Austin J. Clements
@clementsaustinj.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | Writing a dissertation on the creation of the American far right | ASU West alum
is $14.59 too high a price for meatballs made from the blend of your ancestors? Palo Alto Instacart says no
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
is $14.59 too high a price for meatballs made from the blend of your ancestors? Palo Alto Instacart says no
reading a book from 1929 claiming to expose a sinister conspiracy of radical professors who are using communist and socialist propaganda to advance an Illuminati plot dating back centuries and wondering how it is that I’ve been in academia for years and no one has looped me in yet
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
reading a book from 1929 claiming to expose a sinister conspiracy of radical professors who are using communist and socialist propaganda to advance an Illuminati plot dating back centuries and wondering how it is that I’ve been in academia for years and no one has looped me in yet
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Joan Scott reflects on academic inquiry, "viewpoint diversity" and its weaponization: academeblog.org/2025/10/15/o...
On Viewpoint Diversity
BY JOAN W. SCOTT This essay is adapted from the author’s contribution to a forum the Johns Hopkins University AAUP chapter organized to discuss Lisa Siraganian’s Academe article “Seven Theses Again…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Joan Scott reflects on academic inquiry, "viewpoint diversity" and its weaponization: academeblog.org/2025/10/15/o...
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Congratulations to my Princeton Religion colleague, Leora Batnitzky, and co-editors on this publication (that features a chapter by Princeton Religion graduate alum @rachelbgross.bsky.social).
New book — The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies, ed. by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Congratulations to my Princeton Religion colleague, Leora Batnitzky, and co-editors on this publication (that features a chapter by Princeton Religion graduate alum @rachelbgross.bsky.social).
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September 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Here are the ads! Please share them widely: careers.insidehighered.com/job/3407668/... (African history); careers.insidehighered.com/job/3407671/... (US since 1865) 🗃️
a few years after my book comes out I’m going to release an “extended” edition with suggestive phrasings about its being “raw” and “uncensored” and it’ll just be all the stuff that got edited out to fit the word limit
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
a few years after my book comes out I’m going to release an “extended” edition with suggestive phrasings about its being “raw” and “uncensored” and it’ll just be all the stuff that got edited out to fit the word limit
Another dissertation chapter drafted and sent to my advisor! One more to go! Too mentally spent to think of a joke!
August 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Another dissertation chapter drafted and sent to my advisor! One more to go! Too mentally spent to think of a joke!
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Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.
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Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.
newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...
newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...
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Up on First View!
"The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre. The piece examines how, after WWII, as they faced prison riots and rising concerns about juvenile delinquency, many states set up penal forestry camps.
"The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre. The piece examines how, after WWII, as they faced prison riots and rising concerns about juvenile delinquency, many states set up penal forestry camps.
July 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Up on First View!
"The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre. The piece examines how, after WWII, as they faced prison riots and rising concerns about juvenile delinquency, many states set up penal forestry camps.
"The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre. The piece examines how, after WWII, as they faced prison riots and rising concerns about juvenile delinquency, many states set up penal forestry camps.
I see there is no “major problems in american intellectual history” textbook as part of the “major problems” series I take it that means we’ve solved them all?
July 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I see there is no “major problems in american intellectual history” textbook as part of the “major problems” series I take it that means we’ve solved them all?
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My article on the 1st gen of Japanese Am voters is finally out! It explores how young JAs responded to anti-Asian racism as they proudly asserted their voting rights as citizens, & shows how the WW2 incarceration suppressed their diverse political culture. Check it out: doi.org/10.1525/phr....
Left or Right, Loyal or DisloyalIdeology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics
This article examines the first cohort of Japanese American voters in California in the interwar years, in order to explore the construction of racialized parameters on Japanese American political age...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My article on the 1st gen of Japanese Am voters is finally out! It explores how young JAs responded to anti-Asian racism as they proudly asserted their voting rights as citizens, & shows how the WW2 incarceration suppressed their diverse political culture. Check it out: doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.
