Brannon Ingram
@brannoningram.bsky.social
Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
Academics work years on something and when it finally comes out say "With apologies for cross-posting" while announcing it to their colleagues. Don't apologize! I have never once thought "I already saw that announcement on the other email list. I think an apology is due here."
August 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Academics work years on something and when it finally comes out say "With apologies for cross-posting" while announcing it to their colleagues. Don't apologize! I have never once thought "I already saw that announcement on the other email list. I think an apology is due here."
Muslim-Christian entanglements in Umayyad Syria: a Muslim man threatens a priest because the priest refused to give his Christian wife communion. Incredible detail.
- John Tolan, Islam: A New History, 40, citing Lev Weitz, Between Christ and Caliph, 201-2
- John Tolan, Islam: A New History, 40, citing Lev Weitz, Between Christ and Caliph, 201-2
August 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Muslim-Christian entanglements in Umayyad Syria: a Muslim man threatens a priest because the priest refused to give his Christian wife communion. Incredible detail.
- John Tolan, Islam: A New History, 40, citing Lev Weitz, Between Christ and Caliph, 201-2
- John Tolan, Islam: A New History, 40, citing Lev Weitz, Between Christ and Caliph, 201-2
Academic publishing can be absurdly slow. Two pieces I wrote in 2021 (a chapter in an edited volume and an encyclopedia article) have yet to come out.
August 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Academic publishing can be absurdly slow. Two pieces I wrote in 2021 (a chapter in an edited volume and an encyclopedia article) have yet to come out.
Gestapo behavior, yes, but honestly any goon right now can cover their face, claim they’re ICE, and rob a family blind with impunity, especially if the victims are brown
June 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Gestapo behavior, yes, but honestly any goon right now can cover their face, claim they’re ICE, and rob a family blind with impunity, especially if the victims are brown
When I discovered this podcast I literally thought “I wonder when they’re going to do Schmitt”
May 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I discovered this podcast I literally thought “I wonder when they’re going to do Schmitt”
Immensely proud of my wife and the whole PM team! So excited for the world to see this film. Coming to a theater near you in June. Special preview screenings with live Q-and-A on June 8! deadline.com/2025/05/jaci...
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Docu ‘Prime Minister’ Acquired By Magnolia, HBO Docu Films & CNN Films After Prize-Winning Sundance Bow
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's documentary 'Prime Minister' has been acquired by Magnolia, HBO Documentary Films and CNN Films.
deadline.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Immensely proud of my wife and the whole PM team! So excited for the world to see this film. Coming to a theater near you in June. Special preview screenings with live Q-and-A on June 8! deadline.com/2025/05/jaci...
The president of my university is headed to DC to beg the former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, now Secretary of Education, to prioritize cancer and Parkinson’s research over the administration’s vendetta against pro Palestine students and critical race theory. Totally normal.
University President Michael Schill is in Washington D.C. for a meeting today with the U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon amid the Trump administration’s Tuesday freeze on $790 million federal funds for Northwestern.
Schill to meet with Education Sec. Linda McMahon
University President Michael Schill is in Washington D.C. for a meeting today with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon amid the Trump administration’s Tuesday freeze on $790 million in federal f...
dailynorthwestern.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The president of my university is headed to DC to beg the former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, now Secretary of Education, to prioritize cancer and Parkinson’s research over the administration’s vendetta against pro Palestine students and critical race theory. Totally normal.
American conservatives would be more welcome on university campuses if they stopped being proudly ignorant know-nothings and reconnected with their intellectual roots
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
American conservatives would be more welcome on university campuses if they stopped being proudly ignorant know-nothings and reconnected with their intellectual roots
Insisting college courses give a 50-50 perspective on every issue is the conservative version of equality of outcomes
April 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Insisting college courses give a 50-50 perspective on every issue is the conservative version of equality of outcomes
Academic presses, please stop offering to pay reviewers in books. People need money, not books.
March 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Academic presses, please stop offering to pay reviewers in books. People need money, not books.
I am once again calling for a federal ban on academic e-books without page numbers
February 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am once again calling for a federal ban on academic e-books without page numbers
Everyone in academia, especially administrators, should read this piece. The DOE’s recent interpretation of SCOTUS’s 2023 decision misinterprets race-neutrality as devaluing racial diversity itself, even though that 2023 ruling explicitly values racial diversity.
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Everyone in academia, especially administrators, should read this piece. The DOE’s recent interpretation of SCOTUS’s 2023 decision misinterprets race-neutrality as devaluing racial diversity itself, even though that 2023 ruling explicitly values racial diversity.
My article "The Queen's Urdu: Translating Colonial Secularity in Victoria's 1858 Proclamation" is now open-access from Cambridge. This is a preview of a major argument I am making in my upcoming book. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Queen's Urdu: Translating Colonial Secularity in Victoria's 1858 Proclamation | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
The Queen's Urdu: Translating Colonial Secularity in Victoria's 1858 Proclamation - Volume 52 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My article "The Queen's Urdu: Translating Colonial Secularity in Victoria's 1858 Proclamation" is now open-access from Cambridge. This is a preview of a major argument I am making in my upcoming book. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A tenure track opening at the American University in Cairo for historians of Asia and the modern world: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A tenure track opening at the American University in Cairo for historians of Asia and the modern world: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
It’s cute how this Malaysian journal from 1938 gently cajoles this Japanese businessman to convert
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It’s cute how this Malaysian journal from 1938 gently cajoles this Japanese businessman to convert
Chicago friends: a colleague’s stepdaughter has organized a night of Irish and Palestinian music to raise funds for Gaza relief. Saturday might at the Irish American Heritage Center. Posting the Chicago Reader write up on the event below.
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Chicago friends: a colleague’s stepdaughter has organized a night of Irish and Palestinian music to raise funds for Gaza relief. Saturday might at the Irish American Heritage Center. Posting the Chicago Reader write up on the event below.
Imagining a regressive AI feedback loop where AI makes humans dumber (college students incapable of writing an essay, etc.) and then this dumber human-produced content is fed back into AI data systems. In this scenario, humans and machines just keep getting dumber and dumber together, ad infinitum.
February 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Imagining a regressive AI feedback loop where AI makes humans dumber (college students incapable of writing an essay, etc.) and then this dumber human-produced content is fed back into AI data systems. In this scenario, humans and machines just keep getting dumber and dumber together, ad infinitum.
Cryptic street sign in London as endlessly malleable metaphor
February 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Cryptic street sign in London as endlessly malleable metaphor
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🚨 JOBS KLAXON
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 JOBS KLAXON
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
I assume this applies to grants in the humanities, too? NEH? Fulbright? Does anyone know?
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I assume this applies to grants in the humanities, too? NEH? Fulbright? Does anyone know?
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The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?
I love university librarians so much. I sent an email at 5:19 PM to UCLA library with a question about the Center for Near Eastern Studies archives. I got a detailed response from special collections at 5:42 PM ❤️
February 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I love university librarians so much. I sent an email at 5:19 PM to UCLA library with a question about the Center for Near Eastern Studies archives. I got a detailed response from special collections at 5:42 PM ❤️
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It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data
February 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data
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incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit
January 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit