Monica L. Mercado
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
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
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 🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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 🙏🏻
...and since I work in a sepia-toned world, some other cover faves of late that include older objects/images
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
...and since I work in a sepia-toned world, some other cover faves of late that include older objects/images
These are all on my desk right now and I guess they suggest I love a bold color and not too many fonts.
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
These are all on my desk right now and I guess they suggest I love a bold color and not too many fonts.
It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light
May 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light
love a conclave, hate a patriarchy, pink smoke went up on a hill over St Peter’s Square ( 📸 Barry Lenihan / RTÉ )
May 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
love a conclave, hate a patriarchy, pink smoke went up on a hill over St Peter’s Square ( 📸 Barry Lenihan / RTÉ )
taking vogue dot com screenshots like I'm gonna decorate my locker tomorrow
May 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
taking vogue dot com screenshots like I'm gonna decorate my locker tomorrow
screaming crying chocolate mini pava hat
May 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
screaming crying chocolate mini pava hat
SCNY out in Manhattan yesterday, that’s your nuns update.
April 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
SCNY out in Manhattan yesterday, that’s your nuns update.
...big yikes to whoever updated the semi-quincentennial wiki
March 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
...big yikes to whoever updated the semi-quincentennial wiki
Honestly, while we’re half in the dark, I think people overestimate the capacity of small subfield orgs. The Berks also runs a smaller annual meeting cc: @aearls.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Honestly, while we’re half in the dark, I think people overestimate the capacity of small subfield orgs. The Berks also runs a smaller annual meeting cc: @aearls.bsky.social
Everything is terrible but last night we ventured out in the cold to celebrate my promotion to Associate Professor of History with tenure.
February 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Everything is terrible but last night we ventured out in the cold to celebrate my promotion to Associate Professor of History with tenure.
I don't want to be in but I am so in.
February 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I don't want to be in but I am so in.
In case it would be soothing to stare at a pile of books for a moment, I offer you Spring 2025.
January 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In case it would be soothing to stare at a pile of books for a moment, I offer you Spring 2025.
If you see this post something orange
January 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you see this post something orange
lol even the Catholics got this right (but I need a word that is not skeet)
January 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
lol even the Catholics got this right (but I need a word that is not skeet)
A night of Warp Catholicism ends #acha2025 on St. Mark’s Place. See you next year, @achahistory.bsky.social ✨
January 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A night of Warp Catholicism ends #acha2025 on St. Mark’s Place. See you next year, @achahistory.bsky.social ✨
I get to sit in on a panel! @tbmorrone.bsky.social, @margjhamm.bsky.social, Kate Hoeting from Catholics for Choice, and @tassone.bsky.social on reproductive politics in post-Vatican II America #acha2025 #aha2025 🗃️
January 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I get to sit in on a panel! @tbmorrone.bsky.social, @margjhamm.bsky.social, Kate Hoeting from Catholics for Choice, and @tassone.bsky.social on reproductive politics in post-Vatican II America #acha2025 #aha2025 🗃️
As most of you know, bringing #eBaymethod to the #acha2025 social is my greatest joy. Tonight’s door prizes 🎉 #aha2025
January 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
As most of you know, bringing #eBaymethod to the #acha2025 social is my greatest joy. Tonight’s door prizes 🎉 #aha2025
Pretty good night at Old St. Pat’s with @anthonyb1939.bsky.social and waiting for a very special guest… #acha2025 #aha25
January 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Pretty good night at Old St. Pat’s with @anthonyb1939.bsky.social and waiting for a very special guest… #acha2025 #aha25
when I did the train south from Albany on Wednesday it was wildly foggy, like I’d never seen before!
January 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
when I did the train south from Albany on Wednesday it was wildly foggy, like I’d never seen before!
