Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
@poxygraduate.bsky.social
PhD in HSTM, Lecturer Public Health & Society at Wash U STL - South Africa, British empire, public health - #envhist, water supply, urbanity - Fulbright, NSF - She/her
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Crafting Uneven Waterscapes: The Well, the Tank, and the Racialised Contestation of Early Water Infrastructure in Colonial Durban, 1854–1898
Following borough incorporation in 1854, Durban took control of and built on the existing spiderwebbed networks of wells and tanks to maintain a clean water supply until the introduction of piped w...
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Happy to say I've got another new article out to end the summer: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to the SAHJ's fabulous editors and peer reviewers - they truly gave this piece new life!
Thanks to the SAHJ's fabulous editors and peer reviewers - they truly gave this piece new life!
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🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
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The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
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Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city’s archives
Colonial era records reveal the intersection of race and access to water in South Africa’s history.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
@nursingclio.bsky.social
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
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features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
A New Film about Ida Craddock: An Interview with the Director
A new docu-drama about reproductive freedom and women’s rights, Sex Radical chronicles the life of Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a feminist, spiritualist, and sex educator. Craddock frequently ran afou…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@nursingclio.bsky.social
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
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I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
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October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
wp.me
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Wash U's School of Public Health is hiring an environmental/planetary health scholar (among other things)! Disciplines to apply include but are not limited to geography, biostats, toxicology, and economics 🌎💉
apply.interfolio.com/173629
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October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wash U's School of Public Health is hiring an environmental/planetary health scholar (among other things)! Disciplines to apply include but are not limited to geography, biostats, toxicology, and economics 🌎💉
apply.interfolio.com/173629
apply.interfolio.com/173629
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There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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Editor of William and Mary Quarterly
Job Requisition: JR100984 Editor of William and Mary Quarterly (Open) Job Posting Title: Editor of William and Mary Quarterly Department: CC00007 WM001 | PRES | OIEAHC - Omohundro Institute Job Family...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊
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Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…
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October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
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So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
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I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
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I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".
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"Strange."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @davidkphd.bsky.social & @nursingclio.bsky.social!
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @davidkphd.bsky.social & @nursingclio.bsky.social!
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The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley: A Habitual Drunkard’s Journey Through Guardianship and the Asylum
In the 1880s, a court declared that Henrietta Wiley – a wealthy New York heiress and socialite – was a habitual drunkard and put her under guardianship. Her court-appointed guardian subsequently co…
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October 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Strange."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @davidkphd.bsky.social & @nursingclio.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @davidkphd.bsky.social & @nursingclio.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria
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Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
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#envhist
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...
niche-canada.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
Eram Alam's important new book on immigrant physicians is coming out! We'd *love* for someone to review it for @nursingclio.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
The Care of Foreigners
How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare
www.press.jhu.edu
September 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Eram Alam's important new book on immigrant physicians is coming out! We'd *love* for someone to review it for @nursingclio.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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COVID and flu shots ✅
Have you scheduled yours yet?
Have you scheduled yours yet?
September 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
COVID and flu shots ✅
Have you scheduled yours yet?
Have you scheduled yours yet?