Craig Perry
@caperry.bsky.social
Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
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Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
press.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
press.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
Forms of (Un)Freedom: Emancipation and Post-Slavery in the Red Sea Region
The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Over the past two decades, scholars have shown that the forced migration of enslaved people played a crucial role...
www.zmo.de
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
Forms of (Un)Freedom: Emancipation and Post-Slavery in the Red Sea Region
The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Over the past two decades, scholars have shown that the forced migration of enslaved people played a crucial role...
www.zmo.de
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
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" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abundant gifts as an author, her exhaustive research, and elegant writing elevate her book above its subject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.
www.jewishbookcouncil.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abundant gifts as an author, her exhaustive research, and elegant writing elevate her book above its subject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
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👉 NEW AND OPEN ACCESS
The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵)
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September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵)
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
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Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
www.thecrimson.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
www.cambridge.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
New open access volume on slavery in Ethiopian Studies with link to download: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Slavery_and_...
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopian Studies
Buch | Harrassowitz Verlag
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New open access volume on slavery in Ethiopian Studies with link to download: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Slavery_and_...
This is excellent research by Claire Dillon and great reading. A fine example of medievalism and modern colonialism between Cefalú, Sicily; Rome; and Mogadishu online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...
Transforming Cefalù in Mogadishu: The Arabo-Normanna Cathedral of Italian Somalia and the Façade of “Peaceful Conquest”
Abstract. The Cathedral of Mogadishu now stands in ruins as a shell of Italian colonial ambition in Somalia. Built largely from 1925 to 1928, its peculiar design presents an unusual case study among t...
online.ucpress.edu
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is excellent research by Claire Dillon and great reading. A fine example of medievalism and modern colonialism between Cefalú, Sicily; Rome; and Mogadishu online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...
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If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
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My copies of “Tradecraft”, the collection of essays by people who helped John le Carré research his novels, has arrived. Contains one chapter about the week Jason Stearns and I spent with the author in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My copies of “Tradecraft”, the collection of essays by people who helped John le Carré research his novels, has arrived. Contains one chapter about the week Jason Stearns and I spent with the author in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fielded a question about how representative Bomma and Abraham Ibn Yijū (enslaved man and slave owner in Gosh’s In an Antique Land) we’re in the wider culture of slavery. Short responses below.
It’s representative of one type of relationship—one between men. Enslaved and free men could also clash, with the enslaved man being flogged in the case I open the book with. My book focuses mainly on enslaved women and their fortunes varied widely. Most did not have the latitude that Bomma did.
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fielded a question about how representative Bomma and Abraham Ibn Yijū (enslaved man and slave owner in Gosh’s In an Antique Land) we’re in the wider culture of slavery. Short responses below.
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JEWISH STUDIES VISITING POSITION!
Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations
www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...
Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations
www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...
Scholarship - Center for Christian-Jewish Learning - Boston College
www.bc.edu
September 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
JEWISH STUDIES VISITING POSITION!
Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations
www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...
Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations
www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...
If you need beautiful maps for a project (or eel knowledge) I know a guy…
Fun news! I drew the maps for Craig's forthcoming book, and I'm really looking forward to reading it. It looks really fascinating!
Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class.
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
September 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you need beautiful maps for a project (or eel knowledge) I know a guy…
Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class.
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
September 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class.
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery
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There absolutely are people out there who would claim this. There are people who have turned "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" into "All antisemitism is justified in the name of anti-Zionism."
if criticism of Leo Frank trutherism is “liberal Zionist tone policing”, she may as well claim that it’s “liberal Zionist tone policing” to object to antisemitic claims that Jews murdered the 2-year-old Simon of Trent to use his blood in religious rituals in the 1400s.
August 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There absolutely are people out there who would claim this. There are people who have turned "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" into "All antisemitism is justified in the name of anti-Zionism."
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I hope everyone on the "left" defending Leo Frank trutherism knows that one of the most high-profile figures associated with this particular antisemitic conspiracism is a deputy Pentagon press secretary for the Trump administration: www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-penta...
Deputy Pentagon press secretary wrote antisemitic posts about Leo Frank
Kingsley Wilson shared conspiracy theories about Jewish victim of notorious 1915 lynching; has expressed support for prominent antisemite Kanye West and far-right German AfD party
www.timesofisrael.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I hope everyone on the "left" defending Leo Frank trutherism knows that one of the most high-profile figures associated with this particular antisemitic conspiracism is a deputy Pentagon press secretary for the Trump administration: www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-penta...
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@religiondispatches.org is a publication of @praeyesright.bsky.social. Ya’ll, your writer is pushing racist conspiracy theories of the kind that inspire deadly violence. Is your silence consent, or because you condone this speech?
August 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
@religiondispatches.org is a publication of @praeyesright.bsky.social. Ya’ll, your writer is pushing racist conspiracy theories of the kind that inspire deadly violence. Is your silence consent, or because you condone this speech?
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If @religiondispatches.org could come collect its writer that would be elite.
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If @religiondispatches.org could come collect its writer that would be elite.
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#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.