Adam Shear
@adamshear.bsky.social
early modern Jewish history and history of the book at University of Pittsburgh (speaks for himself of course); chair of https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/; co-director of https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/
I think so-- pretty early in the admissions/recruitment timeframe as far as I know.
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I think so-- pretty early in the admissions/recruitment timeframe as far as I know.
Intensive Hebrew this summer in Pittsburgh. 1 year in 6 weeks. Lots of scholarship aid. www.sli.pitt.edu #JewishStudies
February 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Intensive Hebrew this summer in Pittsburgh. 1 year in 6 weeks. Lots of scholarship aid. www.sli.pitt.edu #JewishStudies
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Join us Thursday Feb. 19 at 3pm for Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness where panelists will dive into the opportunities, challenges, and debates surrounding these shifts and what it means for the future of Religious Studies.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Join us Thursday Feb. 19 at 3pm for Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness where panelists will dive into the opportunities, challenges, and debates surrounding these shifts and what it means for the future of Religious Studies.
Learn more & register: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
Learn more & register: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
#ReligiousStudies #Pitt Spread the word to undergrads interested in the intersections of religion, cultural diversity, and healthcare:
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
#ReligiousStudies #Pitt Spread the word to undergrads interested in the intersections of religion, cultural diversity, and healthcare:
It warms my heart to know that I teach and do research at the 79th best "arts and humanities" university in the world, especially when #1 in the category is... MIT?
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
It warms my heart to know that I teach and do research at the 79th best "arts and humanities" university in the world, especially when #1 in the category is... MIT?
I find it astonishing that someone who has been teaching for a long time at a notoriously administratively dysfunctional university could extrapolate from a few anecdotes of bad behavior there to the rest of higher education.
February 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I find it astonishing that someone who has been teaching for a long time at a notoriously administratively dysfunctional university could extrapolate from a few anecdotes of bad behavior there to the rest of higher education.
Divination in the ancient world. Talking to god(s)? Could be useful knowledge. Definitely a great series of scholars doing interesting research in the history of religion. At University of Pittsburgh this spring term.
January 21, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Divination in the ancient world. Talking to god(s)? Could be useful knowledge. Definitely a great series of scholars doing interesting research in the history of religion. At University of Pittsburgh this spring term.
The world needs the wisdom of early modernists --My Pitt colleague Todd Reeser: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The world needs the wisdom of early modernists --My Pitt colleague Todd Reeser: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Seymour de Ricci describing Solomon Reinach: "...always impartial, [but] never neutral. He believed that his duty as a scholar obliged him to speak out at all times in favor of the truth and against error."
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Seymour de Ricci describing Solomon Reinach: "...always impartial, [but] never neutral. He believed that his duty as a scholar obliged him to speak out at all times in favor of the truth and against error."
Some new #Jewishstudies jobs and post-docs for AY 25 posted to my spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Some gaps on who filled jobs starting this year (AY 26) so please make yourself known if you are in one of those.
Appearance here is not an endorsement.
Some gaps on who filled jobs starting this year (AY 26) so please make yourself known if you are in one of those.
Appearance here is not an endorsement.
Jewish Studies Jobs
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January 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Some new #Jewishstudies jobs and post-docs for AY 25 posted to my spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Some gaps on who filled jobs starting this year (AY 26) so please make yourself known if you are in one of those.
Appearance here is not an endorsement.
Some gaps on who filled jobs starting this year (AY 26) so please make yourself known if you are in one of those.
Appearance here is not an endorsement.
But IU will probably win a national football championship and that's what really matters. :)
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
January 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM
But IU will probably win a national football championship and that's what really matters. :)
Sometimes historians write for the general public and sometimes for specialists. Book reviews of history trade books do not need to praise the writing style by contrasting with "usual academic writing" or similar phrases. This is pointless. Happens often but right now looking at you @lrb.co.uk.
January 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Sometimes historians write for the general public and sometimes for specialists. Book reviews of history trade books do not need to praise the writing style by contrasting with "usual academic writing" or similar phrases. This is pointless. Happens often but right now looking at you @lrb.co.uk.
I thought my entire department was ignoring me on scheduling something but it looking now like the emails I sent out on a listserv never went through. One anxiety relieved; another emerges.
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I thought my entire department was ignoring me on scheduling something but it looking now like the emails I sent out on a listserv never went through. One anxiety relieved; another emerges.
Others have thought of this, I'm sure, but if time machines get invented, the study abroad/spring break course add-on opportunities are going to be amazing! (Yes, I am familiar with the novels of Connie Willis.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Others have thought of this, I'm sure, but if time machines get invented, the study abroad/spring break course add-on opportunities are going to be amazing! (Yes, I am familiar with the novels of Connie Willis.)
Help me understand this article: is OSU eliminating an "integrated math" & an "English" major or "integrated math and English" major? I don't understand what this would be, but I can't believe a major research university is eliminating its English major! www.thelantern.com/2025/11/ohio...
