupid to give in!
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Harvard capitulates to Trump, because, it says otherwise it will lose federal funds. But Trump is eliminating those funds anyway! He’s reducing the NIH etc to nothing! It’s so stupid to give in!
If you set aside some of the implausible observations here ("less prestigious faculty"? More like brilliant contingent academic workers who are denied resources to do their research) and the genuinely new threat to foreign students, many of these bad things are already true about many universities
March 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you set aside some of the implausible observations here ("less prestigious faculty"? More like brilliant contingent academic workers who are denied resources to do their research) and the genuinely new threat to foreign students, many of these bad things are already true about many universities
The proposed creation of "post-tenure review" in the Ohio legislation (p. 19) also highlights that tenure may not be meaningful protection against the current authoritarian attacks on academic freedom: search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/gener...
March 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The proposed creation of "post-tenure review" in the Ohio legislation (p. 19) also highlights that tenure may not be meaningful protection against the current authoritarian attacks on academic freedom: search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/gener...
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM