Sarah Cramsey
@sarahacramsey.bsky.social
Historian; Professor for Central European Studies & Judaism and Diaspora Studies @UniLeiden.bsky.social; Author of _Uprooting the Diaspora_ @IUPress.bsky.social; PI of “CareCentury” @ERC.europa.eu; Director, Austria Centre Leiden; Lover of cortados
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🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego
The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.
instytutpileckiego.pl
July 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
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Just learned that Veronika Tuckerová's long expected book on the afterlives of Kafka's readership in Czechoslovakia is out, with Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...
Reading Kafka in Prague
An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to the end of communism 1989.In the first bo…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Just learned that Veronika Tuckerová's long expected book on the afterlives of Kafka's readership in Czechoslovakia is out, with Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...
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We have an interesting #JOBopening for an EHRI-ERIC Research and Content Officer who will work at the EHRI Central Hub located at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Come and join our nice team! Apply before 15 July! www.ehri-project.eu/job-opening-...
June 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We have an interesting #JOBopening for an EHRI-ERIC Research and Content Officer who will work at the EHRI Central Hub located at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Come and join our nice team! Apply before 15 July! www.ehri-project.eu/job-opening-...
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In one chapter of my forthcoming book "People Without History Are Dust" I examine Gad Beck, his queerness, sexual barter, sexualized violence, agency, his decision to out his lovers and colleagues, the whole beautiful mess:
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People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press
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June 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
In one chapter of my forthcoming book "People Without History Are Dust" I examine Gad Beck, his queerness, sexual barter, sexualized violence, agency, his decision to out his lovers and colleagues, the whole beautiful mess:
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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His memoir, co-written with Frank Heibert, is available in English with @uwiscpress.bsky.social and I have it on good authority it still sells well. No surprise! it is one of the most captivating, moving, funny, and authentic reads you will get your hands on.
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...
An Underground Life
uwpress.wisc.edu
June 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
His memoir, co-written with Frank Heibert, is available in English with @uwiscpress.bsky.social and I have it on good authority it still sells well. No surprise! it is one of the most captivating, moving, funny, and authentic reads you will get your hands on.
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...
Hot off the press: Lancet Perspectives piece by @homeiaya.bsky.social and colleagues, on reproductive justice, involuntary sterilisation, and the long legacy of eugenics in Japan.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Confronting and archiving the eugenic past in Japan
According to Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger, reproductive justice “demands sexual
autonomy and gender freedom for every human being”. Proponents of reproductive justice
in Anglophone countries have ...
www.thelancet.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective."
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815
The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective
Read this new piece by Elisheva Baumgarten, “The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective,” in: Von unbequemen Dominikanern, organisierte...
mjsnow.hypotheses.org
June 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective."
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815
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📣 New Long Read!
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement.
ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement.
ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...
A braided stream of histories in the Polish “Recovered Territories” - CEU Review of Books
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displ...
ceureviewofbooks.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
📣 New Long Read!
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement.
ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement.
ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...
CFP: “Care and the #Jewish Experience” @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on Sept. 16, 2025
How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time?
#Jewishstudies #CareCentury
How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time?
#Jewishstudies #CareCentury
May 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
CFP: “Care and the #Jewish Experience” @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on Sept. 16, 2025
How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time?
#Jewishstudies #CareCentury
How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time?
#Jewishstudies #CareCentury
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Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
May 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development.
Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.
Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.
Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.
Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.
May 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As the Trump administration shrinks child care programs, Republicans are backing policies they hope will allow more parents to scale back at work. Senator Jim Banks of Indiana introduced a bill that would effectively pay stay-at-home parents. Other Republicans want to expand the child tax credit.
Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
On #InternationalMidwivesDay, here's Scribonia Attica, an Athenian who worked with her surgeon husband Marcus Ulpius Amerimnus in Ostia in the 2nd c. CE. She commissioned the family sepulcre, which proudly depicts her in action, pulling the baby from her client's body.
May 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Just President Zelensky casually hangs out with Ukrainian cleaning staff at the Czech parliament
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Just President Zelensky casually hangs out with Ukrainian cleaning staff at the Czech parliament
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Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Digital platforms mediating work between customers and service providers have expanded exponentially in the past decade, driving a growing research agenda on the impact of platform capitalism, AI, and...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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New on advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism"
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism*
Abstract. This article shows how the European Community sought to become a global climate leader during the 1980s and 1990s, only to fail to make progress
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
New on advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism"
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Yeah, except that many of these global institutions, including most European ones, have been busy gutting their own systems & driving their own researchers away! So good luck finding jobs at this side of the pond.
Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?
Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?
As US federal funding cuts and layoffs drive some researchers out of the nation, institutions in other countries are pivoting to position themselves as a refuge for top scientific talent. cen.acs.org/careers/empl... #chemsky🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter
Global science bodies pivot to capitalize on US brain drain
Canada and China both have reasons to lure top talent, but Europe’s sense of urgency runs higher
cen.acs.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yeah, except that many of these global institutions, including most European ones, have been busy gutting their own systems & driving their own researchers away! So good luck finding jobs at this side of the pond.
Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?
Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?
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Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them!
The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
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
bit.ly
April 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them!
The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
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Author number 4 from the @aseh.bsky.social conference is @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Marc Landry, pictured below with his book Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age. #aseh2025
April 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Author number 4 from the @aseh.bsky.social conference is @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Marc Landry, pictured below with his book Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age. #aseh2025
News Analysis: Parental leave is hardly a cutting-edge subject in the year 2025. But the fight over a bipartisan measure that would have allowed new parents in the House to vote remotely highlights how much further to the right Republicans are than much of mainstream U.S. culture.
Proxy Voting Defeat Reflects a House Out of Step With Modern Culture
A majority of House members backed changing the rules to allow new parents to vote remotely. But in a Congress dominated by far-right Republicans, parental leave was a bridge too far.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Want to learn more about quantifying carework and why we need to rethink how we count GDP? This episode of "The Conversation on @bbcnews.bsky.social was brilliant. #Carecentury, my @erc.europa.eu thanks Emma Holten and @jayatighosh.bsky.social. Wanna come to @unileiden.bsky.social and tell us more?
April 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Want to learn more about quantifying carework and why we need to rethink how we count GDP? This episode of "The Conversation on @bbcnews.bsky.social was brilliant. #Carecentury, my @erc.europa.eu thanks Emma Holten and @jayatighosh.bsky.social. Wanna come to @unileiden.bsky.social and tell us more?
Want to get a PHD in the history of early childcare and invisible work in central and eastern Europe, from 1905-2004? come work with me @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant Project! Deadline April 11!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe
Vacancies: PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe The PhD candidates will become part of a research team exploring a century of early childcare and the i...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Want to get a PHD in the history of early childcare and invisible work in central and eastern Europe, from 1905-2004? come work with me @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant Project! Deadline April 11!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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Sarah Cramsey's recent book
March 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sarah Cramsey's recent book
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Oxford has now made my introductory chapter freely available. The hope is that once you start reading, you'll want to recommend the book to your library.
Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.
Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.
March 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oxford has now made my introductory chapter freely available. The hope is that once you start reading, you'll want to recommend the book to your library.
Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.
Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.
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The Bracewell Scolarship gives PhD students from, and studying, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe an opportunity to work at @uclssees.bsky.social for a term. Applications are open, deadline is 30 April. Please share.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...
Bracewell Scholarship applications are now open
For current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The Bracewell Scolarship gives PhD students from, and studying, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe an opportunity to work at @uclssees.bsky.social for a term. Applications are open, deadline is 30 April. Please share.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...