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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영

@parhee.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · Apr 13

May I recommend my book if you want fires, oil spills, eugenics, earthquakes, mudslides, unfriendly neighbors, the mores of the wealthy, beautiful beaches and mountains, and a reference to HBO’s Succession AND the Duchess of Sussex in one tidy package on sale? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 4h

I probably should be ashamed for having a billionaire governor, but am not, mostly.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 7h

In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility:
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...

#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 13h

For the first Anthropocene Histories seminar of 2025-2026, we're talking about 'Cities' with Adrián Lerner (@adrianler.bsky.social) and Pollyanna Rhee (@parhee.bsky.social).

It'll be online on 29th October between 3-5pm GMT.

Open to all, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropoce...

Anthropocenes Histories: Cities

This seminar will discuss the topic of 'Cities and the Anthropocene' through research on Latin America and the U.S.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 4d

I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...

Values of Waste

This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 5d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately only found in the finest supermarkets of Champaign, Illinois.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 4d

“Mr. Rowan, who is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone — are helping shape seismic discussions related to the Trump administration’s campaign to upend American campuses.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 5d

I have reached peak adult.

A package of Selena Gomez Oreos and a box of specialty pasta on the grocery store conveyor

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 9d

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 7d

"In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Schumer and Jeffries are among the weakest the party has yet produced. That both remain in their positions at all is itself a searing indictment of America’s would-be progressive alternative."
www.lukewsavage.com/p/if-this-is...

If this is opposition, what would surrender look like?

In a long line of inept, morally-compromised Democratic leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are peerless

www.lukewsavage.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 7d

A sad day not only for Harvard, but all academia, if true-- especially since Trump's actions are illegal and American universities keep winning in court.

Trump says $500 million settlement with Harvard reached.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute

US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement

www.theguardian.com

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 8d

When the overhead projector would come out …

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 9d

Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go

The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 9d

At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 11d

I have fond memories of a class that was exactly that in undergrad.

Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 12d

One I teach to undergrads is Dell Upton's "White and Black Landscapes in 18th Century Virginia" from Places, but personally I think chapters of books like Hanchett's Sorting Out the New South City or Hurley's Environmental Inequalities are great for this.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee” on JSTOR

Karl Jacoby, Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee”, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 333-362

www.jstor.org

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 13d

People who walk three (or more) in breadth together on an urban sidewalk and feel aggrieved that other people also need to be there.

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 13d

That sounds absolutely amazing!

Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 13d

The great Catherine Hall at Illinois last night on private property and empire.

An older woman at a podium speaking with a slide of an engraving of Cahir Castle in Ireland from 1599 projected behind.

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