Elizabeth Cross
@ecrosshistory.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @Georgetown @GUHistory @CASGeorgetown
Author of COMPANY POLITICS, @OUPHistory 2023 : http://bit.ly/3wqKVgp
Author of COMPANY POLITICS, @OUPHistory 2023 : http://bit.ly/3wqKVgp
French history hivemind: are there any good secondary sources IN ENGLISH about the earliest years of French colonization in Saint-Christophe, Guadeloupe, Martinique? (i.e. the 1620s and 1630s). Asking for an Americanist colleague. Everything I know is in French. Merci d'avance!
June 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
French history hivemind: are there any good secondary sources IN ENGLISH about the earliest years of French colonization in Saint-Christophe, Guadeloupe, Martinique? (i.e. the 1620s and 1630s). Asking for an Americanist colleague. Everything I know is in French. Merci d'avance!
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Day 98: Among the highlights of my day has been reading the fantastic new H-France forum on @ecrosshistory.bsky.social's "Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era"! Bravo to Junko Takeda for bringing together this wonderful group of scholars 👏
HFrance Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France
h-france.net
April 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Day 98: Among the highlights of my day has been reading the fantastic new H-France forum on @ecrosshistory.bsky.social's "Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era"! Bravo to Junko Takeda for bringing together this wonderful group of scholars 👏
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More reasons to join the @aaup.bsky.social . Any chapter that increases its membership by 20% in a year gets some money back to help that local chapter. Support your university's chapter. Create one if you need to. No time like right now. #academicsky #highered #edusky #AAUP #Harvard
Harvard's AAUP chapter (of which I am a proud member) is suing the Trump administration (along with other organizations) over the "policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism."
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
knightcolumbia.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
More reasons to join the @aaup.bsky.social . Any chapter that increases its membership by 20% in a year gets some money back to help that local chapter. Support your university's chapter. Create one if you need to. No time like right now. #academicsky #highered #edusky #AAUP #Harvard
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks. 🗃️
New History Job Posted Today: Assistant Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts,
Job Description
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-system appointment expected to start on September 1, 2025, at the level of Assistant Professor in the History…
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November 12, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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One more! We are also hiring a tenure-line asst or assoc prof in African American history! Come be my colleague at Georgetown!
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September 20, 2024 at 12:43 PM
One more! We are also hiring a tenure-line asst or assoc prof in African American history! Come be my colleague at Georgetown!
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Georgetown is also hiring a 3 year Assistant Teaching Professor in Atlantic History, with a preference for specialization in Brazil or the Caribbean. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! @womenknowhistory.bsky.social Contact me with any Qs!
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September 19, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Georgetown is also hiring a 3 year Assistant Teaching Professor in Atlantic History, with a preference for specialization in Brazil or the Caribbean. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! @womenknowhistory.bsky.social Contact me with any Qs!
apply.interfolio.com/154944.
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My department is hiring a TT historian of China pre-1800. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
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September 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
My department is hiring a TT historian of China pre-1800. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
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Everyone in the humanities needs to submit feedback to the
NEH on their new programming and grant initiatives. We've lost so many important programs in recent years, and there are so many urgent funding needs in our disciplines----for onsite dissertation research... (1/2)
NEH on their new programming and grant initiatives. We've lost so many important programs in recent years, and there are so many urgent funding needs in our disciplines----for onsite dissertation research... (1/2)
November 28, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Everyone in the humanities needs to submit feedback to the
NEH on their new programming and grant initiatives. We've lost so many important programs in recent years, and there are so many urgent funding needs in our disciplines----for onsite dissertation research... (1/2)
NEH on their new programming and grant initiatives. We've lost so many important programs in recent years, and there are so many urgent funding needs in our disciplines----for onsite dissertation research... (1/2)
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If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
October 11, 2023 at 5:28 PM
If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
October 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM
More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
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naptime is wasted on small children who do not adequately appreciate it
September 30, 2023 at 10:04 PM
naptime is wasted on small children who do not adequately appreciate it
I wrote about my new book and the need to put French business histories back into the history of early modern capitalism for the OUP Blog -- check it out at the link below!
blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-fr...
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A free market? The French East India Company and modern capitalism
“Paris is the place to make money, & England is the country to enjoy it.” With what we think we know about capitalism in England and France circa 1790, it is hard to fathom how exactly, a banker i...
blog.oup.com
September 18, 2023 at 3:21 PM
I wrote about my new book and the need to put French business histories back into the history of early modern capitalism for the OUP Blog -- check it out at the link below!
blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-fr...
blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-fr...
Come see me at UMD History next week!
September 13, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Come see me at UMD History next week!