jonathansheehan.bsky.social
@jonathansheehan.bsky.social
Early modern historian, UC Berkeley, all things sacrifice, anthropology and politics, banjo.
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Indiana University Bloomington has a very long tradition of excellence in the Humanities and non-applied/pure/foundational sciences Law passed without debate is on track to close many of these degree programs
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…
wfiunews.wordpress.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thanks, Sam, for the shout out!
June 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A (dramatic) book cover! Next step, finish the copyediting.
May 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So this is finally in the pipeline… months from now but pleased nonetheless. Cover TK.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
On the Altar
How Christianity both abolished and absorbed sacrifice
press.princeton.edu
March 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Bay area folks -- Mark Peterson talking about his new constitution book at the UC Berkeley History Department.
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Je remets ici un lien vers le remarquable projet en ligne sur les herbiers de Jean-Jacques Rousseau :

lesherbiersderousseau.org
Les Herbiers de Rousseau
Herbier virtuel présentant près de 4000 spécimens répartis en 14 collections numérisées des herbiers de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, réalisé par une équipe de botanistes, historiens des sciences et chercheu...
lesherbiersderousseau.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...
Koch Junior Fellowship in History
history.web.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM