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Kelly Hammond
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Associate Professor of East Asian History | Associate Director of International and Global Studies | Associate Editor for Modern China at The Journal of Asian Studies | Accidental military historian
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I'm "you're gonna need progressive lenses" years old... 😱
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We had a guest cancel their visit to campus because of flight chaos. It’s like a bonus day! I wrote four reference letters for students heading off into the world and finished reviewing a book ms for a press. 📋✅
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Just two besties snuggling up on a cold day.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I thought we all agreed during Covid that sending your students to interview other professors as an assignment is downright RUDE.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At “Public Intellectuals and State Power in Twentieth-Century China,” at the Southwest AAS conference at Texas A&M San Antonio. @asianstudies.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I've got my Louisiana in-laws rooting for the Jays. 😂
blue jays win is written on a blue background
ALT: blue jays win is written on a blue background
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October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I need blood pressure meds to get me through the rest of this World Series.
a blue jays mascot on a baseball field
ALT: a blue jays mascot on a baseball field
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October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dino's been a Jays fan since he was a wee lad.
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Go JAYS!
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Took my students to Special Collections to work with archives today. 🤓📜
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Fergie got a new bed because the cat stole her other one. She wanted to show you all how much she loves being cozy.
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My graduate student just told that I should get some rest and that I look tired. 😑
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I was on the selection committee for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize (History).

I am SO HAPPY that the winner is Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's AMAZING book "Archipelago of Resettlement Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine." 🎉👍

www.acls.org/2025-acls-op...
2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards
The ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award aspire to generate enthusiasm and prestige for this new mode of publication among humanistic scholars. The prizes further aim t...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Blue Jays and Mariners both joined the MLB in 1977 and they’ve never met in the playoffs before (besides in 2022 when mariners swept them in wildcard).

GO JAYS!
a blue jays mascot is standing on a baseball field .
ALT: a blue jays mascot is standing on a baseball field .
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October 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎉👍 Big congrats to David Tobin, Tim Grose and Emily Upson on their ACLS China Studies Collaborative Research Grant, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."

www.acls.org/recent-fello...
Recent Fellows
Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and  social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Guys, I'm exhausted.
September 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Best thing I've seen all week.
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
September 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Made a lasagna (pasta included) from scratch. Garfield would be proud.
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Bai Chongxi meets with an African delegate in Taipei for the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League Conference.
September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm sure people in OK are devastated. What a chump.

www.koco.com/article/ryan...
Ryan Walters to resign as Oklahoma state superintendent for private sector job
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday that he will resign from office and take a job in the private sector.
www.koco.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I bet there is at least one H1B holder in every department in every college at my university.

As an immigrant who is now a dual Canadian and American citizen, I can't imagine the needless stress and anxiety these faculty members are facing right now.
September 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Enjoying the ☀️☀️☀️☀️
September 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Arkansas, in a nutshell.

Also, made a pawpaw cheesecake last year with foraged pawpaws and it was 🔥🔥🔥!!!
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
When I was ten, my dad gave me a tree in a park for my birthday. The tree is now 36 years old and provides shade for the community at Three Valleys Park in North York. 🇨🇦🌳💚💚
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM