Clark Alejandrino
clalejandrino.bsky.social
Clark Alejandrino
@clalejandrino.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese and Environmental History, Trinity College, Hartford CT

China, East Asia, Pacific World, Climate, Animals
Tenured!
Spring celebrations! 🌸

Congratulations to 10 outstanding faculty members who've earned promotions & tenure this season. Their dedication to research, teaching & service exemplifies excellence in higher education. See the full list: www.trincoll.edu/news/trinity...
May 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Carl warned us 30 years ago:
April 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Now here's a cool #ClimHist visualization, nice work @hausfath.bsky.social and @thirstygecko.bsky.social!
April 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵
‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action
Nature Climate Change - The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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An exciting edited volume on visual representations of plants and animals in early modern China and Japan has just been published with Amsterdam University Press. Includes studies of frogs, elephants, camels, and fish! 🐘🐫🐸🐟
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plant...
www.aup.nl
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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How cool is this: A whole cart full of my books!
#millscollege #northeasternuniversity
March 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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In the third episode of The Climate Chronicles' first season, Becoming Human, Professor @dagomardegroot.bsky.social touches on everything from Noah’s Flood to nuclear submarines in telling the strange, three-century-long history of the discovery of the Ice Age. 🧪

Listen here: buff.ly/Uw4YPel
March 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I just signed the book contract for _Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China's Mao Era_, a collection of fascinating essays by a great group of scholars that will be published by University of Washington Press next year.
February 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM