Joseph Stuart
@jstuart.bsky.social
History Professor | Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the Black Freedom Struggle
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Because, in my opinion, the greatest dilemma public colleges across the country face is that they NEVER receive enough state or federal funding. So they are forced to submit grant applications to the country’s philanthropic organizations to fit an ever-growing gap. THIS IS THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Because, in my opinion, the greatest dilemma public colleges across the country face is that they NEVER receive enough state or federal funding. So they are forced to submit grant applications to the country’s philanthropic organizations to fit an ever-growing gap. THIS IS THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.
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🗃️ 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?
What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?
Its role as the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research has granted the foundation—and its president—enormous influence over American arts and letters.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
🗃️ 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.
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Just in case you missed this amazing conversation I had with Kellie Carter Jackson about the intersection of family history and our historical work!
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
Episode 003: Writing About Your Own Family’s History with Blair L.M. Kelley and Kellie Carter Jackson
In the red clay fields of Georgia, a man named Solicitor rose before dawn to tend the land he did not own. He was a sharecropper, a laborer, and a father. His name was passed down along with stories o...
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io
February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Just in case you missed this amazing conversation I had with Kellie Carter Jackson about the intersection of family history and our historical work!
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
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My amazing friend @jstuart.bsky.social runs this podcast called Reunion! And holycow they’re interviewing some of my fave scholars!
Can’t wait for this episode!!
Can’t wait for this episode!!
Just in case you missed this amazing conversation I had with Kellie Carter Jackson about the intersection of family history and our historical work!
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
Episode 003: Writing About Your Own Family’s History with Blair L.M. Kelley and Kellie Carter Jackson
In the red clay fields of Georgia, a man named Solicitor rose before dawn to tend the land he did not own. He was a sharecropper, a laborer, and a father. His name was passed down along with stories o...
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
My amazing friend @jstuart.bsky.social runs this podcast called Reunion! And holycow they’re interviewing some of my fave scholars!
Can’t wait for this episode!!
Can’t wait for this episode!!
Age verification? I only ford the river when it's less than 2.5 feet deep and can only carry 200 lbs. of meat back to camp.
Age verification? I called a number I memorized to learn what the weather forecast was for the day.
Age verification? My mom dressed me in Garanimals.
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Age verification? I only ford the river when it's less than 2.5 feet deep and can only carry 200 lbs. of meat back to camp.
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Meet the host and panelists for the upcoming Religion & episode! Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness will air live on Thursday Feb. 19th from 3-4PM on Zoom!
Learn more about the panelists, their work, and register for the episode: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
Learn more about the panelists, their work, and register for the episode: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
February 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Meet the host and panelists for the upcoming Religion & episode! Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness will air live on Thursday Feb. 19th from 3-4PM on Zoom!
Learn more about the panelists, their work, and register for the episode: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
Learn more about the panelists, their work, and register for the episode: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
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Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.
I just submitted a peer‑review report for an article I truly hope will make it into print! The piece showcases remarkable historical detective work and is written with real beauty.
Thoughtful peer review takes time, and the time invested benefits everyone involved.
Thoughtful peer review takes time, and the time invested benefits everyone involved.
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I just submitted a peer‑review report for an article I truly hope will make it into print! The piece showcases remarkable historical detective work and is written with real beauty.
Thoughtful peer review takes time, and the time invested benefits everyone involved.
Thoughtful peer review takes time, and the time invested benefits everyone involved.
Nina Simone + writing a public talk on Baldwin's THE FIRE NEXT TIME is a great way to wake up the brain. And remind you of your many weaknesses as a public communicator 😅
February 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Nina Simone + writing a public talk on Baldwin's THE FIRE NEXT TIME is a great way to wake up the brain. And remind you of your many weaknesses as a public communicator 😅
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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
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A new 8-story tour on the Donner Party, researched and written by one of my Intermountain Histories project interns, Samuel Watson, is now available on the project website and mobile apps!
www.intermountainhistories.org/tours/show/81
www.intermountainhistories.org/tours/show/81
Tour | The Donner Party | Intermountain Histories
Perhaps the most infamous group of pioneers in American history, The Donner Party’s journey in 1846-47 has been firmly planted in Intermountain lore. Of all the emigrants who traveled the overland tra...
www.intermountainhistories.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
A new 8-story tour on the Donner Party, researched and written by one of my Intermountain Histories project interns, Samuel Watson, is now available on the project website and mobile apps!
www.intermountainhistories.org/tours/show/81
www.intermountainhistories.org/tours/show/81
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Ayeeeeee! Happy Black History Month!
Want to start #BlackHistoryMonth off on a good note? Come listen to @kcarterjackson.bsky.social + @profblmkelley.bsky.social talk about researching their own family histories.
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Ayeeeeee! Happy Black History Month!
