Crystal Felima, PhD
@phelima.bsky.social
🌍 Africana Anthropologist
🏫 Assistant Professor @ University of Kentucky
🍃 Disaster Studies, Environmental Crises, & Black/Island Ecologies
✍🏾 Flooding in Haiti (book), emergency management in Puerto Rico, & climate change in KY Appalachia
🏫 Assistant Professor @ University of Kentucky
🍃 Disaster Studies, Environmental Crises, & Black/Island Ecologies
✍🏾 Flooding in Haiti (book), emergency management in Puerto Rico, & climate change in KY Appalachia
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Maxwell Boykoff, Brenda McNally, James Painter, marysanford.bsky.social, Emily P. Diamond, Marc Esteve-del-Valle, Loredana Loy, Kelly E. Perry, Urooj S. Raja & Robin Tschötschel all co-authored this piece.
For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp
For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp
Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power - Brown Climate Social Science Network
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June 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Maxwell Boykoff, Brenda McNally, James Painter, marysanford.bsky.social, Emily P. Diamond, Marc Esteve-del-Valle, Loredana Loy, Kelly E. Perry, Urooj S. Raja & Robin Tschötschel all co-authored this piece.
For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp
For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp
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If you're looking for graduate opportunities related to the Pleistocene extinctions, megafaunal impacts on ecological resilience, or the timescales of ecological recovery from perturbations, I'd love to support a Simons Fellowship applicant. Please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you're looking for graduate opportunities related to the Pleistocene extinctions, megafaunal impacts on ecological resilience, or the timescales of ecological recovery from perturbations, I'd love to support a Simons Fellowship applicant. Please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
🔈Support needed: "An email from you urging Wenner-Gren President Danilyn Rutherford and the Board of Trustees to continue funding our magazine and its staff could help save SAPIENS. " @sapiens.org #Anthropology
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and it's Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
actionnetwork.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🔈Support needed: "An email from you urging Wenner-Gren President Danilyn Rutherford and the Board of Trustees to continue funding our magazine and its staff could help save SAPIENS. " @sapiens.org #Anthropology
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Haiti begged nearby countries for help against gangs, but the U.S. said it won’t keep paying for the fight.
#HaitiCrisis #GangViolence #USFundingCut #OAS #InternationalAid
#HaitiCrisis #GangViolence #USFundingCut #OAS #InternationalAid
May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Haiti begged nearby countries for help against gangs, but the U.S. said it won’t keep paying for the fight.
#HaitiCrisis #GangViolence #USFundingCut #OAS #InternationalAid
#HaitiCrisis #GangViolence #USFundingCut #OAS #InternationalAid
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Are you a digital humanities scholar looking to sharpen your digital project-building skills, receive funding, and create an open access project on a supported platform? Apply now!
Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST.
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Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
May 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Are you a digital humanities scholar looking to sharpen your digital project-building skills, receive funding, and create an open access project on a supported platform? Apply now!
Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Contemplative Environmentalism Workshop for EDUCATORS & ACTIVISTS
July 14-19, 2025 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800 (includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
www.lamafoundation.org/contemplativ...
July 14-19, 2025 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800 (includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
www.lamafoundation.org/contemplativ...
Contemplative Environmentalism | The Lama Foundation
www.lamafoundation.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Contemplative Environmentalism Workshop for EDUCATORS & ACTIVISTS
July 14-19, 2025 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800 (includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
www.lamafoundation.org/contemplativ...
July 14-19, 2025 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800 (includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
www.lamafoundation.org/contemplativ...
🚨The @appliedanthro.bsky.social First Book Proposal Prize in Critical Disaster Studies is open for donations! Help us support emerging scholars writing about disasters & crises.
🔗 Donate here: appliedanthro.org/donate 💸
📚 Prize Information: bit.ly/4d9msB8
🌍Please share + support!
🔗 Donate here: appliedanthro.org/donate 💸
📚 Prize Information: bit.ly/4d9msB8
🌍Please share + support!
May 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚨The @appliedanthro.bsky.social First Book Proposal Prize in Critical Disaster Studies is open for donations! Help us support emerging scholars writing about disasters & crises.
🔗 Donate here: appliedanthro.org/donate 💸
📚 Prize Information: bit.ly/4d9msB8
🌍Please share + support!
🔗 Donate here: appliedanthro.org/donate 💸
📚 Prize Information: bit.ly/4d9msB8
🌍Please share + support!
📣 The Haitian Studies Association is now accepting nominations for the 2025 HSA Book Prize! 🏆
Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!
Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky
Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!
Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky
May 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📣 The Haitian Studies Association is now accepting nominations for the 2025 HSA Book Prize! 🏆
Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!
Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky
Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!
Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky
Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies
Applications for academic year 2025-2026 are due on April 1, 2025.
Applications for academic year 2025-2026 are due on April 1, 2025.
Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies | Center for Latin American Studies
clas.stanford.edu
March 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies
Applications for academic year 2025-2026 are due on April 1, 2025.
Applications for academic year 2025-2026 are due on April 1, 2025.
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people in November.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people in November.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people in November.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people in November.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This graphic spoke to me, from Rep. Pressley
February 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This graphic spoke to me, from Rep. Pressley
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The White House asserted today that it would control who gets to cover the president in the White House and via the White House pool for the first time in our history - providing an authoritarian-style mechanism to shape coverage and retaliate against disfavored outlets. Right out of the textbooks.
February 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The White House asserted today that it would control who gets to cover the president in the White House and via the White House pool for the first time in our history - providing an authoritarian-style mechanism to shape coverage and retaliate against disfavored outlets. Right out of the textbooks.
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I just learned about the Congo Basin Science Initiative to increase research capacity in the Congo Basin. They're recruiting students from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon or Republic of the Congo for a bunch of relevant graduate studies scholarships and projects! 🧪🌍
List of projects | Congo Basin Science Initiative
Explore a full list of CBSI Scholarship projects, across different institutons and countries in the Congo Basin region.
congobasinscience.net
February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I just learned about the Congo Basin Science Initiative to increase research capacity in the Congo Basin. They're recruiting students from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon or Republic of the Congo for a bunch of relevant graduate studies scholarships and projects! 🧪🌍
The Black Midwest Initiative (BMI) at the University of Illinois Chicago invites applications from early-career scholars, artists, and community organizers to its 2025 Summer Institute on Environmental Justice. www.theblackmidwest.com/summer-insti...
2025 Summer Institute — Black Midwest Initiative
www.theblackmidwest.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Black Midwest Initiative (BMI) at the University of Illinois Chicago invites applications from early-career scholars, artists, and community organizers to its 2025 Summer Institute on Environmental Justice. www.theblackmidwest.com/summer-insti...
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Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies.
She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas.
Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia.
I can't stop thinking about her. 💔
She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas.
Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia.
I can't stop thinking about her. 💔
“I regret having to sleep out there so bad. I tell them, ‘I’m sorry, but I tried.’”
These kids deserved our protection. This mother deserves our protection. We are collectively failing one another.
These kids deserved our protection. This mother deserves our protection. We are collectively failing one another.
Mom of 2 kids who froze to death while sleeping in a van says she asked for help: ‘I’m sorry, but I tried’
The mom of two children who died from hypothermia while sleeping in a cold van said she has asked for help for a long time.
www.wdam.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies.
She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas.
Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia.
I can't stop thinking about her. 💔
She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas.
Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia.
I can't stop thinking about her. 💔
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Trump and Musk's (DOGE) funding cuts are crippling global efforts to combat child rape networks & human trafficking. Critical programs supported by USAID & the State Department are being shut down—leaving vulnerable children without protection from organized crime. #OpDeathEaters
February 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Trump and Musk's (DOGE) funding cuts are crippling global efforts to combat child rape networks & human trafficking. Critical programs supported by USAID & the State Department are being shut down—leaving vulnerable children without protection from organized crime. #OpDeathEaters
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Terrible news from one of my favorite professors at LSU: "Cultural Heritage and Traditional Knowledge of Vulnerable Coastal Communities," a 5 year, $925k study documenting people's senses of place and lived experiences with land loss along Louisiana's coast
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February 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Terrible news from one of my favorite professors at LSU: "Cultural Heritage and Traditional Knowledge of Vulnerable Coastal Communities," a 5 year, $925k study documenting people's senses of place and lived experiences with land loss along Louisiana's coast
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USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil
Report from inspector general’s office criticized Trump administration’s attempt to drastically cut USAID
www.independent.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If you're writing and need a virtual community, look into Caveday.org. It's my guaranteed "writing group" and I don't have to worry about no-shows. lol. I have the unlimited plan for students & educators. 100% recommend!
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If you're writing and need a virtual community, look into Caveday.org. It's my guaranteed "writing group" and I don't have to worry about no-shows. lol. I have the unlimited plan for students & educators. 100% recommend!
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Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
February 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
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Melbourne Uni has curated a collection of Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers & Thought & Practices from the Global South of 677 items. Two years in the making. Humbled to feature in it; can't believe my luck to share space w/ folks I hold in high esteem.
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...
Browse Items · Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au
January 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Melbourne Uni has curated a collection of Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers & Thought & Practices from the Global South of 677 items. Two years in the making. Humbled to feature in it; can't believe my luck to share space w/ folks I hold in high esteem.
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...