Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱
@rmostern.bsky.social
World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
Welcome to Bluesky @thewha.bsky.social ! This will be a great place for #worldhistory content and conversation.
We're new on Bluesky!
The World History Association is busy planning a series of conversations on current hotspots around the world and their historical context, with an eye to how those topics could be effectively incorporated into the classroom. Please watch this space and join us!
The World History Association is busy planning a series of conversations on current hotspots around the world and their historical context, with an eye to how those topics could be effectively incorporated into the classroom. Please watch this space and join us!
January 24, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @thewha.bsky.social ! This will be a great place for #worldhistory content and conversation.
I hope to see some of you at @historians.org this week! I'll be listening to all of your fab talks about #spatialhistory #DH, #worldhistory, #environmentalhistory, #chinesehistory and sitting in the exhibit hall at tables for @thewha.bsky.social and @whgazetteer.org. Find me there!
January 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I hope to see some of you at @historians.org this week! I'll be listening to all of your fab talks about #spatialhistory #DH, #worldhistory, #environmentalhistory, #chinesehistory and sitting in the exhibit hall at tables for @thewha.bsky.social and @whgazetteer.org. Find me there!
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(4) Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, and the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration, with @rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk, Alexandra Loranna, Palak Vashist. Look at Institute for Spatial History Innovation & World Historical Gazetteer. Register to participate at forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...
Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, and the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration
Description: This activity focuses on advancing collaborative methods for historical place alignment across gazetteers and related datasets within the Pelagios community. It brings together members of...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
(4) Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, and the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration, with @rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk, Alexandra Loranna, Palak Vashist. Look at Institute for Spatial History Innovation & World Historical Gazetteer. Register to participate at forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...
Zohran holding his first press conference in front of the 1964 world's fair globe at Flushing Meadow Park is everything to me. I just did a spontaneous lesson about it in my History of Cartography class.
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Zohran holding his first press conference in front of the 1964 world's fair globe at Flushing Meadow Park is everything to me. I just did a spontaneous lesson about it in my History of Cartography class.
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Rewind! As we rethink the names of streets, landmarks, etc this ep w/ @rmostern.bsky.social from last year feels very relevant. Ruth shares how mapping the past thru the World Historical Gazetteer can transform how we understand our shared histories. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
RERUN: The Power of Place with Ruth Mostern
Podcast Episode · Educating to Be Human Podcast · 10/14/2025 · 37m
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October 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Rewind! As we rethink the names of streets, landmarks, etc this ep w/ @rmostern.bsky.social from last year feels very relevant. Ruth shares how mapping the past thru the World Historical Gazetteer can transform how we understand our shared histories. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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#OTD 2 yrs ago
A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research
"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇
#tbt #dhinpractice
digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...
A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research
"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇
#tbt #dhinpractice
digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...
Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities
This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital humanities, a label that has been in use since the early yea…
digitalorientalist.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
#OTD 2 yrs ago
A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research
"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇
#tbt #dhinpractice
digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...
A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research
"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇
#tbt #dhinpractice
digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...
Reposted by Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱
The WHA is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference in Incheon, Korea, June 25-27, 2026. Find the full CFP and submission information on our conference website: thewha.org/conferences/... [Image: Incheon Grand Bridge, by Cameron Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0]
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The WHA is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference in Incheon, Korea, June 25-27, 2026. Find the full CFP and submission information on our conference website: thewha.org/conferences/... [Image: Incheon Grand Bridge, by Cameron Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0]
We are so excited about the @thewha.bsky.social conference in Incheon Korea next June! If you are interested in any aspect of teaching and research about the transnational and global human past, you should submit a paper or panel proposal and come join us! #worldhistory thewha.org/conferences/...
WHA Korea 2026
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September 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are so excited about the @thewha.bsky.social conference in Incheon Korea next June! If you are interested in any aspect of teaching and research about the transnational and global human past, you should submit a paper or panel proposal and come join us! #worldhistory thewha.org/conferences/...
I just read an op-ed in the New York Times by @dwallacewells.bsky.social that introduced me to the term "charismatic megatraumas." So good, wow.
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just read an op-ed in the New York Times by @dwallacewells.bsky.social that introduced me to the term "charismatic megatraumas." So good, wow.
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The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China in the Ming dynasty or of regions and periods connected to the Ming dynasty. Applications are due October 2, 2025. #AsianStudies cc: @asianstudies.org
Opportunities for Scholars Studying Ming Dynasty China and Its World | National Humanities Center
The NHC welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China and its world, during and adjacent to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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July 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China in the Ming dynasty or of regions and periods connected to the Ming dynasty. Applications are due October 2, 2025. #AsianStudies cc: @asianstudies.org
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Dear colleagues at #dh2025 and members of @adho, I would deeply appreciate an official stance from our professional association(s) towards the #scholasticide and wilful destruction of material and immaterial cultural heritage of predominantly Arabic-speaking societies committed by Israel in […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Dear colleagues at #dh2025 and members of @adho, I would deeply appreciate an official stance from our professional association(s) towards the #scholasticide and wilful destruction of material and immaterial cultural heritage of predominantly Arabic-speaking societies committed by Israel in […]
Congratulations to all the superstar @whcpitt.bsky.social Digital Atlas interns! Check out the project portal, which includes 82 projects spanning eight years of student work.
The Center's spring Digital Atlas Design Interns completed some awesome projects about a topic in the global past using ArcGIS StoryMaps! 🗺️
Check them out here: www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/spring-...
@rmostern.bsky.social
Check them out here: www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/spring-...
@rmostern.bsky.social
Spring 2025 Digital Atlas Design Projects are Published! | World History Center | University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate interns have completed their final projects for the Spring 2025 Digital Design Atlas Internship! Throughout the semester each intern performed historical research on a topic having to do...
www.worldhistory.pitt.edu
July 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Congratulations to all the superstar @whcpitt.bsky.social Digital Atlas interns! Check out the project portal, which includes 82 projects spanning eight years of student work.
Boosting my Digital Data Specialist position at the Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Applications due this week!
📣Job Klaxon! A good #DH #spatialhistory position at the University of Pittsburgh with me and the @whgazetteer.org at the fab new (doesn't even have a website yet) Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI).
Want to work with the WHG team? The Institute for Spatial History Innovation @ Pitt is hiring a full-time Research Associate to be the Digital Data Specialist & Managing Editor of World Historical Gazetteer!
Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki
@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk
Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki
@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Boosting my Digital Data Specialist position at the Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Applications due this week!
Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
July 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
I am hearing news today about website content coming down.
UGH.
Pitt shuts down DEI office, launches new department amid federal pressure share.google/EFOCbLOgkKqO...
Pitt shuts down DEI office, launches new department amid federal pressure share.google/EFOCbLOgkKqO...
Pitt shuts down DEI office, launches new department amid federal pressure
The University of Pittsburgh has officially closed its Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — replacing it with a newly formed Office of Institutional Engagement and Well-Being.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I am hearing news today about website content coming down.
The Pitt University Times profiled me as someone whose grant got cancelled. I talked about what @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehafge3403.bsky.social means for my research, for the humanities, and for institutions in Pittsburgh; and my student who fled the US.
Grant cancellations impact far more than the researchers involved
Work on NSF-related STEM in schools project and NEH-backed digital humanities among cuts.
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June 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Pitt University Times profiled me as someone whose grant got cancelled. I talked about what @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehafge3403.bsky.social means for my research, for the humanities, and for institutions in Pittsburgh; and my student who fled the US.
The Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) is so new that we don't even have a website yet, but we're official! We'll be the new home for @whgazetteer.org and other work in digital methods, ethics, and projects for spatial history. Here's a little article about our work. Stay tuned!
A new Pitt center will weave history and place to build a comprehensive global atlas
The Institute of Spatial History Innovation will house an interactive database that offers historical context on more than 2 million locations worldwide.
www.pittwire.pitt.edu
June 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) is so new that we don't even have a website yet, but we're official! We'll be the new home for @whgazetteer.org and other work in digital methods, ethics, and projects for spatial history. Here's a little article about our work. Stay tuned!
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Area Studies scholars take note, a new macro regional toponym has been sighted.
June 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Area Studies scholars take note, a new macro regional toponym has been sighted.
So very thrilled and honored to be spending next week with @vierth.bsky.social and other smart people at the China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop and introducing the spatial humanities to some fabulous participants. chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop 2025
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
June 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So very thrilled and honored to be spending next week with @vierth.bsky.social and other smart people at the China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop and introducing the spatial humanities to some fabulous participants. chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
#ThanksBrett from me as well.
*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
#ThanksBrett from me as well.
📣Job Klaxon! A good #DH #spatialhistory position at the University of Pittsburgh with me and the @whgazetteer.org at the fab new (doesn't even have a website yet) Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI).
Want to work with the WHG team? The Institute for Spatial History Innovation @ Pitt is hiring a full-time Research Associate to be the Digital Data Specialist & Managing Editor of World Historical Gazetteer!
Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki
@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk
Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki
@rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk
Job Opportunity - Research Associate at Institute for Spatial History Innovation | World History Center | University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) is currently accepting applications for a full-time Research Associate to act as the Digital Data Specialist. The selecte...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📣Job Klaxon! A good #DH #spatialhistory position at the University of Pittsburgh with me and the @whgazetteer.org at the fab new (doesn't even have a website yet) Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI).
Thank you @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social, @nehgov.bsky.social & @neh-odh.bsky.social: not just funders but helpful & steadfast supporters of @whgazetteer.org and so much else in our fields. The NEH selection committees I joined over the years were a source of camaraderie, the staff was the best part.
Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thank you @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social, @nehgov.bsky.social & @neh-odh.bsky.social: not just funders but helpful & steadfast supporters of @whgazetteer.org and so much else in our fields. The NEH selection committees I joined over the years were a source of camaraderie, the staff was the best part.