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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting call for papers for historians of global development and US foreign policy from the Journal für Entwicklungspolitik on "The End of USAID": jep-journal.com/call-for-pap.... More information at the link, deadline for proposals is October 31, 2025.

jep-journal.com

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 8d

This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.

Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation

toynbeeprize.org

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Aug 3

As the ad mentions, while we expect the successful candidate to have excellent English skills, German-language skills are not a requirement for the position. Please share to interested #skystorians and let me know if you have questions!

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Aug 3

My department at the @uniregensburg.bsky.social is hiring for a postdoc in area studies (3 years, with possibility of a 2-year extension). This is a full-time position, open to relevant fields in the humanities & social sciences. Deadline is September 30!
karriere.uni-regensburg.de/jobposting/d...

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PostDoc) (w/m/d)

karriere.uni-regensburg.de

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Jul 19

Interesting fellowship opportunity for postdoctoral researchers at 🇺🇸 institutions (including non-US citizens) to relocate to 🇦🇹 for four years with up to €500K funding: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi... (Applicants need to be nominated by 🇦🇹 hosts, but there are instructions for how to reach out!)

APART-USA

Stipendien & Preise der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

stipendien.oeaw.ac.at

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Jun 21

This online workshop on academic publishing (July 9 at 15:00 GMT) from the Toynbee Prize Foundation and the Journal of Global History, hosted by @emleake.bsky.social @heiditworek.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity for early career #skystorians: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

Call for registration: JGH x TPF Publishing Workshop II | Toynbee Prize Foundation

toynbeeprize.org

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Jun 5

This index ranking "welcoming countries" (countries that accept the largest number of passports with visa on arrival) might be a starting point: www.passportindex.org/byWelcomingR...

Welcoming Countries Rank 2025 | Passport Index 2025

Discover which countries are the most and least welcoming. How many passports does your country accept visa-free? Is that considered very welcoming? Find out here!

www.passportindex.org

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · May 10

@uniregensburg.bsky.social is looking to hire a full professor (W3) of Comparative Politics, focusing on 🇪🇺 politics. Please circulate within your networks – I'm not on the search committee, but am happy to provide information about 🇩🇪 job searches & Regensburg: www.uni-regensburg.de/assets/unive...

www.uni-regensburg.de

Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · May 8

"Germany’s direction is clear: a shift away from the pretense of self-reflection, toward a colder and more militarized vision of the German state and identity." @hahauenstein.bsky.social with an excellent, if sobering, overview of German politics in 2025. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germany-ha...

Germany's New Government Is Scarier Than You Think

Friedrich Merz’s new government marks a shift towards ideological conservatism, with some of its key ministers setting the stage for a more authoritarian direction. Here’s what you need to know.

hannohauenstein.substack.com

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Apr 5

For those not familiar, @wilsoncenter.org's Digital Archive is *the* leading resource on the international history of the Cold War, comprising thousands of documents collected by historians, curated by Wilson Center staff + essential for teachers and students. digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org

Home Page | Wilson Center Digital Archive

digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Researchers from around the world have used the archives for projects, and scholars especially value the center’s records of documents from the Cold War era." DOGE's dismantling of @wilsoncenter.org is a brazen act of vandalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown

About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

www.nytimes.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · Apr 1

Very excited to say something I haven't been able to say in a decade: we are hiring a tenure-track historian at Louisiana Tech. We're casting the net wide, basically any field outside of North America. Happy to answer any questions ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...

Assistant Professor of History

Thank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. POSITION: Assistant Professor of History. The School of History and Social Sciences at Louisiana Tech University invites appli...

ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Mar 28

Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk: "American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out ‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader."  www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Adam Shatz | Submission

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Mar 10

Looking forward to speaking on my current book project this Wednesday, March 12, from 16:15-17:45 at @recetvienna.bsky.social. Thanks to Eva-Maria Muschik for the invitation and the chance to engage in conversations with #skystorians in 🇦🇹! www.recet.at/event-news/e...

Believing Globally: Islamist Internationalism Between the Cold War and Decolonization

How did Shi'a Islamist actors come to hold such grand ambitions for themselves? In this talk, Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan draws on research in new Persian- and Arabic-language materials to show how decolo...

www.recet.at

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 28

An insane decision by the State Department to terminate the Title VIII program, which has allowed American students to study the languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia – all essential for foreign policy, intelligence, the military and not least a better informed citizenry.

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Feb 27

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.

Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington

Title VIII Fellowships

languageworkshop.indiana.edu

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 19

Dt. Hochschulverband: "Die kurz vor Beginn der Erhebung zurückgetretene Bundesministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger wurde von 2.422 Teilnehmenden bewertet. Ihre durchschnittliche Bewertung von 4,82 ist die 'historisch' schlechteste Bewertung für diese Position." www.hochschulverband.de/fileadmin/re...

www.hochschulverband.de

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Looking forward to checking this out from #skystorians @drichterova.bsky.social, on Czechoslovakia's Cold War intelligence relations with terrorist organizations. Looks like an interesting contribution to work on ties between MENA and Eastern Europe! press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watchin...

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Congratulations!

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 12

"Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität können kontroverse Debatten geführt werden?" Erstaunlich zynische Worte, mit denen die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social politischer Einflussnahme nachgibt und die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland gefährdet. www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/nach...

FU sagt Vortrag von UN-Berichterstatterin in Präsenz ab

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Feb 7

JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge

(this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700)
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · Feb 7

🚨I'm thrilled to share that @wadhamoxford, in collaboration with @OxfordHistory Faculty, has established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The Centre will support 12 junior and senior fellows. This year's theme: "Religion and the State." Please consider applying!

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 4

"Er stand dort für eine an Europa interessierte Forschung, die an Epochen erinnert, in denen Ideologien eine herausragende Rolle im Meinungskampf spielten. Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ." Jürgen Kaube in der @faznet.bsky.social zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach

Sein Horizont unterlag keiner nationalen Begrenzung: Zum Tod des Historikers Anson Rabinbach, der die kulturellen und politischen Umstände erforschte, unter denen der Nationalsozialismus aufstieg.

www.faz.net

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Feb 3

I'm saddened to learn about the passing of Anson Rabinbach, who was a wonderful scholar and the most supportive mentor I could have hoped for as an undergraduate student. Colleagues at the University of Wisconsin are collecting memories via the link in @jennifervevans.bsky.social's post.

Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · Feb 3

The great intellectual historian Anson Rabinbach, passed away a few days ago in Rome after a fall. The folks over at the George Mosse Program in Wisconsin have set up an online page to capture memories and reminiscences for friends and family. It is available here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · Jan 31

Grad students and recent PhDs: apply for our 2025 summer research grants! $3-4k. Apps due March 9. More info: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

HPE Project 2024 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project

The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2024 summer research grant.

www.hpeproject.org

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Jan 31

Oops, posted an older link above! Current page here: www.uni-regensburg.de/dimas/englis...

Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan - Universität Regensburg

www.uni-regensburg.de