Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt.bsky.social
Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️
August 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️
Studying the sixteenth century is fun... 😭 🗃️
August 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Studying the sixteenth century is fun... 😭 🗃️
My Far Side calendar struck a little close to the bone today... 😂
August 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My Far Side calendar struck a little close to the bone today... 😂
This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
February 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!
Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!
January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A wonderful distraction from the world literally burning to the ground: page proofs for The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!
Coming to bookstores (if those still exist) in September!
As the piece about Neil Gaiman makes its rounds, I am reminded of this book. The care, diligence, and awareness in JWS's writing about power and abuse is extremely relevant right now, especially for thinking about what media outrage means for victims and how/why we tell and retell their stories.
January 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As the piece about Neil Gaiman makes its rounds, I am reminded of this book. The care, diligence, and awareness in JWS's writing about power and abuse is extremely relevant right now, especially for thinking about what media outrage means for victims and how/why we tell and retell their stories.
If you're around the AHA this weekend, come join this conversation about 17th-century slavery, resistance, and community!
December 31, 2024 at 7:48 PM
If you're around the AHA this weekend, come join this conversation about 17th-century slavery, resistance, and community!
Look what arrived today! Can't wait to read this! @profjennyshaw.bsky.social 🗃️
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Look what arrived today! Can't wait to read this! @profjennyshaw.bsky.social 🗃️
Oh my!!! Well, that's one way to Hispanize the name Sir John Watling! 🤭
April 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Oh my!!! Well, that's one way to Hispanize the name Sir John Watling! 🤭
17th-century maritime life at its finest. 🤢
April 1, 2024 at 6:29 PM
17th-century maritime life at its finest. 🤢
I am very much looking forward to this book! Coming in September!
February 7, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I am very much looking forward to this book! Coming in September!
I'm excited participate in this wonderful program in February.
Also, check out the fellowships associated with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies! www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fel...
Also, check out the fellowships associated with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies! www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fel...
January 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I'm excited participate in this wonderful program in February.
Also, check out the fellowships associated with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies! www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fel...
Also, check out the fellowships associated with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies! www.1718.ucla.edu/research/fel...
The joy of moving back into the second half of the 17th century after spending the past year reading documents from the 16th is indescribable.
It's so clear! I can read it! My eyes don't hurt!
It's so clear! I can read it! My eyes don't hurt!
January 16, 2024 at 1:32 PM
The joy of moving back into the second half of the 17th century after spending the past year reading documents from the 16th is indescribable.
It's so clear! I can read it! My eyes don't hurt!
It's so clear! I can read it! My eyes don't hurt!
Chapters compiled and editing done. This thing is going to outside readers today!!!
Fingers crossed that the peer review process is productive and not too brutal... 🗃️
Fingers crossed that the peer review process is productive and not too brutal... 🗃️
December 15, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Chapters compiled and editing done. This thing is going to outside readers today!!!
Fingers crossed that the peer review process is productive and not too brutal... 🗃️
Fingers crossed that the peer review process is productive and not too brutal... 🗃️
Every semester seems to get busier and busier, but getting to the finish line on this one is going to be a challenge...
November 27, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Every semester seems to get busier and busier, but getting to the finish line on this one is going to be a challenge...
It's such a joy to review great books! Check out my review of Joseph Clark's new book and then go check out this great book!
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
November 9, 2023 at 2:34 PM
It's such a joy to review great books! Check out my review of Joseph Clark's new book and then go check out this great book!
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Also an accurate way to describe writing a book for the first time: 🗃️
October 24, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Also an accurate way to describe writing a book for the first time: 🗃️
While the conversation this book engages in is super relevant and important for historians, it also makes me increasingly grateful to be a scholar of the 17th century:
www.ianmilligan.ca/publication/...
www.ianmilligan.ca/publication/...
October 19, 2023 at 4:22 PM
While the conversation this book engages in is super relevant and important for historians, it also makes me increasingly grateful to be a scholar of the 17th century:
www.ianmilligan.ca/publication/...
www.ianmilligan.ca/publication/...
Anyone have suggestions for readings that take up McKittrick's critique of the concreteness of geography in terms of Indigenous dispossession and resistance?
Also, this book is so ridiculously smart and provocative. 🗃️
Also, this book is so ridiculously smart and provocative. 🗃️
October 9, 2023 at 2:43 PM
Anyone have suggestions for readings that take up McKittrick's critique of the concreteness of geography in terms of Indigenous dispossession and resistance?
Also, this book is so ridiculously smart and provocative. 🗃️
Also, this book is so ridiculously smart and provocative. 🗃️
Went on a dark academia fiction kick for my night time reading and came across this gem. Witty, dark, and unexpected.
On a related note, probably not the best book for relaxing evening reading, but so worth the exhaustion today!
On a related note, probably not the best book for relaxing evening reading, but so worth the exhaustion today!
October 4, 2023 at 12:34 PM
Went on a dark academia fiction kick for my night time reading and came across this gem. Witty, dark, and unexpected.
On a related note, probably not the best book for relaxing evening reading, but so worth the exhaustion today!
On a related note, probably not the best book for relaxing evening reading, but so worth the exhaustion today!
Super niche comment, but my whole book is like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game except its not Kevin Bacon, it's Walter Raleigh.
I just can't get away from this dude. 🗃️
I just can't get away from this dude. 🗃️
October 2, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Super niche comment, but my whole book is like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game except its not Kevin Bacon, it's Walter Raleigh.
I just can't get away from this dude. 🗃️
I just can't get away from this dude. 🗃️