🚨The @appliedanthro.bsky.social First Book Proposal Prize in Critical Disaster Studies is open for donations! Help us support emerging scholars writing about disasters & crises.

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📣 The Haitian Studies Association is now accepting nominations for the 2025 HSA Book Prize! 🏆

Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!

Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky

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The 30th Annual Black Women's Conference Presents

WE ARE THE CULTURE:
A Symposium on Black Girls & Girlhood

📆: March 7 & 8, 2025
📍: The Campbell House, Lexington, KY
forms.as.uky.edu/2025-bwc-reg...

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."

-Zora Neale Hurston

🌍 I am in Azerbaijan, attending #COP29. As an anthropologist in disaster studies, being surrounded by policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from across the globe is inspiring and energizing. I’m excited about my panel on Thursday! #ClimateAction #CulturalHeritage #ClimateAdaptation

Heya! I’m new to Bluesky. 👋🏾

A little bit about me: I’m a cultural anthropologist and Black feminist scholar in disaster studies. My work is in the Caribbean (specifically Haiti). I’m an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.

And here is a picture of my two dogs, Nova and Luna.