Ohio State to cut eight majors and merge others in Senate Bill 1 compliance
Ohio State is cutting eight majors and has proposed combining 20 others to comply with Senate Bill 1. Integrated mathematics and English, medieval and renaissance studies, music theory and musicology...
www.thelantern.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Help me understand this article: is OSU eliminating an "integrated math" & an "English" major or "integrated math and English" major? I don't understand what this would be, but I can't believe a major research university is eliminating its English major! www.thelantern.com/2025/11/ohio...
Do English readers ignore instructions or do French readers ignore English signs? Mysteries of Paris. (in the locker area of the BnF Mitterrand.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Do English readers ignore instructions or do French readers ignore English signs? Mysteries of Paris. (in the locker area of the BnF Mitterrand.)
not that many people born before WW1 who could have had a facebook page.
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
not that many people born before WW1 who could have had a facebook page.
I run across Seymour de Ricci (1881-1942) every so often & dip my toes into the rabbithole--one day I will fall in: bibliographer, Orientalist, a Montefiore, first wife a Dreyfus. Last biographical treatment = 8 pages in 1942? Daughter died in 2008. #bookhistory #Jewishstudies.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I run across Seymour de Ricci (1881-1942) every so often & dip my toes into the rabbithole--one day I will fall in: bibliographer, Orientalist, a Montefiore, first wife a Dreyfus. Last biographical treatment = 8 pages in 1942? Daughter died in 2008. #bookhistory #Jewishstudies.
Upcoming lectures in eligion and Healthcare Lecture Series at Pitt-- #JewishStudies #ReligiousStudies. bioethics.pitt.edu/health-human...
Next: Nov 11, 8 – 9 am EST, Online
“In all your ways, know Him" (Proverbs 3:6) Meets "And you shall live by them" (Leviticus 18:5), Rabbanit Miriam Fenster
Next: Nov 11, 8 – 9 am EST, Online
“In all your ways, know Him" (Proverbs 3:6) Meets "And you shall live by them" (Leviticus 18:5), Rabbanit Miriam Fenster
Future Lectures | Institute for Bioethics | University of Pittsburgh
November 11, 2025 8:00 – 9:00 am Online
bioethics.pitt.edu
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Upcoming lectures in eligion and Healthcare Lecture Series at Pitt-- #JewishStudies #ReligiousStudies. bioethics.pitt.edu/health-human...
Next: Nov 11, 8 – 9 am EST, Online
“In all your ways, know Him" (Proverbs 3:6) Meets "And you shall live by them" (Leviticus 18:5), Rabbanit Miriam Fenster
Next: Nov 11, 8 – 9 am EST, Online
“In all your ways, know Him" (Proverbs 3:6) Meets "And you shall live by them" (Leviticus 18:5), Rabbanit Miriam Fenster
Senior art historians who work on "pre-modernity" as defined in your geographic area, take a look at this: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio.... Folks in related #earlymodern and other pre-modern areas share this widely.
William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
cfopitt.taleo.net
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Senior art historians who work on "pre-modernity" as defined in your geographic area, take a look at this: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio.... Folks in related #earlymodern and other pre-modern areas share this widely.
Does your university sponsor a mock ancient olympics as part of the study of classics and religious studies? www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/news/religio...
#religiousstudies #classics #ancientworld
#religiousstudies #classics #ancientworld
Religious Studies Students Compete in Catheopolis Games | Department of Religious Studies
www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Does your university sponsor a mock ancient olympics as part of the study of classics and religious studies? www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/news/religio...
#religiousstudies #classics #ancientworld
#religiousstudies #classics #ancientworld
I thought I knew a lot about Reuchlin but it's great to discover avenues I hadn't even considered--looking forward to reading this new book. #earlymodern #Jewishstudies #ChristianHebraism reforc.com/news/music-r...
Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe - REFORC
This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the “first German humanist” Johannes Reuchlin...
reforc.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I thought I knew a lot about Reuchlin but it's great to discover avenues I hadn't even considered--looking forward to reading this new book. #earlymodern #Jewishstudies #ChristianHebraism reforc.com/news/music-r...
Settlement between Ohio attorney general and HUC on the rare book collection. www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-R...
Yost Strikes Deal With Hebrew Union College to Protect Rare-Book Collection in Cincinnati - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost
www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Settlement between Ohio attorney general and HUC on the rare book collection. www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-R...
My colleague Adam Lowenstein is such a great explainer of why horror films (and lit) are worth serious academic study. He even got me to watch a horror film once. www.as.pitt.edu/horror-studi...
The Horror Studies Center at Pitt | Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences | University of Pittsburgh
About the Center The world’s first academic center dedicated to horror studies. The Horror Studies Center (HSC) positions the University of Pittsburgh as a global leader in interdisciplinary research,...
www.as.pitt.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My colleague Adam Lowenstein is such a great explainer of why horror films (and lit) are worth serious academic study. He even got me to watch a horror film once. www.as.pitt.edu/horror-studi...
With the decline of the humanities in American academia and the hard-sell to students to study anything that happened before 1800, I find it both annoying and gratifying that my university and the art museum next door feature 3 lectures on classical and early modern topics at the same time today!
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
With the decline of the humanities in American academia and the hard-sell to students to study anything that happened before 1800, I find it both annoying and gratifying that my university and the art museum next door feature 3 lectures on classical and early modern topics at the same time today!