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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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researching what I research I constantly have moments of “eww does the Bible really say that?” and every time it does indeed say that
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
researching what I research I constantly have moments of “eww does the Bible really say that?” and every time it does indeed say that
as an electric bassist completing a phd in history I feel like this book was written for me
June 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
as an electric bassist completing a phd in history I feel like this book was written for me
doing historiography again
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
doing historiography again
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War. Peace. Food. Drinks. People. Labor. Politics. And more! Check out the Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast, been around for a few years, doing some amazing stuff & now with new hosts! @shgape.bsky.social @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @historians.org 🗃️ shows.acast.com/gildedageand...
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
with Michael Patrick Cullinane
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June 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
War. Peace. Food. Drinks. People. Labor. Politics. And more! Check out the Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast, been around for a few years, doing some amazing stuff & now with new hosts! @shgape.bsky.social @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @historians.org 🗃️ shows.acast.com/gildedageand...
dissertation chapter is 16,666 words which in addition to being too long is too on the nose
June 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
dissertation chapter is 16,666 words which in addition to being too long is too on the nose
my dad introduced me to the three stooges and I was so obsessed that in fifth grade I did an entire research project on them and drew a timeline covering their lives and careers from the birth of the horwitz brothers until curly joe died. I got this poster when I was baptized at age 8
June 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
my dad introduced me to the three stooges and I was so obsessed that in fifth grade I did an entire research project on them and drew a timeline covering their lives and careers from the birth of the horwitz brothers until curly joe died. I got this poster when I was baptized at age 8
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Congratulations to @chanheeheo.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation, “Thy Kin-dom Come: Imagining the First Christian Nation in the East,” today! 🎉
June 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Congratulations to @chanheeheo.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation, “Thy Kin-dom Come: Imagining the First Christian Nation in the East,” today! 🎉
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I was thrilled to review Sam Tanenhaus's epic "Buckley" for The Unpopulist. substack.com/home/post/p-...
William F. Buckley Cemented the Conservative Movement’s Preoccupation with the Liberal Enemy
He couldn’t define what conservatism was, just what it wasn’t
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June 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was thrilled to review Sam Tanenhaus's epic "Buckley" for The Unpopulist. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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It was a pleasure speaking with @palumboliu.bsky.social for his podcast "Speaking out of Place." Check it out here! speakingoutofplace.com/2025/05/25/g...
‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists, and Phobic Misogynists: A Conversation with Becca Lewis | Speaking Out OF Place
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May 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It was a pleasure speaking with @palumboliu.bsky.social for his podcast "Speaking out of Place." Check it out here! speakingoutofplace.com/2025/05/25/g...
Bedridden with a torn meniscus so I thought I’d take the opportunity to finally read EH Carr’s What Is History? and I think this is the first book I’ve read cover to cover since starting grad school
May 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Bedridden with a torn meniscus so I thought I’d take the opportunity to finally read EH Carr’s What Is History? and I think this is the first book I’ve read cover to cover since starting grad school
the fake oath was made famous in 1913 following a congressional campaign in which Thomas butler (father of another conspiracy theorist smedley butler who claimed there was a plot of fascist businessmen trying to oust FDR) claimed his Catholic opponent was in league with the KoC who swore on the oath
a favorite document among American nativists in the 1910s and 1920s was a bogus oath supposedly taken by Knights of Columbus promising to mutilate and murder Protestants including women and infants while swearing sole allegiance to the pope and stockpiling weapons for the future crusade so lol
May 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
the fake oath was made famous in 1913 following a congressional campaign in which Thomas butler (father of another conspiracy theorist smedley butler who claimed there was a plot of fascist businessmen trying to oust FDR) claimed his Catholic opponent was in league with the KoC who swore on the oath
a favorite document among American nativists in the 1910s and 1920s was a bogus oath supposedly taken by Knights of Columbus promising to mutilate and murder Protestants including women and infants while swearing sole allegiance to the pope and stockpiling weapons for the future crusade so lol
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
a favorite document among American nativists in the 1910s and 1920s was a bogus oath supposedly taken by Knights of Columbus promising to mutilate and murder Protestants including women and infants while swearing sole allegiance to the pope and stockpiling weapons for the future crusade so lol