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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD
@guprofbc.bsky.social
aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
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this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I rarely want to say anything on here. But one thing I do want to share with whomever is listening is that one of the loveliest things about Carter's memorial events is that they show that people of faith--including the Christian one!--exist across the political spectrum #momprof #Carter
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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@newyorker.com Please, I need the cartoon for my personal countdown to January 20. For the sake of verisimilitude, let it be drenched in emotions. Thank you.
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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The more your work is deemed successful, the louder the cries will become, the more they will fall like leaves on that path until it is hard to even see, just as your own thoughts are hard to hear in the clamor. But you must try to remember that purpose, that self, that path anyway. And do the work.
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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No, they will be requests to be on panels, juries, to write things that are not the things you were born to write, go on book tours, support other works of art (and sometimes you should), but no one will haunt you to stay on your own path. Every request is a request to you to detour from it.
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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No one will email you persistently or message or call or text to urge you to do the work that is truest to yourself and deepest within your imagination, the work you set out to do.
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I needed this content right now. #prince #momprof
The kind you find in a second hand store
December 6, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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As Dems reelect a spritely 74-year-old Chuck Schumer as Senate Leader, this is a reminder that U.S. politicians are the oldest of any democracy, despite the U.S. having one of the youngest populations.
December 5, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I'm no Solnit but I hear this. #momprof
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Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well, people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those things, no matter how kind or flattering or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finances as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.
December 6, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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PBS is capturing the history of Muslims in America in a series of short episodes.
Part of that history relates to interracial intimacies - South Asian and Latinx, Black, Creole, etc. and border crossing, law, family, & marriage.
Catch us here with Asma Khalid!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-d...
How South Asian Muslims and Mexican Americans United in the 1920s | American Muslims
YouTube video by PBS
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM
One of my very besties has written a raucous juicy sympathetic funny review of Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough's memoir: have some fun reading it. #momprof #elvis #mj #michaeljackson #itsnowornever #graceland www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jessica Olin · Mr Toad’s Wild Ride: Leaving Graceland
To understand the scope of the tragedy of Lisa Marie Presley, and why she couldn’t find her own identity or get out...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?
November 26, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Thrilled to see @modamhist.bsky.social here on Bluesky!
We're excited to be here! Historians of Modern America should check out our latest issue, which has new research articles and exciting features. Thank you to all of our wonderful authors for their hardwork and historical insight!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 22, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I have lots of new followers but...no engagement. what gives? #boringbsky
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Officially de-activated over at X. Blergh. #momprof
November 14, 2024 at 5:51 PM
so glad to see some new folx here at bluesky. I'll start posting again. maybe. #momprof
November 14, 2024 at 5:48 PM
So NYC seems fine amirite?
September 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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I don’t want to cause a panic, but the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is in Princeton right now
September 25, 2024 at 6:48 PM
oh dear back at work back at complaints. remember when u used to review a manuscript & they'd send a nice paper copy you couldread over coffee? then it's one pdfs. ok fine. but must i really download & open NINE individual word docs of each chp of a mss to review for $200? I just. #papercuts
August 8, 2024 at 3:35 PM
synagogue listserv: women: facts; (old) men: vibes.
#momprof
July 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM
hi academic bsky - anyone have experience with two-book queries and whether you need a full book proposal for both? asking for ... me. #momprof
July 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
kinda like my google search bio: #cactus #talkinghead #momprof #smiling
June 17, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Re-reading my 2nd book before teaching it at Univ of Mainz &...1) I don't remember a bunch of it 2) analysis solid, research great 3)too many adverbs! #momprof #Germany #immigrationhistory
June 11, 2024 at 9:21 AM
My time in Bisbee #Arizona is near anend but you can find me next month at the University of Mainz in Germany as a visiting fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational Studies! One of the events is a screening of #Bisbee17; another is a lecture abt #phelpsdodge so excited! #momprof #wiedersehen
June 19 – Film Screening _Bisbee ’17_ | Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
www.obama-institute.com
June 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM