Melissa N. Morris
@ookwow.bsky.social
Historian of the 17th C. Americas: environment, plants, failed colonies, maps and more. Lover of travel, languages, stationery, and dresses. Wyoming isn't real unless you want to come visit me.
Stepping out in the most expensive outfits we own! Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
May 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Stepping out in the most expensive outfits we own! Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
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Today and tomorrow at the Clark Library (UCLA):
Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities - The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT - Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown ...
www.1718.ucla.edu
April 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Today and tomorrow at the Clark Library (UCLA):
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We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq
American Council of Learned Societies Awards 62 ACLS Fellowships
ACLS Fellowships award $3.5 million to scholars in recognition of excellence in humanities and social sciences research
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April 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq
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Fellowship Opportunity!
SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply.
shear.org/about-us/she...
SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply.
shear.org/about-us/she...
SHEAR DEI Research Fellowships – SHEAR
shear.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Fellowship Opportunity!
SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply.
shear.org/about-us/she...
SHEAR offers fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, early career, contingent faculty encouraged to apply.
shear.org/about-us/she...
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If you're in NYC on Friday, April 5th, check out this fantastic program at Columbia, Early Modern Women on the Move with leading lights of the field including Merry Wiesner-Hanks, @martinevanelk.bsky.social, and @ninalamal.bsky.social. (and it's free): www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode...
Early Modern Women on the Move:
Space, Materiality, and Transnationalism
www.eventbrite.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you're in NYC on Friday, April 5th, check out this fantastic program at Columbia, Early Modern Women on the Move with leading lights of the field including Merry Wiesner-Hanks, @martinevanelk.bsky.social, and @ninalamal.bsky.social. (and it's free): www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode...
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No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.
March 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
No NEH summer stipends this year. Shocked face.
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‼️Proposals due 3/31: The 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (LACDH) will take place at the University of Puerto Rico from 11/5/25–11/7/25, followed by an online component on the 13th and 14th. More info available here: guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...
Guides @ UF: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: LACDH Symposium
Guides @ UF: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: LACDH Symposium
guides.uflib.ufl.edu
March 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
‼️Proposals due 3/31: The 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (LACDH) will take place at the University of Puerto Rico from 11/5/25–11/7/25, followed by an online component on the 13th and 14th. More info available here: guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...
It also seems like there is a big opportunity for some country, somewhere (that isn't already sick of foreign students) to expand their English-language degree offerings and attract not just the academics, but the students.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It also seems like there is a big opportunity for some country, somewhere (that isn't already sick of foreign students) to expand their English-language degree offerings and attract not just the academics, but the students.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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Still looking for someone to talk about their book with us on April 28…
We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia.
If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!
If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!
The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities
newnatures.org
March 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Still looking for someone to talk about their book with us on April 28…
If you/your student are interested in learning more about our FUNDED MA in History, join our information session on Thursday at 12:15 MT. It is hybrid, so you can join us from anywhere in the world! If you are interested, please get in touch and I will send you the link.
March 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you/your student are interested in learning more about our FUNDED MA in History, join our information session on Thursday at 12:15 MT. It is hybrid, so you can join us from anywhere in the world! If you are interested, please get in touch and I will send you the link.
Hi Everyone! We have extended our deadline until April 1, so there is still time to apply to our MA program. We have several fully funded spots available. We also provide money for summer research and conference travel. If you have questions, please get in touch. Spread the word!
If you have (or are) a student interested in pursuing grad school in History, the University of Wyoming has a funded MA! We do not require the GRE and applications are due March 1. I am happy to answer any questions. More on applying here: www.uwyo.edu/history/grad...
Applying to M.A. in History
www.uwyo.edu
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hi Everyone! We have extended our deadline until April 1, so there is still time to apply to our MA program. We have several fully funded spots available. We also provide money for summer research and conference travel. If you have questions, please get in touch. Spread the word!
Absolute dream job here!
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
www.uu.nl
March 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Absolute dream job here!
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Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.
February 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.
Still puzzling over this Valentine my son got. If it's not sloppy, it's sublime.
February 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Still puzzling over this Valentine my son got. If it's not sloppy, it's sublime.
It will probably kill me to take control of my 10 million photos, zillion emails, shared calendar, hundreds of docs, etc etc but I'm going to try to quit Google.
WHY IS GOOGLE DOING THIS?
I mean, yeah, they want to keep government contracts (which may now be an outsized part of the business).
But conceding to an autocrat is EXPENSIVE. The only cost-effective thing to do is fight back at the first chance you've got. Every concession just increases the cost.
I mean, yeah, they want to keep government contracts (which may now be an outsized part of the business).
But conceding to an autocrat is EXPENSIVE. The only cost-effective thing to do is fight back at the first chance you've got. Every concession just increases the cost.
Is Google Calendar part of the government?
Will Google lose contracts if Holocaust Remembrance Day is on the calendar?
Google Maps changes are odious but maps require standardization. There's no excuse for this.
Thanks for another great reason to exit Google products!
Will Google lose contracts if Holocaust Remembrance Day is on the calendar?
Google Maps changes are odious but maps require standardization. There's no excuse for this.
Thanks for another great reason to exit Google products!
February 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It will probably kill me to take control of my 10 million photos, zillion emails, shared calendar, hundreds of docs, etc etc but I'm going to try to quit Google.
I gave a lecture today and included this picture on a slide, so that is my one nod to cultural relevance. Back to 90s-kid jokes no one gets for the rest of the semester.
February 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I gave a lecture today and included this picture on a slide, so that is my one nod to cultural relevance. Back to 90s-kid jokes no one gets for the rest of the semester.
I just received the reader's reports for my book and they are *so* helpful. Our profession relies on a lot of behind-the-scenes, anonymous labor and I am filled with deep gratitude for the many people who took time to engage with my work in the past several months.
February 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I just received the reader's reports for my book and they are *so* helpful. Our profession relies on a lot of behind-the-scenes, anonymous labor and I am filled with deep gratitude for the many people who took time to engage with my work in the past several months.
Talking a little about empathy in Historical Methods today, and bringing in this quote, used as an epigraph in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light. It gets me every time.
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Talking a little about empathy in Historical Methods today, and bringing in this quote, used as an epigraph in Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light. It gets me every time.
If you have (or are) a student interested in pursuing grad school in History, the University of Wyoming has a funded MA! We do not require the GRE and applications are due March 1. I am happy to answer any questions. More on applying here: www.uwyo.edu/history/grad...
Applying to M.A. in History
www.uwyo.edu
January 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If you have (or are) a student interested in pursuing grad school in History, the University of Wyoming has a funded MA! We do not require the GRE and applications are due March 1. I am happy to answer any questions. More on applying here: www.uwyo.edu/history/grad...
14 degrees at 10am on the first day of "spring" semester
January 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
14 degrees at 10am on the first day of "spring" semester
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'We welcome applications from anyone with relevant lived or academic experience who can demonstrate a commitment and ability to undertake independent research.'
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:46 AM
'We welcome applications from anyone with relevant lived or academic experience who can demonstrate a commitment and ability to undertake independent research.'
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One month left to submit an essay for inclusion in the first of two double issues of the redesigned HLQ, to be published in September 2025. The call for submissions is attached, and also available here. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...
Please share!
Please share!
December 17, 2024 at 2:32 AM
One month left to submit an essay for inclusion in the first of two double issues of the redesigned HLQ, to be published in September 2025. The call for submissions is attached, and also available here. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...
Please share!
Please share!