Kaete O'Connell
@kaeteoc.bsky.social
Historian of Food & Foreign Relations | Displaced Jersey Girl
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November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today and tomorrow at UT Dallas!
I'll be joining the plenary on teaching presidential history at the @historians.org 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Oct 24-25 at UT Dallas. The conference is free to attend. Read more here: www.historians.org/event/2025-t...
2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses
The 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will take place Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25 at University of Texas at Dallas.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today and tomorrow at UT Dallas!
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Thrilled to have an opportunity to revisit Wheat and Strategic Competition for @warontherocks.bsky.social w/ Justin Gilpin CEO Kansas Wheat Commission.
We talk a lot about Russia and China and their most recent attempts to use wheat as a tool of statecraft.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/how-...
We talk a lot about Russia and China and their most recent attempts to use wheat as a tool of statecraft.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/how-...
How Food Feeds Strategic Competition
In 2022, Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Justin Gilpin wrote, “Breadbasket Diplomacy: Preserving Wheat as a Tool of American Statecraft,” where they argued
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October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thrilled to have an opportunity to revisit Wheat and Strategic Competition for @warontherocks.bsky.social w/ Justin Gilpin CEO Kansas Wheat Commission.
We talk a lot about Russia and China and their most recent attempts to use wheat as a tool of statecraft.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/how-...
We talk a lot about Russia and China and their most recent attempts to use wheat as a tool of statecraft.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/how-...
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This was an excellent episode
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Here’s last night’s story about presidential libraries, how they help shape history, the troubling ways they can be used, and – of course – some tasteful conjecture about one president’s undercarriage. youtu.be/dB1-lg-xZWc
Presidential Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This was an excellent episode
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Historian friends, I’m looking for a chair and/or comment to join a panel at the Business History Conference in London in March. The panel examines alcohol marketing in the U.S. mid-20th century. If you know someone, please reach out!
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Historian friends, I’m looking for a chair and/or comment to join a panel at the Business History Conference in London in March. The panel examines alcohol marketing in the U.S. mid-20th century. If you know someone, please reach out!
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Applications for the fall cycle of our short-term doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due October 1. Learn more about the criteria here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships – GHI Washington
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September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Applications for the fall cycle of our short-term doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are due October 1. Learn more about the criteria here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...
I care deeply about this organization (obvi) but you should too! Participation is currently at 29.89%, can we get to 33%?? #SHAFR
The SHAFR 2025 election is now open! Check your inbox for the ballot.
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I care deeply about this organization (obvi) but you should too! Participation is currently at 29.89%, can we get to 33%?? #SHAFR
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The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...
Passport September 2025
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September 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...
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I was honored to be invited to contribute a piece to the newly published @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Passport Roundtable paying tribute to the Cold War International History Project, formerly at @wilsoncenter.org. CWIHP will thrive elsewhere.
www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I was honored to be invited to contribute a piece to the newly published @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Passport Roundtable paying tribute to the Cold War International History Project, formerly at @wilsoncenter.org. CWIHP will thrive elsewhere.
www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
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DEADLINE UPDATE: The Bernath Lecture Prize will now be announced with SHAFR's June prizes. The deadline for the 2026 award (delivering the lecture at #SHAFR2027) is February 1, 2026.
#SHAFR #skystorians #diplohistory
#SHAFR #skystorians #diplohistory
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
DEADLINE UPDATE: The Bernath Lecture Prize will now be announced with SHAFR's June prizes. The deadline for the 2026 award (delivering the lecture at #SHAFR2027) is February 1, 2026.
#SHAFR #skystorians #diplohistory
#SHAFR #skystorians #diplohistory
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We'd love to have you. Please consider, apply, & come join us @mershoncenter.bsky.social at The Ohio State University as the next new Mershon Chair in Peace Studies, tenured associate or full professor.🗃️ osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
Mershon Peace Chair
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
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September 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We'd love to have you. Please consider, apply, & come join us @mershoncenter.bsky.social at The Ohio State University as the next new Mershon Chair in Peace Studies, tenured associate or full professor.🗃️ osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
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📢 Reminder: Apps due Oct 1!
SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop → Mar 3–4, 2026 @ Singapore Management Univ.
For early/mid-career scholars of U.S. foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Details + CFP: cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...
#SHAFR #skystorians #intlhistory #academicworkshop #PhDLife
SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop → Mar 3–4, 2026 @ Singapore Management Univ.
For early/mid-career scholars of U.S. foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Details + CFP: cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...
#SHAFR #skystorians #intlhistory #academicworkshop #PhDLife
Call for Applications: SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop 2026 | College of Integrative Studies
Call for Applications SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop March 3-4, 2026, Singapore Management University.
cis.smu.edu.sg
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📢 Reminder: Apps due Oct 1!
SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop → Mar 3–4, 2026 @ Singapore Management Univ.
For early/mid-career scholars of U.S. foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Details + CFP: cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...
#SHAFR #skystorians #intlhistory #academicworkshop #PhDLife
SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop → Mar 3–4, 2026 @ Singapore Management Univ.
For early/mid-career scholars of U.S. foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Details + CFP: cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...
#SHAFR #skystorians #intlhistory #academicworkshop #PhDLife
My favorite packages to receive in the mail are those with new books written by friends 🙂
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My favorite packages to receive in the mail are those with new books written by friends 🙂
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CFP: Spring Emerging Scholars Workshop, “New Directions in WWII History.”
@smh-historians.bsky.social
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/jenny-cr...
@smh-historians.bsky.social
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Call for Papers Emerging Scholars Workshop
The National WWII Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is pleased to issue this call for papers for its Spring Emerging Scholars Workshop, “New Directions in WWII History....
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September 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
CFP: Spring Emerging Scholars Workshop, “New Directions in WWII History.”
@smh-historians.bsky.social
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@smh-historians.bsky.social
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🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards
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September 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
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📍This year we launched a new digital archive putting significant collections from our archive at the hands of researchers worldwide
For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...
For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📍This year we launched a new digital archive putting significant collections from our archive at the hands of researchers worldwide
For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...
For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era...
I'll be joining the plenary on teaching presidential history at the @historians.org 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Oct 24-25 at UT Dallas. The conference is free to attend. Read more here: www.historians.org/event/2025-t...
2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses
The 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will take place Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25 at University of Texas at Dallas.
www.historians.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'll be joining the plenary on teaching presidential history at the @historians.org 2025 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses, Oct 24-25 at UT Dallas. The conference is free to attend. Read more here: www.historians.org/event/2025-t...
Great essay by Daniel Chardell on R2P
cc: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
cc: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
When protection becomes a pretext, sovereignty pays the price.
Israel, the Syrian Druze, and the Ghosts of the “Responsibility to Protect” - War on the Rocks
Though relatively limited in their duration and destruction, Israel’s airstrikes on Syria last month were conspicuous for their rationale. This was no act
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August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Great essay by Daniel Chardell on R2P
cc: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
cc: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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Profs with seminar research papers: advice needed. What are you doing to address the impact of AI on student papers? I can't have presentations after papers are turned in, unfortunately. I can grade preliminary assignments like research plans & 1st drafts, though I prefer not to. What are you doing?
August 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Profs with seminar research papers: advice needed. What are you doing to address the impact of AI on student papers? I can't have presentations after papers are turned in, unfortunately. I can grade preliminary assignments like research plans & 1st drafts, though I prefer not to. What are you doing?
My fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History was the BEST. If you or someone you know works on European history, you should apply!! Deadline is Friday 8/15
www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowshi...
#history #fellowships #academic
www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowshi...
#history #fellowships #academic
IEG - Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
Leibniz Institut für europäische Geschichte Mainz
www.ieg-mainz.de
August 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History was the BEST. If you or someone you know works on European history, you should apply!! Deadline is Friday 8/15
www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowshi...
#history #fellowships #academic
www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowshi...
#history #fellowships #academic
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On this day in 1961, the #BerlinWall began construction. We're spotlighting four relevant titles, all currently included in our paperback and ebook sale!
1 bit.ly/4ofe486
2 bit.ly/4m4yH5D
3 bit.ly/45BZobP
4 bit.ly/4fllUZO
#History
1 bit.ly/4ofe486
2 bit.ly/4m4yH5D
3 bit.ly/45BZobP
4 bit.ly/4fllUZO
#History
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On this day in 1961, the #BerlinWall began construction. We're spotlighting four relevant titles, all currently included in our paperback and ebook sale!
1 bit.ly/4ofe486
2 bit.ly/4m4yH5D
3 bit.ly/45BZobP
4 bit.ly/4fllUZO
#History
1 bit.ly/4ofe486
2 bit.ly/4m4yH5D
3 bit.ly/45BZobP
4 bit.ly/4fllUZO
#History
Evidently my Research Affiliate status only lets me access the library’s journals and databases when on campus. In other words it’s useless. 😑 6 weeks post-employment and the uni still finds ways to disappoint me
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Evidently my Research Affiliate status only lets me access the library’s journals and databases when on campus. In other words it’s useless. 😑 6 weeks post-employment and the uni still finds ways to disappoint me
In the home stretch for an article I’ve been dilly dallying with all summer! Today may be the day I see it all buttoned up 😬
August 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In the home stretch for an article I’ve been dilly dallying with all summer! Today may be the day I see it all buttoned up 😬