Chris Cantwell
@cdc29.bsky.social
Religious History | Public History | Digital History
Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
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Chris Cantwell
@cdc29.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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I'm a US religious historian & former museum professional whose lives in the overlap of those spaces
I write about religion & memory. I teach about public history & digital humanities. I do community engaged scholarship w/ religious congregations in transition
I'm a US religious historian & former museum professional whose lives in the overlap of those spaces
I write about religion & memory. I teach about public history & digital humanities. I do community engaged scholarship w/ religious congregations in transition
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Truly brilliant @rns.org team reporting here from @ulaakuzi.bsky.social, @fiona-ndre.bsky.social and @richakarma.bsky.social:
Inside Zohran Mamdani's bid to win over religious New Yorkers —> religionnews.com/2025/11/04/i...
Inside Zohran Mamdani's bid to win over religious New Yorkers —> religionnews.com/2025/11/04/i...
Inside Zohran Mamdani's bid to win over religious New Yorkers
NEW YORK (RNS) — Over the past year, the candidate has leaned on his Muslim identity to mobilize voters from across traditions, from Friday prayers and Diwali celebrations in Queens, to Baptist church...
religionnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Truly brilliant @rns.org team reporting here from @ulaakuzi.bsky.social, @fiona-ndre.bsky.social and @richakarma.bsky.social:
Inside Zohran Mamdani's bid to win over religious New Yorkers —> religionnews.com/2025/11/04/i...
Inside Zohran Mamdani's bid to win over religious New Yorkers —> religionnews.com/2025/11/04/i...
🗃️ Hoping for some help with a page proof question. We public historians are ok with using "historymaking" as something of a portmanteau, yes? The typesetter insisted on separating this into "history making," but I feel I've read it combine in other books on memory and #publichistory. Thoughts?
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🗃️ Hoping for some help with a page proof question. We public historians are ok with using "historymaking" as something of a portmanteau, yes? The typesetter insisted on separating this into "history making," but I feel I've read it combine in other books on memory and #publichistory. Thoughts?
What a line. Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac” (1949)
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What a line. Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac” (1949)
“To plant a pine…one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree—and there will be one.”
- Aldo Leopold, “Sand County Almanac” (1949)
- Aldo Leopold, “Sand County Almanac” (1949)
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“To plant a pine…one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree—and there will be one.”
- Aldo Leopold, “Sand County Almanac” (1949)
- Aldo Leopold, “Sand County Almanac” (1949)
In the (e)mail today.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In the (e)mail today.
“It is fortunate, perhaps, that no matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all of the salient facts about any one of them.”
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac (1949)
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac (1949)
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It is fortunate, perhaps, that no matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all of the salient facts about any one of them.”
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac (1949)
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac (1949)
Paging @mjcressler.bsky.social …
I wonder if we could come up with a theological term for these MAGA Catholics who reject the pope’s authority and know Jesus loves capitalism because he told them so directly? Like, “protest Catholics?” “Protesterants”? There’s gotta be something…
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Paging @mjcressler.bsky.social …
“If loons invented the music of being alone, cranes invented the music of being together.”
- Kim Heacox
- Kim Heacox
September 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“If loons invented the music of being alone, cranes invented the music of being together.”
- Kim Heacox
- Kim Heacox
A somewhat thinking out loud thread on teaching #DH in the age of AI.
Every fall, I've taught an intro to #digitalhumanities class in a #history 🗃️ department for more than ten years. Change, of course, inevitable. But there's been a big vibe shift this year. /1
Every fall, I've taught an intro to #digitalhumanities class in a #history 🗃️ department for more than ten years. Change, of course, inevitable. But there's been a big vibe shift this year. /1
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A somewhat thinking out loud thread on teaching #DH in the age of AI.
Every fall, I've taught an intro to #digitalhumanities class in a #history 🗃️ department for more than ten years. Change, of course, inevitable. But there's been a big vibe shift this year. /1
Every fall, I've taught an intro to #digitalhumanities class in a #history 🗃️ department for more than ten years. Change, of course, inevitable. But there's been a big vibe shift this year. /1
@loyolahistdept.bsky.social will be hosting the first ever @shgape.bsky.social conference this summer, and the CFP is now live. Please share widely and consider submitting something yourself!
blog.shgape.org/cfp-shgape-c...
blog.shgape.org/cfp-shgape-c...
