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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. .. more

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Nov 8
A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...
Annette Yoshiko Reed '91: Rediscovered Stories - Phillips Exeter Academy
Annette Yoshiko Reed ’91 examines cultural and religious forgetting.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4h
Research assistant, working hard over the holidays
Gray tabby cat standing on what had once been very carefully arranged papers but what are soon to be a mess

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 1d
Teacher here:

Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.

We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)

We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.

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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 2d
Rosenblum discussing the book on New Books podcast:
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Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2d
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 2d
"The New School was founded a little over a century ago precisely because you can’t put a price on critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The dismantling of this promise spells disaster not only for the university itself but for the radical democratic aspirations it once represented."
The Dismantling of the New School
The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspir...
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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 4d
Great episode of Byzantium & Friends w/Aaron Butts!

While centering on Aksum, it engages key questions in the study of late antique empires, such as how to historicize the use of religious imagery in imperial self-presentation, & the proxy war model (e.g. Bowersock)
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146. Ezana of Aksum, the first Christian king in Africa, with Aaron Butts
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 4d
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 6d
hey my little "Thecla" entry for @bibleodyssey.bsky.social is up!

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Thecla - Bible Odyssey
According to Christian tradition, Thecla was a noble woman who abandoned her wealth to follow Paul.
www.bibleodyssey.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social · 6d
Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!

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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1
Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 6d
I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 6d
Both/and 🙋🏻‍♀️

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 6d
This may or may not be me today 🫠

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
Evergreen, alas

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 7d
Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Tenured Full Professor job with University of Texas at Austin
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 7d
my contribution to the discourse: you really want to know whether one group or another is being slighted in some process? get a spreadsheet, fill it out with data from the last ten years, and then---crucial---do not squint when you look at the results

look right at em and don't kid yourself

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
In each case too, blaming “diversity” is an abnegation of responsibility—VS telling the truth and supporting; much easier to blame DEI than to say “Job market is brutal now; let’s make time to look over your materials together & see where you can strengthen & strategize to maximize your chances.”

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
What is striking to me was how deeply acculturated it is to assume a man gets a job b/c of he deserves it while assuming a woman gets a job b/c she is a woman—even among those who recognize the problem w/that logic the second they stop and think about it.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
The other case I overheard when my office door was open—an advisor say that to his advisee (for whom he’d written not-so-strong rec); again, making him feel better in the moment. But in both cases, the result was missing an opportunity to give advice to help the man strength his file! +

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
He did this on the phone when I was in the room! When I asked him why, he said to make his friend feel better—but what was striking is that it was so habitual/commonplace that he hadn’t actually stopped to think out the ramifications & effects of saying that!!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
Not for race but for gender, but I’ve seen this happen! In one case, w/someone whom I know well enough to call him on it: he had told a male friend who didn’t get a job that it was b/c they “had to hire a woman,” despite knowing that wasn’t why this man (not very productive) didn’t get shortlisted +

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 7d
STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found. 
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7d
longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.

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I.T. Soon (YEUNG) @isaactsoon.bsky.social · 7d
UBC is looking to recruit internationally based researchers for Canada Research grants. If you‘re a senior scholar working in anything in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, I encourage you to apply. Please do share among your networks: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program
The University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 7d
Re-upping this 🧵 in light of recent discourse…
annetteyreed.bsky.social Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Jan 5
Some thoughts on academic meritocracy--an issue rightly raised for renewed discussion. The narrative of those who wanted Gay removed as Harvard president--largely echoed in coverage NYT &c + even many who defended her--holds that "merit" prevailed prior to recent diversification of the academy +

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 8d
search your camera roll for hell
Title page of bound dissertation from 1981 on “Tours of Hell” by Martha Himmelfarb

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d
‘Real academic citations are messy.’ Long live mess.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 8d
many moons ago I heard Maud Gleason give a talk that interpreted the florid and literary behavior of the Hasmoneans in Josephus as evidence for how elites internalized florid and literary behavior and reproduced it in their lives... does this ring a bell with anyone?