Viola Müller
@vfmueller.bsky.social
Historian at Wageningen University @historywur.bsky.social | Book Review Editor at @JournalSlavery.bsky.social | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY (UNC Press) 👉 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/
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Our colleagues in Bonn are offering a bunch of #fellowships, from PhD level to full prof, for all sorts of disciplines and topics. #skystorians & friends, spread the word!
📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.
📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.
📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
October 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our colleagues in Bonn are offering a bunch of #fellowships, from PhD level to full prof, for all sorts of disciplines and topics. #skystorians & friends, spread the word!
Our colleagues in Bonn are offering a bunch of #fellowships, from PhD level to full prof, for all sorts of disciplines and topics. #skystorians & friends, spread the word!
📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.
📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.
📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
October 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our colleagues in Bonn are offering a bunch of #fellowships, from PhD level to full prof, for all sorts of disciplines and topics. #skystorians & friends, spread the word!
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The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians
associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
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Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
May 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
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This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science!
Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science!
Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
Some advertisement for an exciting public lecture by Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) in Nijmegen:
Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II
Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm
E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.)
Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7
Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II
Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm
E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.)
Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7
June 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Some advertisement for an exciting public lecture by Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) in Nijmegen:
Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II
Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm
E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.)
Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7
Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II
Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm
E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.)
Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7
Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
May 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...
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Always exciting to have a book you’ve worked on be honored as a Pulitzer finalist. It’s a remarkable book, drawing new connections between North and South that complicate our understanding of their relationship.
If you buy directly from our site and use the code ROCKMAN30 you can get 30% off.
If you buy directly from our site and use the code ROCKMAN30 you can get 30% off.
Many congratulations to Chicago author Seth Rockman, who was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book PLANTATION GOODS: A Material History of American Slavery: buff.ly/MV1ykbi 👏 🎉
May 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Always exciting to have a book you’ve worked on be honored as a Pulitzer finalist. It’s a remarkable book, drawing new connections between North and South that complicate our understanding of their relationship.
If you buy directly from our site and use the code ROCKMAN30 you can get 30% off.
If you buy directly from our site and use the code ROCKMAN30 you can get 30% off.
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Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms.
We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms - A Special Issue of Historical Materialism - Historical Materialism
Guest editors: Anna Beria (Kingston University, London), Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London), Giorgi Kobakhidze (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), Jiří Růžička (The Institute of Philoso...
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May 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms.
We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
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The work of Viola Franziska Müller, University of Bonn uk.news.yahoo.com/enslaved-bla...
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom
Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.
uk.news.yahoo.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The work of Viola Franziska Müller, University of Bonn uk.news.yahoo.com/enslaved-bla...
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It's the 10th anniversary of our 'Journal of Global Slavery'
(@journalslavery.bsky.social) 🎉
In this interview led by @vfmueller.bsky.social, the editors reflect on the current state of slavery studies and on the journal's role within the field over the past decade – and look ahead:
tiny.cc/emzh001
(@journalslavery.bsky.social) 🎉
In this interview led by @vfmueller.bsky.social, the editors reflect on the current state of slavery studies and on the journal's role within the field over the past decade – and look ahead:
tiny.cc/emzh001
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It's the 10th anniversary of our 'Journal of Global Slavery'
(@journalslavery.bsky.social) 🎉
In this interview led by @vfmueller.bsky.social, the editors reflect on the current state of slavery studies and on the journal's role within the field over the past decade – and look ahead:
tiny.cc/emzh001
(@journalslavery.bsky.social) 🎉
In this interview led by @vfmueller.bsky.social, the editors reflect on the current state of slavery studies and on the journal's role within the field over the past decade – and look ahead:
tiny.cc/emzh001
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Wij kijken over grenzen heen🔍🌍
Maak kennis met de bachelor Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies van Wageningen University & Research! Waarom is welzijn ongelijk verdeeld? Hoe kan honger nog bestaan terwijl er genoeg voedsel is? Dit zijn vragen waar je hier mee aan de slag gaat!
youtu.be/qp2zh5VuO84
Maak kennis met de bachelor Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies van Wageningen University & Research! Waarom is welzijn ongelijk verdeeld? Hoe kan honger nog bestaan terwijl er genoeg voedsel is? Dit zijn vragen waar je hier mee aan de slag gaat!
youtu.be/qp2zh5VuO84
Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies bij Wageningen University & Research - Ontdek de opleiding!
YouTube video by WURtube
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March 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Wij kijken over grenzen heen🔍🌍
Maak kennis met de bachelor Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies van Wageningen University & Research! Waarom is welzijn ongelijk verdeeld? Hoe kan honger nog bestaan terwijl er genoeg voedsel is? Dit zijn vragen waar je hier mee aan de slag gaat!
youtu.be/qp2zh5VuO84
Maak kennis met de bachelor Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies van Wageningen University & Research! Waarom is welzijn ongelijk verdeeld? Hoe kan honger nog bestaan terwijl er genoeg voedsel is? Dit zijn vragen waar je hier mee aan de slag gaat!
youtu.be/qp2zh5VuO84
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10 Years JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SLAVERY!!!🥳
In our anniversary issue, book review editor @vfmueller.bsky.social interviews founding editor Damian Pargas, current editor Ismael Montana & incoming editor Juliane Schiel about #slavery & #global #history. Access the #interview here:
brill.com/view/journal...
In our anniversary issue, book review editor @vfmueller.bsky.social interviews founding editor Damian Pargas, current editor Ismael Montana & incoming editor Juliane Schiel about #slavery & #global #history. Access the #interview here:
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
10 Years JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SLAVERY!!!🥳
In our anniversary issue, book review editor @vfmueller.bsky.social interviews founding editor Damian Pargas, current editor Ismael Montana & incoming editor Juliane Schiel about #slavery & #global #history. Access the #interview here:
brill.com/view/journal...
In our anniversary issue, book review editor @vfmueller.bsky.social interviews founding editor Damian Pargas, current editor Ismael Montana & incoming editor Juliane Schiel about #slavery & #global #history. Access the #interview here:
brill.com/view/journal...
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In addition to our new layout, and fabulous cover, this issue is also remarkable because it is a Special Issue on the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy. To begin, check out the Introduction which is free to the public for the next three months read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction
Notions of a “golden age of social democracy” have dominated the historical perspective on the immediate postwar decades, most often envisaged as a period stretching from 1945 to the oil crisis of 197...
read.dukeupress.edu
April 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In addition to our new layout, and fabulous cover, this issue is also remarkable because it is a Special Issue on the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy. To begin, check out the Introduction which is free to the public for the next three months read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
For the 10th Anniversary of the #Journal of #Global #Slavery, I interviewed the founding, present & incoming editors, Damian Pargas, Ismael Montana & Juliane Schiel, about the field of slavery studies, the development of global #history & their plans for the future of JGS:
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
For the 10th Anniversary of the #Journal of #Global #Slavery, I interviewed the founding, present & incoming editors, Damian Pargas, Ismael Montana & Juliane Schiel, about the field of slavery studies, the development of global #history & their plans for the future of JGS:
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
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It's been tough to keep mum about this:
I'm deeply honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery (2026), will help launch @uncpress.bsky.social's new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint, edited by the incomparable @dgershenowitz.bsky.social.
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
I'm deeply honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery (2026), will help launch @uncpress.bsky.social's new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint, edited by the incomparable @dgershenowitz.bsky.social.
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Shelf Awareness for Thursday, March 20, 2025
Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's been tough to keep mum about this:
I'm deeply honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery (2026), will help launch @uncpress.bsky.social's new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint, edited by the incomparable @dgershenowitz.bsky.social.
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
I'm deeply honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery (2026), will help launch @uncpress.bsky.social's new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint, edited by the incomparable @dgershenowitz.bsky.social.
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
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Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline.
librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...
librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...
March 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline.
librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...
librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...
Did you publish a book on #slavery (in any field or discipline) last year? Consider submitting it for the Paul Lovejoy Prize!
#skystorians
#skystorians
March 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Did you publish a book on #slavery (in any field or discipline) last year? Consider submitting it for the Paul Lovejoy Prize!
#skystorians
#skystorians
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Yesterday I couldn't get the link to work, but today I was actually able to look at the site and Y'ALL y'all y'all - this is so cool. So many stories! So many different fields! Women at sea is a very exciting thing to be studying!
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...
Rewriting Women into Maritime History
The Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre explores the history, importance and development of maritime safety through Lloyd's Register's renowned archive, library and expertise.
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk
February 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Yesterday I couldn't get the link to work, but today I was actually able to look at the site and Y'ALL y'all y'all - this is so cool. So many stories! So many different fields! Women at sea is a very exciting thing to be studying!
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...
hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...
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#Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary this year. As I did previously on twitter, this #blackhistorymonth I will post a story from Amsterdam's rich Black history every day. #skyhistorians #blackhistorymonth2025 #amsterdam750
February 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary this year. As I did previously on twitter, this #blackhistorymonth I will post a story from Amsterdam's rich Black history every day. #skyhistorians #blackhistorymonth2025 #amsterdam750
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Lees het Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis-themanummer ‘Wie schrijft onze geschiedenis van de slavernij’ in open access: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (Journal of History) is the only Dutch academic, peer-reviewed history journal that covers the history from antiquity until now, both Dutch and non-Dutch. Tijdschrift voo...
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January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lees het Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis-themanummer ‘Wie schrijft onze geschiedenis van de slavernij’ in open access: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
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Een gouden tip voor mensen met een adres in Nederland (anders werkt het niet): een abonnement bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek kost slechts €15 per jaar en geeft toegang via "PressReader" tot honderden buitenlandse kranten.
January 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Een gouden tip voor mensen met een adres in Nederland (anders werkt het niet): een abonnement bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek kost slechts €15 per jaar en geeft toegang via "PressReader" tot honderden buitenlandse kranten.
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My group (Economic & Environmental History at Wageningen) is looking for two new PhDs to work on institutions and deforestation in Southeast Asian history. Pim de Zwart is a true sweetie and would be a gr8 supervisor + the group is such a nice place to do research. Apply! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
PhD on the History of Malaysian Deforestation
www.wur.nl
January 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My group (Economic & Environmental History at Wageningen) is looking for two new PhDs to work on institutions and deforestation in Southeast Asian history. Pim de Zwart is a true sweetie and would be a gr8 supervisor + the group is such a nice place to do research. Apply! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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NEWS!!!
A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested.
🗃️ #EarlyModern
A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested.
🗃️ #EarlyModern
CFP: Medicine, Slavery, & Race in the Atlantic World — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
www.mmor.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEWS!!!
A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested.
🗃️ #EarlyModern
A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested.
🗃️ #EarlyModern
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Historian here, I approve of this message. Our Second Gilded Age might be worse than the First. In #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic I link the fall of Reconstruction with the rise of gross economic inequality and monopolistic trusts and corporations. Musk Bezos Zuckerberg and co are worse
Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hun...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Historian here, I approve of this message. Our Second Gilded Age might be worse than the First. In #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic I link the fall of Reconstruction with the rise of gross economic inequality and monopolistic trusts and corporations. Musk Bezos Zuckerberg and co are worse