Jeffrey Ahlman
@jeffahlman.bsky.social
Professor of History and Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies at Smith College. Writes on Ghana, African decolonization, and African transnationalism.
Congratulations @hofrench.bsky.social ! So well deserved!
Yesterday's induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A huge surprise and a big honor. By far, the biggest pleasure this weekend has been in meeting fellows and hearing about their very varied work and worlds.
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Congratulations @hofrench.bsky.social ! So well deserved!
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
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August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
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New History Job Posted Today: Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, Job no: 526190 Work type: Faculty Full Time Location: UMass Amherst Department: History Union: MSP Categories: College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Tenure Track
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March 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
New History Job Posted Today: Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | University of Massachusetts Amherst
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🎓 New article by Jeffrey Ahlman (@jeffahlman.bsky.social) on "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic | The Journal of African American History: Vol 110, No 1
Abstract During the 1920s and early 1930s, W.E.B. Du Bois regularly turned his attention to the question of Liberia and specifically to the fragility of Liberian sovereignty in the imperial world. The...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🎓 New article by Jeffrey Ahlman (@jeffahlman.bsky.social) on "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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My department at Smith College is hiring a one year VAP in Political Theory. Full time (2:3) and benefited position.
Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory.
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854
Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory.
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854
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March 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My department at Smith College is hiring a one year VAP in Political Theory. Full time (2:3) and benefited position.
Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory.
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854
Specialization is open but particularly interested in candidates in either American Political Thought and/or Comparative Political Theory.
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/164854
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This may not be as tragic as the devastation of PEPFAR, which has deprived AIDS patients of medications, but the elimination of the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs is a real loss for our country and the world.
Getting informal reports that as part of the mass layoffs at the Department of Education, the International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office has been "abolished."
IFLE administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays grant and fellowship programs.
A disaster.
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IFLE administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays grant and fellowship programs.
A disaster.
www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...
International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE)
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office administers Title VI (domestic) and Fulbright-Hays (overseas) grant and fellowship programs.
www.ed.gov
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This may not be as tragic as the devastation of PEPFAR, which has deprived AIDS patients of medications, but the elimination of the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs is a real loss for our country and the world.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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March 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
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James Ferguson, a guiding light in the anthropology of southern Africa, has died.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
February 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
James Ferguson, a guiding light in the anthropology of southern Africa, has died.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
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**Today,** from noon-1pm (PST), UW African Studies hosts Bright Gyamfi @gyamfiphd.bsky.social for his virtual lecture “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.”
Registration link is below, hope you can make it!
Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/event...
Registration link is below, hope you can make it!
Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/event...
February 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
**Today,** from noon-1pm (PST), UW African Studies hosts Bright Gyamfi @gyamfiphd.bsky.social for his virtual lecture “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.”
Registration link is below, hope you can make it!
Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/event...
Registration link is below, hope you can make it!
Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/event...
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Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...
February 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...
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Very excited to share this news. My next book, The Second Emancipation, comes out in August, but if you want to buy it now through Barnes and Noble you can get 25% off today only by using PREORDER 25 at checkout. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-second...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide|Hardcover
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —Davi...
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February 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Very excited to share this news. My next book, The Second Emancipation, comes out in August, but if you want to buy it now through Barnes and Noble you can get 25% off today only by using PREORDER 25 at checkout. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-second...
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We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
Details - Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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February 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
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As we kick off the first week of quarter, I am reminded that I my mental model is *absolutely* directory structure and I have no idea how students now live their entire lives in the chaotic laundry basket that is Google Drive. This article explains it so well: www.theverge.com/22684730/stu...
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
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January 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As we kick off the first week of quarter, I am reminded that I my mental model is *absolutely* directory structure and I have no idea how students now live their entire lives in the chaotic laundry basket that is Google Drive. This article explains it so well: www.theverge.com/22684730/stu...
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Well, I'm sad we didn't get the full finish feed on that women's NCAA XC championship race. 😬
November 23, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Well, I'm sad we didn't get the full finish feed on that women's NCAA XC championship race. 😬
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So excited to share that my book is nearly here. You can find it here tinyurl.com/yu6tkmrt for 40% off with the code 6AF24.
August 21, 2024 at 2:53 PM
So excited to share that my book is nearly here. You can find it here tinyurl.com/yu6tkmrt for 40% off with the code 6AF24.
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I heard yesterday the sad news of the death of Richard Rathbone, Professor Emeritus of African History at SOAS, London. He was so kind & intellectually generous, such a humane reader, & a hugely-respected historian of 20th-century #Ghana. I recommend his 1993 book published by Yale Uni Press. 👇
November 12, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I heard yesterday the sad news of the death of Richard Rathbone, Professor Emeritus of African History at SOAS, London. He was so kind & intellectually generous, such a humane reader, & a hugely-respected historian of 20th-century #Ghana. I recommend his 1993 book published by Yale Uni Press. 👇