CFP: SHGAPE Conference - SHGAPE Blog
The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. We welcome anyone int...
blog.shgape.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@loyolahistdept.bsky.social will be hosting the first ever @shgape.bsky.social conference this summer, and the CFP is now live. Please share widely and consider submitting something yourself!
blog.shgape.org/cfp-shgape-c...
blog.shgape.org/cfp-shgape-c...
The candy dish next to the copier in my department is out of chocolate and it is a legitimate crisis for me.
September 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The candy dish next to the copier in my department is out of chocolate and it is a legitimate crisis for me.
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social is one of the most innovative thinkers in the public understanding of religion. His new venture, "The Religion Department," is vital in a time when universities & state legislatures are shuttering such departments. I hope this flourishes.
www.religiondepartment.com
www.religiondepartment.com
The Religion Department
www.religiondepartment.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social is one of the most innovative thinkers in the public understanding of religion. His new venture, "The Religion Department," is vital in a time when universities & state legislatures are shuttering such departments. I hope this flourishes.
www.religiondepartment.com
www.religiondepartment.com
i get the anxiety of AI and the humanities, but I just had my Claude account turn a crappy PDF with multiple columns of text into a RTF file I can read, edit, and fix in five minutes. Why does the discourse on these models just ignore their obvious benefits to humanistic research?
September 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
i get the anxiety of AI and the humanities, but I just had my Claude account turn a crappy PDF with multiple columns of text into a RTF file I can read, edit, and fix in five minutes. Why does the discourse on these models just ignore their obvious benefits to humanistic research?
Has anyone successfully gotten an Outlook calendar to appear in Google calendar? Neither the ICS or HTML links will sync. I don't need to the Outlook calendar in Google. I just need it to appear and sync so my family can see it.
September 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Has anyone successfully gotten an Outlook calendar to appear in Google calendar? Neither the ICS or HTML links will sync. I don't need to the Outlook calendar in Google. I just need it to appear and sync so my family can see it.
What. A. Paragraph. From Daniel Immerwahr’s “How to Hide an Empire.”
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What. A. Paragraph. From Daniel Immerwahr’s “How to Hide an Empire.”
My department has a nice tradition of putting your book cover up outside of your office door. Was touched to see it up when I arrived to start the semester.
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My department has a nice tradition of putting your book cover up outside of your office door. Was touched to see it up when I arrived to start the semester.
An upside of the AI revolution in higher ed is that it has exposed just what a useless scam "Turn It In" always was. No university should maintain their subscription to the service.
August 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
An upside of the AI revolution in higher ed is that it has exposed just what a useless scam "Turn It In" always was. No university should maintain their subscription to the service.
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*whispers* I think the @historians.org "guiding principles for AI in history education" are actually pretty good (and I say this as an historian and a public interest tech professional). 🧵
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
*whispers* I think the @historians.org "guiding principles for AI in history education" are actually pretty good (and I say this as an historian and a public interest tech professional). 🧵
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
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For any BlueSky friends engaged in Digital Humanities projects, here's a place to apply for seed money
www.acls.org/programs/acl...
www.acls.org/programs/acl...
ACLS Digital Justice Grants
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to address the inequities in the access to support for digital work across various fields.
www.acls.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
For any BlueSky friends engaged in Digital Humanities projects, here's a place to apply for seed money
www.acls.org/programs/acl...
www.acls.org/programs/acl...
It is 10am on the first week of August and I’ve already received two assessment-related emails from my university.
August 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It is 10am on the first week of August and I’ve already received two assessment-related emails from my university.
The wildfire smoke circling WI is wreaking absolute havoc on my sinuses.
August 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The wildfire smoke circling WI is wreaking absolute havoc on my sinuses.
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July 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Just introduced my oldest to The Sopranos, and realized for the first time that the premise of the entire show is that Tony becomes a birder at middle age.
July 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Just introduced my oldest to The Sopranos, and realized for the first time that the premise of the entire show is that Tony becomes a birder at middle age.
Can anyone point me to thought pieces and takes on the impact AI is having on online education? Everything I've read has presumed in class interaction. But it seems like the greatest potential for a meaningless, bot-centered learning and teaching feedback loop would be in an online class.
July 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can anyone point me to thought pieces and takes on the impact AI is having on online education? Everything I've read has presumed in class interaction. But it seems like the greatest potential for a meaningless, bot-centered learning and teaching feedback loop would be in an online class.
Just told my children they should be glad I had them before I got into birds, otherwise they'd be named something like Hawk or Titmouse.
July 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just told my children they should be glad I had them before I got into birds, otherwise they'd be named something like Hawk or Titmouse.