Elliott Sturtevant
@elliotts.bsky.social
Historian of architecture, business, and the environment | Assist. Prof. of Architecture | Working in Miami, living in Toronto
"It seems strange to me that many of my liberal friends and students have never travelled to the South... They appear to have much more interest in places like China or Japan, and ... know more about these places than they do about, say, MS or AR." www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...
Exposure Therapy
What could bridge the gap between the culture of elite higher education and red America? One possibility involves extending the logic of the Fulbright program.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"It seems strange to me that many of my liberal friends and students have never travelled to the South... They appear to have much more interest in places like China or Japan, and ... know more about these places than they do about, say, MS or AR." www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...
This episode of Know Your Enemy with Kate Wagner is fantastic! It’s also a stark reminder of the depressed state of architectural culture and architectural criticism, and how much better off we’d be (I think!) if there were more of it. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tru...
Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser] | Know Your Enemy
Matt and Sam talk to McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner about Trump's White House ballroom.
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This episode of Know Your Enemy with Kate Wagner is fantastic! It’s also a stark reminder of the depressed state of architectural culture and architectural criticism, and how much better off we’d be (I think!) if there were more of it. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tru...
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
"The progressive economic message is often something along the lines of 'there’s enough wealth to go around.' But a more winning message, particularly for Latinos who aspire to social mobility, might be: 'there’s enough work to go around.'" dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...
¿Por Qué MAGA? - Dissent Magazine
Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not.
dissentmagazine.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"The progressive economic message is often something along the lines of 'there’s enough wealth to go around.' But a more winning message, particularly for Latinos who aspire to social mobility, might be: 'there’s enough work to go around.'" dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...
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I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.
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In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
"DeSantis boasted that he was acting in the name of free choice: students would no longer be required to take sociology. But students have never been required to take sociology. What he did was constrain the freedom to choose sociology..." So much for the "marketplace of ideas."
Commentary: Florida’s education commissioner just fired free thought
Anastasios Kamoutsas’ removal of a sociology professor from a statewide committee is only the latest government attempt to limit the scope of education.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"DeSantis boasted that he was acting in the name of free choice: students would no longer be required to take sociology. But students have never been required to take sociology. What he did was constrain the freedom to choose sociology..." So much for the "marketplace of ideas."
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Shocked to learn that Alison Isenberg has died, far too young. What a terrible loss. A lovely person and an outstanding urban historian. I first met her when we were graduate students at Penn, around 35 years ago. My condolences to her family
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Shocked to learn that Alison Isenberg has died, far too young. What a terrible loss. A lovely person and an outstanding urban historian. I first met her when we were graduate students at Penn, around 35 years ago. My condolences to her family
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Taking part in this later this week!
Registration is live for our fall conference "The Power of Energy," highlighting cutting edge work in energy history.
Panels include:
Energy Sovereignties
Energy Flows, Information Flows
Coerced Labor
Energy in the Home Beyond the Domestic
Find more info here: www.hagley.org/research/con...
Panels include:
Energy Sovereignties
Energy Flows, Information Flows
Coerced Labor
Energy in the Home Beyond the Domestic
Find more info here: www.hagley.org/research/con...
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Taking part in this later this week!
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The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
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How are natural and waste materials valued, produced and transformed? What lessons can architects learn from history? Some of the questions that will be explored at tomorrow's event 👇co-hosted by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Alistair Cartwright & @elliotts.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...
Values of Waste
This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How are natural and waste materials valued, produced and transformed? What lessons can architects learn from history? Some of the questions that will be explored at tomorrow's event 👇co-hosted by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Alistair Cartwright & @elliotts.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
"The agency also had its hands in a 1964 coup in Brazil, the death of Che Guevara and other machinations in Bolivia, a 1973 coup in Chile, and the contra fight against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s." Left for the last graf. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"The agency also had its hands in a 1964 coup in Brazil, the death of Che Guevara and other machinations in Bolivia, a 1973 coup in Chile, and the contra fight against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s." Left for the last graf. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
"Values of Waste," taking place at the University of Liverpool this Friday! @leverhulme.ac.uk
I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...
Values of Waste
This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Values of Waste," taking place at the University of Liverpool this Friday! @leverhulme.ac.uk
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I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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I'm giving a talk on the architecture of US empire in two weeks. This couldn't have come at a better time!
Donald Trump appears ready to leave yet another mark on the nation’s capital with a triumphal arch that could rival the Lincoln Memorial in scale.
Trump Plotting Even Bigger Architectural Project for D.C.
The president appears to be planning a massive triumphal arch that could rival the Lincoln Memorial in scale.
trib.al
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm giving a talk on the architecture of US empire in two weeks. This couldn't have come at a better time!
A helpful read for thinking about the need to push back against false dichotomies—maker/taker, builder/critic, innovator/regulator—that are currently being used to further marginalize the humanities.
Accdg to Bratton, "the intellectuals + artists of this critique industry have seized the public's imagination with its scrutiny of AI, which permeate universities and the arts. Such questions stand in the way of progress." Glad Eryk articulated critiques *within media studies* about StackTheory™️
Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?
I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...
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October 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A helpful read for thinking about the need to push back against false dichotomies—maker/taker, builder/critic, innovator/regulator—that are currently being used to further marginalize the humanities.
I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...
Values of Waste
This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...
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An excellent line-up featuring two very lovely grad school classmates, including @elliotts.bsky.social!
Energy historians: the Hagley Museum and Library is hosting "The Power of Energy" conference on October 30-31. It's an online conference and registration is now open. This will be a great chance to hear some exciting new research. Hope to see you there (virtually)
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2025 Fall Conference | Hagley
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September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
An excellent line-up featuring two very lovely grad school classmates, including @elliotts.bsky.social!
Little appreciation for my Stargate references in class today. "You know, Abydos, where they first travelled to after entering the Stargate?"
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Little appreciation for my Stargate references in class today. "You know, Abydos, where they first travelled to after entering the Stargate?"
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"Trump has been signaling for a decade or so that political violence committed by his supporters is acceptable and might even be rewarded...Trump and...his acolytes frame such conduct not as violence, but as legitimate...self-defense;...they portray themselves as perpetual victims."
New column:
New column:
Violence As Policy in Trump’s America
Jan-Werner Mueller argues that the murder of Charlie Kirk has highlighted the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary US politics.
www.project-syndicate.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Trump has been signaling for a decade or so that political violence committed by his supporters is acceptable and might even be rewarded...Trump and...his acolytes frame such conduct not as violence, but as legitimate...self-defense;...they portray themselves as perpetual victims."
New column:
New column:
I highly recommend both!
.... well
i wrote one book about weird right wing internet shit
and one book about conservative american religion
i wrote one book about weird right wing internet shit
and one book about conservative american religion
Every outlet covering any of this stuff needs to have somebody who actually knows conservative American religion and somebody who actually knows weird conservative internet shit. See in here how they not just overlap, but also collide
September 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I highly recommend both!