Jillean McCommons
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Jillean McCommons
@jilleanmc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof.
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Spring semester, 2026. Year four on the tenure track. Grateful.
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Honored to receive a State History Award from the Historical Society of Michigan for my book Freedom Enterprise!
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Next Thursday February 5 at 6:30, in person AT the SCHOMBURG Center, we're going to have a powerful conversation on the history of political repression and police violence and Black organizing against it. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-b...
Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance
CBFS: Scholars discuss the history and effects of American policing as it relates to Blackness. An in-person event.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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🔊 Upcoming Online Book Discussion

The New Routes in Transnational American Studies series continues with a discussion of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton.

🗓 29 Jan 2026
⏰ 7–9 PM (GMT+1, Tunisia)
🔗 Register: bit.ly/3LaRS0n
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Spring semester, 2026. Year four on the tenure track. Grateful.
January 27, 2026 at 6:13 PM