Dr. Amanda J Summers
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
Philly Philly. Go Birds. And also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
Postdoc @ Queen’s
PhD from Temple
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
Postdoc @ Queen’s
PhD from Temple
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
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Following me you get: random thoughts of a junior scholar who is interested in the 16th-17th century Latin America and Caribbean. I write about the Inquisition, prisons, women getting arrested just for living their lives*, and other fun stuff.
*magic, poison, sex....you know...
Following me you get: random thoughts of a junior scholar who is interested in the 16th-17th century Latin America and Caribbean. I write about the Inquisition, prisons, women getting arrested just for living their lives*, and other fun stuff.
*magic, poison, sex....you know...
WHO WATCHES LOVE IS BLIND????
The first couple is meeting and they’re playing the Jet 2 holiday song……… THEY KNOWWWWWW
The first couple is meeting and they’re playing the Jet 2 holiday song……… THEY KNOWWWWWW
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
WHO WATCHES LOVE IS BLIND????
The first couple is meeting and they’re playing the Jet 2 holiday song……… THEY KNOWWWWWW
The first couple is meeting and they’re playing the Jet 2 holiday song……… THEY KNOWWWWWW
I love this for him
Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.
66 years old going 66 mph.
66 years old going 66 mph.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I love this for him
I realized over coffee that I will be working I. Europe after the semester ends until my postdoc has run its course.
God and I need to have a chat. What if we have it on the Camino.
Send me your pilgrimage tips.
God and I need to have a chat. What if we have it on the Camino.
Send me your pilgrimage tips.
February 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I realized over coffee that I will be working I. Europe after the semester ends until my postdoc has run its course.
God and I need to have a chat. What if we have it on the Camino.
Send me your pilgrimage tips.
God and I need to have a chat. What if we have it on the Camino.
Send me your pilgrimage tips.
H-net sent out two courses this summer being held by folks in Spain - intro to the Archive of Simancas and the Archive of the Indies. Simancas remains my favorite place I have worked, such kind archivists in the most beautiful location and a plethora of fascinating documents.
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
H-net sent out two courses this summer being held by folks in Spain - intro to the Archive of Simancas and the Archive of the Indies. Simancas remains my favorite place I have worked, such kind archivists in the most beautiful location and a plethora of fascinating documents.
We are on semester break this week.
After some maintenance work today, am I actually going to get an uninterrupted 6 days to only work on taking my diss to book???
After some maintenance work today, am I actually going to get an uninterrupted 6 days to only work on taking my diss to book???
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
We are on semester break this week.
After some maintenance work today, am I actually going to get an uninterrupted 6 days to only work on taking my diss to book???
After some maintenance work today, am I actually going to get an uninterrupted 6 days to only work on taking my diss to book???
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CFP! Check it out! ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/15/r...
Reinterpreting the Caribbean Age of Revolutions – Slave Revolts, their Non-Slave Participants and Proto-Citizenship CFP
Call for Papers: Two Parts Part One: Graduate Workshop on Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic Slavery and Emancipation We welcome graduate students working on topics related to early modern Caribbe…
ageofrevolutions.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
I’m screaming. The morning news is saying Kurt Cobain didn’t really kill himself, that it was a staged suicide.
Like, every grunge kid in the 90s told you so! Hahaha
Like, every grunge kid in the 90s told you so! Hahaha
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I’m screaming. The morning news is saying Kurt Cobain didn’t really kill himself, that it was a staged suicide.
Like, every grunge kid in the 90s told you so! Hahaha
Like, every grunge kid in the 90s told you so! Hahaha
So…
No one on staff for The Simpsons has ever seen Philly?
Not even a picture?
Just some Instagram level stereotype references?
No one on staff for The Simpsons has ever seen Philly?
Not even a picture?
Just some Instagram level stereotype references?
February 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
So…
No one on staff for The Simpsons has ever seen Philly?
Not even a picture?
Just some Instagram level stereotype references?
No one on staff for The Simpsons has ever seen Philly?
Not even a picture?
Just some Instagram level stereotype references?
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Let’s make a Bad Bunny theory 101 list!
Hier kommt die Leseliste für Bad Bunny Theorie 101.
Ich mach mich da jetzt endlich auch mal dran.
Ich mach mich da jetzt endlich auch mal dran.
Übrigens auch auf deutsch, kann beides sehr empfehlen:
Dussel, Enrique: Kölner Vorlesungen, Thuria + Kant (darin auch seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritischen Theorie)
Cusicanqui, Silvia Riveira: Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Eine Reflexion über Praktiken und Diskurse der Dekolonisierung, Unrast
Dussel, Enrique: Kölner Vorlesungen, Thuria + Kant (darin auch seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritischen Theorie)
Cusicanqui, Silvia Riveira: Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Eine Reflexion über Praktiken und Diskurse der Dekolonisierung, Unrast
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Let’s make a Bad Bunny theory 101 list!
