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Craig Perry
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Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
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ladyhistorian.bsky.social Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 10d
In honor of me being mad on the internet, and also needing to feel like other people share my values:

Tell me about the class you didn't want to take in college that ended up bending your mind or being otherwise "useful" in your development as a person
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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uguelphhist.bsky.social
We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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caperry.bsky.social
New book alert! an advance-copy of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt just arrived. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery
Front cover of the book showing a scene from an illustrated manuscript of “The Dinner Party” by the eleventh-century author Ibn Butlan. Back cover of the book
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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juliajorati.bsky.social
My 2-volume anthology (Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy) is now available on Oxford Academic! Please ask your universities to purchase access. Vol. 1: academic.oup.com/book/61633; Vol. 2: academic.oup.com/book/61775. It should be available in print very soon as well. #philsky #slavery #earlymodern
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
caperry.bsky.social
Congratulations!
amaliasl.bsky.social Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 12d
🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude.

The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)."

The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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New book alert! an advance-copy of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt just arrived. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026. www.bit.ly/PerrySlavery
Front cover of the book showing a scene from an illustrated manuscript of “The Dinner Party” by the eleventh-century author Ibn Butlan. Back cover of the book
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
breathing steadily, calmly. but there are blurbs now.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
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December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goal—think we could get there today??

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November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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johncraighammond.bsky.social
"The Centrality of Slavery" arrived today.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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caperry.bsky.social
Wonderful experience this week with my students as the Vega String Quartet hosted us in their rehearsal hall and performed music inspired by the history and musical cultures of the Middle East.

Here is a playlist with some of the works they played ... 1/2

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Music for Introduction to the Middle East recital with the Vega Quartet
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November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
caperry.bsky.social
Maps! From my forthcoming book and created by @greenleejw.bsky.social. I highly recommend JW Greenlee and especially appreciated his collaborative and iterative process of design. These maps capture the geography implicated in the slave trade that I study in the book. There is ... 1/3
Map 1. From Iberia to India, ca. 1000–1250. Map created by John Wyatt Greenlee of Surprised Eel Mapping. Map 2. Egypt and Northeast Africa, ca. 1000–1250. Map created by John Wyatt Greenlee of Surprised Eel Mapping.
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
caperry.bsky.social
Wonderful experience this week with my students as the Vega String Quartet hosted us in their rehearsal hall and performed music inspired by the history and musical cultures of the Middle East.

Here is a playlist with some of the works they played ... 1/2

open.spotify.com/playlist/5A2...
Music for Introduction to the Middle East recital with the Vega Quartet
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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For those who will be at MESA this weekend and next week. I am on a panel about slavery in the medieval Middle East on Sunday at 11am. Abstracts in images and alt text below. Please come join us!
"Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East": The study of slavery in the field of early and medieval Islamic history has long lay in the shadows. In recent years, however, its pace has accelerated with the appearance of several key monographs and a series of research articles, notably those that rely on letters and other documents, mainly from second/eighth and third/ninth-century Egypt but also Palestine and Khurasan. This suggests at least an important departure from what appears to have been a long-standing taboo in the field. That same taboo has held up close and detailed study of what was, after all, a significant example in global history of reliance upon slave trading, a slaving economy, and the labor of enslaved and freed persons, particularly in urban settings. Historians of slavery in other fields (eg. medieval Europe and Byzantium) have long acknowledged the significant role of slave trading, for example, in the history of Mediterranean and North-South relations across medieval history. The proposed panel – “Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East” – seeks to advance the study of Middle Eastern and Islamic-era slavery while also underscoring the point that the topic is long overdue for sustained scholarship. It is composed of four papers on disparate sub-topics of the history of slavery. The four papers are joined, firstly, by their exploration of underutilized sources, whether written texts that have been largely neglected by modern scholarship; documentary material that offers immediate, on-the-ground insights into characteristics of slave practice in Middle Eastern society; or physical objects (eg. ceramics, coins) that depict enslaved and freed persons in a variety of settings. The papers are also joined by significant questions of how slavery – be it the slave trade, the treatment of enslaved bodies, or the question of social mobility on the part of enslaved and freed persons – have been addressed to the present day... Abstracts for Matthew Gordon's paper "The Tulunid Household and its Unfree Members" and Craig Perry's paper "Modern Memory and the Violence of Medieval Slavery: a View from Nubia." Abstracts for Kristina Richardson's paper "Identifying the Medieval Swahili Slaving Port Town of Qanbalu" and Lamia Balafrej's paper "On Jawari's Mediation: Enslavement, Gender, and the Image in Medieval Islam."
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
caperry.bsky.social
For those who will be at MESA this weekend and next week. I am on a panel about slavery in the medieval Middle East on Sunday at 11am. Abstracts in images and alt text below. Please come join us!
"Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East": The study of slavery in the field of early and medieval Islamic history has long lay in the shadows. In recent years, however, its pace has accelerated with the appearance of several key monographs and a series of research articles, notably those that rely on letters and other documents, mainly from second/eighth and third/ninth-century Egypt but also Palestine and Khurasan. This suggests at least an important departure from what appears to have been a long-standing taboo in the field. That same taboo has held up close and detailed study of what was, after all, a significant example in global history of reliance upon slave trading, a slaving economy, and the labor of enslaved and freed persons, particularly in urban settings. Historians of slavery in other fields (eg. medieval Europe and Byzantium) have long acknowledged the significant role of slave trading, for example, in the history of Mediterranean and North-South relations across medieval history. The proposed panel – “Perspectives on Slavery in the Medieval Middle East” – seeks to advance the study of Middle Eastern and Islamic-era slavery while also underscoring the point that the topic is long overdue for sustained scholarship. It is composed of four papers on disparate sub-topics of the history of slavery. The four papers are joined, firstly, by their exploration of underutilized sources, whether written texts that have been largely neglected by modern scholarship; documentary material that offers immediate, on-the-ground insights into characteristics of slave practice in Middle Eastern society; or physical objects (eg. ceramics, coins) that depict enslaved and freed persons in a variety of settings. The papers are also joined by significant questions of how slavery – be it the slave trade, the treatment of enslaved bodies, or the question of social mobility on the part of enslaved and freed persons – have been addressed to the present day... Abstracts for Matthew Gordon's paper "The Tulunid Household and its Unfree Members" and Craig Perry's paper "Modern Memory and the Violence of Medieval Slavery: a View from Nubia." Abstracts for Kristina Richardson's paper "Identifying the Medieval Swahili Slaving Port Town of Qanbalu" and Lamia Balafrej's paper "On Jawari's Mediation: Enslavement, Gender, and the Image in Medieval Islam."
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
press.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
caperry.bsky.social
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
press.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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caperry.bsky.social
Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
Forms of (Un)Freedom: Emancipation and Post-Slavery in the Red Sea Region
The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Over the past two decades, scholars have shown that the forced migration of enslaved people played a crucial role...
www.zmo.de
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
caperry.bsky.social
Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
Forms of (Un)Freedom: Emancipation and Post-Slavery in the Red Sea Region
The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Over the past two decades, scholars have shown that the forced migration of enslaved people played a crucial role...
www.zmo.de
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abun­dant gifts as an author, her exhaus­tive research, and ele­gant writ­ing ele­vate her book above its sub­ject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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#NewPublication
#OpenAccess
#ChristianEast
harrassowitz-v.bsky.social Harrassowitz Verlag @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social · Oct 7
👉 NEW AND OPEN ACCESS

The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
Cover of the advertised book.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵)

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September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

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A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
caperry.bsky.social
You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
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September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM