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Alexa Rodríguez
@alexarodriguezphd.bsky.social
Assist Professor @UVA ✍🏽 Crafting Dominicanidad (forth. UNC Press) about education and citizenship during the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic & director @dominicanvoices.bsky.social bilingual digital archive documenting education and childhood
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My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts.

First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...
Modernising Dominican education: transnational exchanges in the Revista de Educación during the 1916 US occupation
During the eight-year US occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), US military officials and Dominican education administrators sought to transform the school system as a way to create a mo...
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Be sure to check out this upcoming virtual event featuring a round table with Dr. @emmaamador.bsky.social and her new book, The Politics of Care Work.

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October 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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You can read some of Prof. Velasco's work on the history of Venezuela in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In UNCENSORED, education historian and professor of English, Jonna Perrillo explains how educators can establish vital community networks to ensure that meaningful, deep reading experiences continue. Pre-order this book here: https://bit.ly/46KSXDY #BannedBooksWeek
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New publication! 🚨

My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts.

First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...
Modernising Dominican education: transnational exchanges in the Revista de Educación during the 1916 US occupation
During the eight-year US occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), US military officials and Dominican education administrators sought to transform the school system as a way to create a mo...
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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We are always looking for stories. If you, or someone you know, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic between 1920 and 1960, we invite you to contact us at ProyectoVocesDominicanas@gmail.com or (434) 982-2887 (WhatsApp) to set up an interview.
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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We are recording these stories to broaden our understanding of what education and childhood were like in the Dominican Republic in the early 20th century. We aim to go beyond written sources to capture the diverse ways people learned, both within and outside of formal schools.
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The Dominican Voices Project is a bilingual digital archive that documents education and childhood in the Dominican Republic from 1920 to 1960. Our goal is to collect videotaped interviews with Dominicans who were born and raised in the country during the 1920s to 1960s.
Dominican Voices Project
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October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Don’t miss the New York Public Library’s guided tour of our San Juan Hill exhibition! 

RSVP here: https://ow.ly/mfgk50X4luW
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Upcoming Virtual Event: Emerging Scholars Café

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Emerging Scholars invites you to the relaunch of its Emerging Scholar’s Cafes on September 26, 2025 at 8pm CET/ 2pm EST/11am PST.
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Join us October 10 for an in-person conference, Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge, featuring twenty presentations by a range of scholars, researchers and cultural organizers selected via open call.

View the program and RSVP online. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Whether you are a healthcare professional, attorney, advocate, or family member, your report can contribute. This tracker may be one of the few ways these stories are documented and publicly shared.

🔻 Find more information or submit a report below 🔻

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September 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination by tying federal money to racial quotas.
Trump administration cuts grants for minority-serving colleges, declaring them unconstitutional
The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination.
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September 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.

This is wrong.

And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
August 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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***Digital History Seed Grants***

The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.

Deadline: 8/1/25

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Digital History Seed Grants
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July 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Excellent 🧵with timeless insights about technology and power
Today, we remember Max Horkheimer, a leading figure of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential voices in 20th-century critical theory. In his work, Horkheimer offered an early and powerful critique of technology as a social and political force.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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AERA—in partnership with these organizations—has filed a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s unlawful mass terminations of grants at the National Science Foundation, and the consequent harms to AERA, many of our members, and America’s scientific research enterprise. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
June 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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“‘I’m a member of the media, officer,’ Guevara tells a police officer right before he’s arrested. The video shows Guevara wearing a bright red shirt under a protective vest with ‘PRESS’ printed across his chest.” apnews.com/article/jour...
Spanish-language journalist who documents immigration raids detained for ICE after protest arrest
A Spanish-language journalist known for documenting immigration raids could face deportation proceedings after police arrested him on charges of obstructing officers and unlawful assembly as he covere...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Not From Here, the IEHS blog, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity.

We seek blog posts about identity, archival research, contemporary issues, reflections on pedagogical theory and practice, and much more!

iehs.org/submit-a-blo...
Submit a blog post
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June 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM