Rhiannon Garth Jones
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds. PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. I want to live on a boat again. She/her.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
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I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May!
It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
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It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
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Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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I’m reminded that the French pillaged artifacts of national heritage around the world and claimed it was others weren’t sufficiently modern enough or advanced enough to properly care for these important objects. When it happens (again and again) in France, it’s an “aberration”
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’m reminded that the French pillaged artifacts of national heritage around the world and claimed it was others weren’t sufficiently modern enough or advanced enough to properly care for these important objects. When it happens (again and again) in France, it’s an “aberration”
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In ‘Muslim Wales: A History in 9 Places’ Abdul-Azim Ahmed explores the stories of 9 Welsh places, and the people, artefacts and buildings associated with them, which highlight the deep history of Islam in Wales. Publishing 23 February 2026. Pre-order our website www.serenbooks.com/book/muslim-...
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In ‘Muslim Wales: A History in 9 Places’ Abdul-Azim Ahmed explores the stories of 9 Welsh places, and the people, artefacts and buildings associated with them, which highlight the deep history of Islam in Wales. Publishing 23 February 2026. Pre-order our website www.serenbooks.com/book/muslim-...
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I'm in PastsImperfect! along with a lot of very cool and exciting news 😍
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm in PastsImperfect! along with a lot of very cool and exciting news 😍
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In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
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A few years ago, we did a series called Personal Pan Histories. Each piece came with a recipe by the author. We didn't ask people to pitch simple comfort foods, but they did. Anyway, it's a good time to revisit a series of six pieces about what food means to us.
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A few years ago, we did a series called Personal Pan Histories. Each piece came with a recipe by the author. We didn't ask people to pitch simple comfort foods, but they did. Anyway, it's a good time to revisit a series of six pieces about what food means to us.
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I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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And yet they are full of rich centrists telling us to listen more to working class people
It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
And yet they are full of rich centrists telling us to listen more to working class people
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Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out.
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out.
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m not okay I don’t even have the strength to show up anymore.
But my family still holds on to me as their only hope.
Please donate for them so that there’s still something in this life worth surviving for.😞
I’m not okay I don’t even have the strength to show up anymore.
But my family still holds on to me as their only hope.
Please donate for them so that there’s still something in this life worth surviving for.😞
We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid
Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Kindly share as much as you can
I’m not okay I don’t even have the strength to show up anymore.
But my family still holds on to me as their only hope.
Please donate for them so that there’s still something in this life worth surviving for.😞
I’m not okay I don’t even have the strength to show up anymore.
But my family still holds on to me as their only hope.
Please donate for them so that there’s still something in this life worth surviving for.😞
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one of the things I love about a well-written book is the part where the writer succeeded! I just wanna high five them and be like FUCK YEAH YOU DID IT!
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
one of the things I love about a well-written book is the part where the writer succeeded! I just wanna high five them and be like FUCK YEAH YOU DID IT!
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
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I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
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NEW: 300+ writers, scholars, and public figures refuse to contribute to the New York Times Opinion section until the paper takes accountability for its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. It includes 150+ NYTs contributors. boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NEW: 300+ writers, scholars, and public figures refuse to contribute to the New York Times Opinion section until the paper takes accountability for its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. It includes 150+ NYTs contributors. boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
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No one is coming to save us but us.
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
No one is coming to save us but us.
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The language that politicians always use to respond to allegations of racism, such as "I'm not racist in my heart," is always premised on the idea that there is a pure, stable interior self that can be abstracted from the way it acts in the world. We are all post-Enlightenment Protestants.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The language that politicians always use to respond to allegations of racism, such as "I'm not racist in my heart," is always premised on the idea that there is a pure, stable interior self that can be abstracted from the way it acts in the world. We are all post-Enlightenment Protestants.
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Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
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My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future
Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
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... & the way that the precaritization of the academy leads to disabling of more & more scholars
[from www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi..., pp. 100-01]
[from www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi..., pp. 100-01]
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
... & the way that the precaritization of the academy leads to disabling of more & more scholars
[from www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi..., pp. 100-01]
[from www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi..., pp. 100-01]