Meghan Townes
@meghantownes.bsky.social
Recovering registrar. American Studies PhD candidate @ BU. Politics and art practices in post-Civil War Richmond. Send tea, cats, and gray sweaters. She/her/hers
Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music
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October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Life lately: www.bu.edu/americanstud...
Meghan Townes successfully defends dissertation | American Studies
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September 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Congratulations to Meghan Townes, recipient of the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Ceramics Fellowship at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem! @meghantownes.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Congratulations to Meghan Townes, recipient of the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Ceramics Fellowship at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem! @meghantownes.bsky.social
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From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late."
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Inoculate Before It Is Too Late: Lessons Drawn from Charles Willson Peale’s Rachel Weeping
Age of Revolutions is happy to present its “Art of Revolution” series. You can read through the entire series here as they become available. By Andrew Wehrman For portrait painters like…
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April 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late."
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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Boston University American Studies program (formerly American and New England Studies). Happy to be here! Visit our site for more info: www.bu.edu/amnesp/
American & New England Studies Program
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April 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Boston University American Studies program (formerly American and New England Studies). Happy to be here! Visit our site for more info: www.bu.edu/amnesp/
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For our next issue, Ampersand solicits papers on rupturing, deconstructing, and recreating boundaries of assumed forms within American Studies. We encourage a variety of topics and formats and prioritize the work of emerging scholars. Find out more and submit by 4/1 at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...
March 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For our next issue, Ampersand solicits papers on rupturing, deconstructing, and recreating boundaries of assumed forms within American Studies. We encourage a variety of topics and formats and prioritize the work of emerging scholars. Find out more and submit by 4/1 at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...
One of the few signatures I've come across in research that made me squeak a little
February 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
One of the few signatures I've come across in research that made me squeak a little
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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
February 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
Would I illegally import Swedish Fish? Absolutely not. Cheetos, on the other hand...
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Illegal imported sweets ‘flooding UK high streets’, councils say
Social media driving demand for US products containing banned additives linked to cancer and behaviour issues
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February 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Would I illegally import Swedish Fish? Absolutely not. Cheetos, on the other hand...
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An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
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February 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is a great way to support kids and get your cookie fix: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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February 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is a great way to support kids and get your cookie fix: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans...
It is cookie season, which necessitates a visit to this perennially useful article from Vox (Little Brownie is clearly superior, but I sadly live in ABC land): www.vox.com/2015/3/4/814...
Are Samoas and Caramel deLites really the same cookie?
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It is cookie season, which necessitates a visit to this perennially useful article from Vox (Little Brownie is clearly superior, but I sadly live in ABC land): www.vox.com/2015/3/4/814...
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
What you need to understand about the Boston suburbs is that every neighborhood has a dad who will happily clear all the sidewalks with his Toro snowblower the morning after a storm, dressed in nothing more than sweatpants and a high school wrestling team hoodie.
January 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What you need to understand about the Boston suburbs is that every neighborhood has a dad who will happily clear all the sidewalks with his Toro snowblower the morning after a storm, dressed in nothing more than sweatpants and a high school wrestling team hoodie.
Many years ago in NoVA, I passed a burgundy van absolutely covered in Washington football stickers, driven by a little old lady in a veil, with a license plate that read “Nun4You.” All I can say is, Sister, I hope you’re watching this game
January 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Many years ago in NoVA, I passed a burgundy van absolutely covered in Washington football stickers, driven by a little old lady in a veil, with a license plate that read “Nun4You.” All I can say is, Sister, I hope you’re watching this game
Missed this when it was published, but enjoy this brief snapshot from my summer. wilder.vcu.edu/news-and-eve...
NEH Story - L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs - Virginia Commonwealth University
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December 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Missed this when it was published, but enjoy this brief snapshot from my summer. wilder.vcu.edu/news-and-eve...
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Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: @meghantownes.bsky.social juggles the scholarly and the personal in the story of how one small-town Alabama high school band came to march for JFK’s inauguration, largely due to the noisy organizing of Townes’s grandmother. Read it now at the link in bio!
December 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: @meghantownes.bsky.social juggles the scholarly and the personal in the story of how one small-town Alabama high school band came to march for JFK’s inauguration, largely due to the noisy organizing of Townes’s grandmother. Read it now at the link in bio!
Follow my program’s online journal, which just joined Bluesky! A new issue is out now (including a piece by me)
We proudly share our newest issue, “Disruption as Resistance: Labor, Noise, and Refusal." These seven pieces represent a diverse set of voices and scholarly methods examining unionization, activism, and noise-making. Read it at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...
December 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Follow my program’s online journal, which just joined Bluesky! A new issue is out now (including a piece by me)