Erik Braeden Lewis, PhD
@braedenfrev.bsky.social
Instructor, History (Doña Ana Community College). PhD, History (Florida State). French Revolution. Émigrés. Family. Migration. Franco-Spanish Borderlands. Catalan Identity. Social Networks. Madame du Barry. Domestic Servants. Human Trafficking. Asylum.
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We were down a teacher, so my sister has spent the year doing the impossible with an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX ) and we'd be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. +
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Check out my list on Amazon
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February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
We were down a teacher, so my sister has spent the year doing the impossible with an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX ) and we'd be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. +
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
What are your favorite new books about the French Revolution?
What about your favorite new microhistories?
I need to burn through this library budget, and I want to know what everybody is reading!
What about your favorite new microhistories?
I need to burn through this library budget, and I want to know what everybody is reading!
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
What are your favorite new books about the French Revolution?
What about your favorite new microhistories?
I need to burn through this library budget, and I want to know what everybody is reading!
What about your favorite new microhistories?
I need to burn through this library budget, and I want to know what everybody is reading!
Just submitted my Intent to Apply Memo for promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor. Has it really already been that long?!?
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Just submitted my Intent to Apply Memo for promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor. Has it really already been that long?!?
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
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yes to all this
“Pulling the plug on technology in a humanities class can be one of the best things to happen.”
If the Future Is AI, What Happens to the Humanities? | The Tyee
A college instructor responds to a push to integrate the new tech in his workplace.
thetyee.ca
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
yes to all this
A few pics from the walkthrough of our brand new house. So excited to be getting the keys very soon!
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A few pics from the walkthrough of our brand new house. So excited to be getting the keys very soon!
I always get a little sad when students drop my class right off the bat. Like, yes, I understand that it sounds intimidating to read for every class and then discuss it, but most of the points they earn in my classes are for effort and completion. I wish they would stick it out.
#tenuretrack
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January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I always get a little sad when students drop my class right off the bat. Like, yes, I understand that it sounds intimidating to read for every class and then discuss it, but most of the points they earn in my classes are for effort and completion. I wish they would stick it out.
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Whenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian
January 19, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Whenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian
Back in the office a week before contract date because I'm always behind, so maybe this will help??
#tenuretrack
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January 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Back in the office a week before contract date because I'm always behind, so maybe this will help??
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
What do you mean I actually have to write the paper I said I would write in my proposal?
LOL. Always behind.
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LOL. Always behind.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
What do you mean I actually have to write the paper I said I would write in my proposal?
LOL. Always behind.
#tenuretrack
LOL. Always behind.
#tenuretrack
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
December 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Grading my end of semester reflection assignment (my favorite of the year). It asks: what is the most important thing you learned in this class and how did it impact your educational trajectory?
Y'all...the candor they have.
Y'all...the candor they have.
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Grading my end of semester reflection assignment (my favorite of the year). It asks: what is the most important thing you learned in this class and how did it impact your educational trajectory?
Y'all...the candor they have.
Y'all...the candor they have.
That end of the semester grading fury that I do to myself every semester...
I never learn.
#tenuretrack
I never learn.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
That end of the semester grading fury that I do to myself every semester...
I never learn.
#tenuretrack
I never learn.
#tenuretrack
So confused. Why do we keep outsourcing our humanity to AI? We're just giving up all the fun parts of life, including our jobs...and for what?
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So confused. Why do we keep outsourcing our humanity to AI? We're just giving up all the fun parts of life, including our jobs...and for what?
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Need a new friend on Pokemon Go?
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Need a new friend on Pokemon Go?
I just submitted a proposal to be an AI Faculty Fellow for the Spring 2026 semester. Stepping way out of my comfort zone.
#tenuretrack
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November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I just submitted a proposal to be an AI Faculty Fellow for the Spring 2026 semester. Stepping way out of my comfort zone.
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
I'm on the Budget Committee this year at my college. Just finished the meeting of budget requests...tough decisions ahead. Also, I probably have more questions now than answers about how college budgets work. Interesting stuff, y'all.
#tenuretrack
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November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm on the Budget Committee this year at my college. Just finished the meeting of budget requests...tough decisions ahead. Also, I probably have more questions now than answers about how college budgets work. Interesting stuff, y'all.
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
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I do think students should learn to use AI to help them succeed in our hellish society. Just not in my humanities classroom, in which we learn about art humans created and in which we seek to improve and sharpen intellectual faculties unique to humans.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I do think students should learn to use AI to help them succeed in our hellish society. Just not in my humanities classroom, in which we learn about art humans created and in which we seek to improve and sharpen intellectual faculties unique to humans.
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Nerd life is L I F E
Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Nerd life is L I F E
Frankly, the biggest drawback to teaching at a community college (all lower-level survey courses) is that I don't get to spend enough time talking about the French Revolution.
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#frenchrevolution
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Frankly, the biggest drawback to teaching at a community college (all lower-level survey courses) is that I don't get to spend enough time talking about the French Revolution.
#tenuretrack
#frenchrevolution
#tenuretrack
#frenchrevolution
Anybody else have more and more students just...refuse to turn in any work, despite announcements and emails and interventions with case managers and the whole nine yards?
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anybody else have more and more students just...refuse to turn in any work, despite announcements and emails and interventions with case managers and the whole nine yards?
#tenuretrack
#tenuretrack
This is terrible. Some of the best and brightest professors, and especially one who co-chaired my research for my PhD (while at a Florida public university), are "foreign employees." I wouldn't be where I am today without their instruction and guidance.
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is terrible. Some of the best and brightest professors, and especially one who co-chaired my research for my PhD (while at a Florida public university), are "foreign employees." I wouldn't be where I am today without their instruction and guidance.
I'm just caught up enough on work that I'm starting to worry that I have missed something.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm just caught up enough on work that I'm starting to worry that I have missed something.
#tenuretrack
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