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Want to start #BlackHistoryMonth off on a good note? Come listen to @kcarterjackson.bsky.social + @profblmkelley.bsky.social talk about researching their own family histories.
February 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Want to start #BlackHistoryMonth off on a good note? Come listen to @kcarterjackson.bsky.social + @profblmkelley.bsky.social talk about researching their own family histories.
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For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything
And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.
www.theringer.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:33 AM
For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
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Annie May Ritchie died young, at age 25, just over a year after her marriage. She was the daughter of a formerly enslaved father and a white mother. Her parents were denied temple admission in 1909 because the family’s bishop
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Annie May Ritchie died young, at age 25, just over a year after her marriage. She was the daughter of a formerly enslaved father and a white mother. Her parents were denied temple admission in 1909 because the family’s bishop
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I just went to subscribe to the new Frakes/Spiner podcast only to find out it’s only available on YouTube. If I cannot experience it fully while washing dishes, it’s not a podcast.
Video podcasts are talk shows. Just admit it!
January 31, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I just went to subscribe to the new Frakes/Spiner podcast only to find out it’s only available on YouTube. If I cannot experience it fully while washing dishes, it’s not a podcast.
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Any historians of Christianity who'd like to do a panel for ASCH on archives and, perhaps, rightwing Christians and/or unsavory individuals? I want to talk about a very obscure person and whether I should just leave him dead. Are some ppl not worth "recovering?" Why or why not, how to decide, etc.
January 31, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Any historians of Christianity who'd like to do a panel for ASCH on archives and, perhaps, rightwing Christians and/or unsavory individuals? I want to talk about a very obscure person and whether I should just leave him dead. Are some ppl not worth "recovering?" Why or why not, how to decide, etc.
Family history work depends on the material lives of records: how they were created, used, marked, preserved, or repaired.
Come hang with me and @ccjones.bsky.social and Amy Harris and chat about archives, archival practice, and genealogy!!
juvenileinstructor.org/call-for-par...
Come hang with me and @ccjones.bsky.social and Amy Harris and chat about archives, archival practice, and genealogy!!
juvenileinstructor.org/call-for-par...
» Call for Participants–CHL Book History Workshop
A Mormon history blog
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January 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Family history work depends on the material lives of records: how they were created, used, marked, preserved, or repaired.
Come hang with me and @ccjones.bsky.social and Amy Harris and chat about archives, archival practice, and genealogy!!
juvenileinstructor.org/call-for-par...
Come hang with me and @ccjones.bsky.social and Amy Harris and chat about archives, archival practice, and genealogy!!
juvenileinstructor.org/call-for-par...
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Send me a message if you're a regular listener of my Writing Westward Podcast and would be up for answering a few questions from a student journalist who is writing a story.
The BYU student newspaper, The Daily Universe, is going to run an article on the Writing Westward Podcast and is interested in asking questions of a few listeners. Please message if you'd be interested.
January 27, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Send me a message if you're a regular listener of my Writing Westward Podcast and would be up for answering a few questions from a student journalist who is writing a story.
The CFP for Afro-American Religious History at #AAR2026 is up! Please share and SUBMIT!
papers.aarweb.org/group/15476
papers.aarweb.org/group/15476
Afro-American Religious History Unit | AAR Annual Meeting
papers.aarweb.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The CFP for Afro-American Religious History at #AAR2026 is up! Please share and SUBMIT!
papers.aarweb.org/group/15476
papers.aarweb.org/group/15476
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The instructors for the Black Buddhism workshop below include @xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Rima Vesely-Flad who contributed a project, "Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices" to our SPIRIT HOUSE site.
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The instructors for the Black Buddhism workshop below include @xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Rima Vesely-Flad who contributed a project, "Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices" to our SPIRIT HOUSE site.
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Trish Patel pitches me an article approximately yearly, and every time it's completely different and totally fascinating.
This time, she has written in #AHAPerspectives about the history of Indian migration to Africa in the context of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's and her own family histories. 🗃️
This time, she has written in #AHAPerspectives about the history of Indian migration to Africa in the context of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's and her own family histories. 🗃️
“Mixed Masala” – AHA
A historian of the Indian Ocean world contexualizes Zohran Mamdani’s family history and complicated identity.
www.historians.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Trish Patel pitches me an article approximately yearly, and every time it's completely different and totally fascinating.
This time, she has written in #AHAPerspectives about the history of Indian migration to Africa in the context of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's and her own family histories. 🗃️
This time, she has written in #AHAPerspectives about the history of Indian migration to Africa in the context of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's and her own family histories. 🗃️
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Had a great time!
Reunion: a Podcast About Family Histories is a creation of my BYU History faculty colleagues @ccjones.bsky.social & @jstuart.bsky.social. Talk about hitting the ground running! The 1st 2 episodes have featured @kawulf.bsky.social & @agordonreed.bsky.social! WOW!
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January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Had a great time!