@detroittoaccra
Africanist by training; historian by trade; teacher, singer, cook by passion - talking up the new book (Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra), History at Virginia Tech, and Gen Ed at the AAC&U
Banner that reads "I'm presenting! CLASS 2026: the AAC&U conference on learning and student success. Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18."
And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!
Yes!!!!
@katedmcc.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give her a follow for all great things on #highered #gened #pedagogy #assessment and much else!
If only we could find a giant magical bag of money…
I have a dream of building an institution with all the people who know how to make the possible real…
Exactly! I’m much less worried about waiting today :)
Who cares as long as you can get out!? There’s giant mountains of snow hanging around the upper Midwest all winter!
Idk - I def never waited if there was ice coming or if it was going to be significant amount of snow. It only gets more labor intensive to shovel if you wait. Some folks just prefer to do it all at once but I have a bad back and two bad shoulders so it’s not happening at all at some point 🤷🏻♀️
Hunker down! :)
Haha people were closing businesses this morning and saying the roads were treacherous but I drove out to a farm to get sourdough from a micro bakery just fine. Also: shovel and salt early and often; do not wait until the ice has formed multiple layers lol
People lost their minds here again this weekend but my Michigan years are serving me in good stead :)
In #AHAPerspectives, director of engagement Hope Shannon writes about the AHA’s new CARE program. "CARE reflects and supports the AHA’s broader vision for a collaborative, welcoming, and well-connected discipline." 🗃️
Many thanks!!
Would you like to know more about the process of publishing in the American Historical Review? Hear from several recent AHR article authors about their experience publishing in the journal and ask questions about the submission and review process. #AHA26.
I used to get ripple chocolate milk on the reg! Super rich chocolate milk is delicious and now I kinda want some!
You’re truly the most generous person I know in that way.
You are also a deeply generous soul! So many people do not dedicate that sort of careful thought to their colleagues’ work.
In #AHAPerspectives, Leigh Gardner analyzes US–Africa economic policy in the 1920s and today, finding many parallels a century apart. 🗃️
The 2025 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods is available now! Includes some very cool articles, reviews & an interview w/the one & only @thetattooedprof.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Reviews Editor @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social.
openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghist...
In the #AHA26 app, browse sessions grouped by topic or theme using our thematic tracks. From local history to African history, legal history to gender history, career development sessions to sessions for undergraduates, there's a track for everyone at the meeting. Download it today! 🗃️
[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...
This is so exciting!
This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.
Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Applications are open for the #AHA26 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. This session, limited to 10 attendees following an application, will focus on the development process for producing historical podcast. Apply at the link by November 15. 🗃️
Ooh I want @thetattooedprof.bsky.social brisket tips!
This is in my research wheelhouse, but I'm not an early career scholar.
Get this money young scholars!!
Congratulations!
Friends! It’s here! The 2026 GSA conference CFP! Propose your panels or papers or workshops or film screenings or other creative forms of presentation and join us in Kumasi.
There’s going to be some special opportunities for Ghana-based doctoral students/candidates and virtual (not hybrid) options!