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I'm not sure that enough people know about the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Remarkable Open Access resource
www.saet.ac.uk
www.saet.ac.uk
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
www.saet.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I'm not sure that enough people know about the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Remarkable Open Access resource
www.saet.ac.uk
www.saet.ac.uk
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Reminder that I have a starter pack of cat accounts run by real people who post original content with meaningful ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN
February 14, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Reminder that I have a starter pack of cat accounts run by real people who post original content with meaningful ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN
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Happy Valentine’s Day all! ❤️ What could be more romantic than listening to me dragging Hernán Cortés for filth on #YDTM? I had a great time with Jen Brister & @gregjenner.bsky.social & even got to call William Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC 😂 What a result!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests in 16th-century Mexico to learn about Cortés and Malintzin.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day all! ❤️ What could be more romantic than listening to me dragging Hernán Cortés for filth on #YDTM? I had a great time with Jen Brister & @gregjenner.bsky.social & even got to call William Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC 😂 What a result!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
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in this house we don't celebrate Valentine's Day, we celebrate Captain Cook got Cooked Day
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
in this house we don't celebrate Valentine's Day, we celebrate Captain Cook got Cooked Day
Last Valentine’s Day I watched the Eagles victory parade before spending the evening with my soul’s perfect match.
This year, I do not get to do either of those things.
It is bullshit.
I would like to go back to last year please.
This year, I do not get to do either of those things.
It is bullshit.
I would like to go back to last year please.
February 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Last Valentine’s Day I watched the Eagles victory parade before spending the evening with my soul’s perfect match.
This year, I do not get to do either of those things.
It is bullshit.
I would like to go back to last year please.
This year, I do not get to do either of those things.
It is bullshit.
I would like to go back to last year please.
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"You're going to punch me? yes, you're going to get in trouble for that"
"Okay"
"Okay"
February 13, 2026 at 11:15 PM
"You're going to punch me? yes, you're going to get in trouble for that"
"Okay"
"Okay"
SPLURGING ON ROTISSERIE CHICKENS!
“This ain’t a fuckin party”
“This ain’t a fuckin party”
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
SPLURGING ON ROTISSERIE CHICKENS!
“This ain’t a fuckin party”
“This ain’t a fuckin party”
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Fucking A to every word of this.
🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?
February 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Fucking A to every word of this.
Grading my seminar's un-essay proposals and I am going to cry - they are so creative and talented. I don't know why I have never assigned an un-essay before. I cannot wait to see/hear the finished projects.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Grading my seminar's un-essay proposals and I am going to cry - they are so creative and talented. I don't know why I have never assigned an un-essay before. I cannot wait to see/hear the finished projects.
Let’s do this for the Spanish Empire.
I think we’re in Carlos II territory.
I think we’re in Carlos II territory.
I’ve been carrying on for two years about what stage of Weimar fall/Nazi takeover we’re in. But let’s do something new, shall we? Calling antiquity scholars: what stage of ‘fall of the Roman empire’ are we in?
February 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Let’s do this for the Spanish Empire.
I think we’re in Carlos II territory.
I think we’re in Carlos II territory.
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When you've even got Bucks County and Delco joining an amicus brief to oppose your efforts to erase the history of slavery, you know you've fucked up. whyy.org/articles/phi...
Philly suburbs seek to assist lawsuit over slavery exhibit removal
“Our history is imperfect,” said Delco Council Chair Richard Womack, “but it is ours, and the federal government can’t rewrite it or ignore it the moment they find it inconvenient.”
whyy.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
When you've even got Bucks County and Delco joining an amicus brief to oppose your efforts to erase the history of slavery, you know you've fucked up. whyy.org/articles/phi...
My students have been studying Aztec codices for weeks and learning about the gods and the migration from Aztlan and different ways of history telling. This section culminated in them painting/drawing the codex of their own migrations to our university.
Today’s ethnohistory seminar is all activities on pictographically writing histories with this gem:
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
(They have been doing an incredible job learning Nahua history, religion, and language and I’m so proud)
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM
My students have been studying Aztec codices for weeks and learning about the gods and the migration from Aztlan and different ways of history telling. This section culminated in them painting/drawing the codex of their own migrations to our university.
There's a reason no one in Reno ever put the crew who hang out at Tonic in charge of anything...
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
There's a reason no one in Reno ever put the crew who hang out at Tonic in charge of anything...