Erik Braeden Lewis, PhD
@braedenfrev.bsky.social
Instructor, History (Doña Ana Community College). PhD, History (Florida State). French Revolution. Émigrés. Family. Franco-Spanish Borderlands. Catalan Identity and Resistance. Social Networks. Madame du Barry. Domestic Servants. Human Trafficking.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Need a new friend on Pokemon Go?
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Need a new friend on Pokemon Go?
I just submitted a proposal to be an AI Faculty Fellow for the Spring 2026 semester. Stepping way out of my comfort zone.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I just submitted a proposal to be an AI Faculty Fellow for the Spring 2026 semester. Stepping way out of my comfort zone.
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I'm on the Budget Committee this year at my college. Just finished the meeting of budget requests...tough decisions ahead. Also, I probably have more questions now than answers about how college budgets work. Interesting stuff, y'all.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm on the Budget Committee this year at my college. Just finished the meeting of budget requests...tough decisions ahead. Also, I probably have more questions now than answers about how college budgets work. Interesting stuff, y'all.
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I do think students should learn to use AI to help them succeed in our hellish society. Just not in my humanities classroom, in which we learn about art humans created and in which we seek to improve and sharpen intellectual faculties unique to humans.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I do think students should learn to use AI to help them succeed in our hellish society. Just not in my humanities classroom, in which we learn about art humans created and in which we seek to improve and sharpen intellectual faculties unique to humans.
Reposted by Erik Braeden Lewis, PhD
Nerd life is L I F E
Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Nerd life is L I F E
Frankly, the biggest drawback to teaching at a community college (all lower-level survey courses) is that I don't get to spend enough time talking about the French Revolution.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Frankly, the biggest drawback to teaching at a community college (all lower-level survey courses) is that I don't get to spend enough time talking about the French Revolution.
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Anybody else have more and more students just...refuse to turn in any work, despite announcements and emails and interventions with case managers and the whole nine yards?
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November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anybody else have more and more students just...refuse to turn in any work, despite announcements and emails and interventions with case managers and the whole nine yards?
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This is terrible. Some of the best and brightest professors, and especially one who co-chaired my research for my PhD (while at a Florida public university), are "foreign employees." I wouldn't be where I am today without their instruction and guidance.
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is terrible. Some of the best and brightest professors, and especially one who co-chaired my research for my PhD (while at a Florida public university), are "foreign employees." I wouldn't be where I am today without their instruction and guidance.
I'm just caught up enough on work that I'm starting to worry that I have missed something.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm just caught up enough on work that I'm starting to worry that I have missed something.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So, the theft at the Louvre reminds me so much about the theft of Madame du Barry's jewelry, about which I wrote my MA thesis. I am devastated as an historian, but fascinated even still.
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So, the theft at the Louvre reminds me so much about the theft of Madame du Barry's jewelry, about which I wrote my MA thesis. I am devastated as an historian, but fascinated even still.
LOL @ Canvas
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
LOL @ Canvas
In what is a terrible loss for history, what was left of the French Crown Jewels were stolen from the Louvre today.
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In what is a terrible loss for history, what was left of the French Crown Jewels were stolen from the Louvre today.
Work got me a new desktop and two new monitors for my office. This is a game changer. The old computer barely worked.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Work got me a new desktop and two new monitors for my office. This is a game changer. The old computer barely worked.
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I (we all) have been recording lectures since COVID started a few moons back, but I still get anxiety about recording my lectures before each one, and I don't know if this is just normal butterflies or some other unknown fear (hearing my own voice maybe?)?
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October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I (we all) have been recording lectures since COVID started a few moons back, but I still get anxiety about recording my lectures before each one, and I don't know if this is just normal butterflies or some other unknown fear (hearing my own voice maybe?)?
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Just taking a moment to acknowledge the administrative staff in my Division at my college. They continually work their asses off, with a smile the whole time. AND, today they made me fresh coffee because I told them I was struggling. Sometimes it takes a village, y'all.
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Just taking a moment to acknowledge the administrative staff in my Division at my college. They continually work their asses off, with a smile the whole time. AND, today they made me fresh coffee because I told them I was struggling. Sometimes it takes a village, y'all.
I submitted my proposal for the SFHS conference in Philadelphia. If accepted, my paper will use sources from the Catalan National Archives and French Diplomatic Archives to investigate Spanish notions of asylum during the French Revolution, particularly concerning the émigrés.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I submitted my proposal for the SFHS conference in Philadelphia. If accepted, my paper will use sources from the Catalan National Archives and French Diplomatic Archives to investigate Spanish notions of asylum during the French Revolution, particularly concerning the émigrés.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Contract date is tomorrow. I'm probably already behind. But, I'm terribly excited for another semester doing what I love. It's still wild to me that people pay money to hear me talk about things that fascinate me.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Contract date is tomorrow. I'm probably already behind. But, I'm terribly excited for another semester doing what I love. It's still wild to me that people pay money to hear me talk about things that fascinate me.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I love talking about the French Revolution, émigrés, social networks, migration, the Franco-Spanish borderlands, family, Catalan identity, and even Madame du Barry! Invite me to come share my passion and research with your students again this semester.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I love talking about the French Revolution, émigrés, social networks, migration, the Franco-Spanish borderlands, family, Catalan identity, and even Madame du Barry! Invite me to come share my passion and research with your students again this semester.
#tenuretrack
#invitedlectures
#cvbuilding
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Have a bunch of work to do, so of course I updated my LinkedIn of the first time in over a decade.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Have a bunch of work to do, so of course I updated my LinkedIn of the first time in over a decade.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM