Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱
@rmostern.bsky.social
World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
Zohran holding his first press conference in front of the 1964 world's fair globe at Flushing Meadow Park is everything to me. I just did a spontaneous lesson about it in my History of Cartography class.
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Zohran holding his first press conference in front of the 1964 world's fair globe at Flushing Meadow Park is everything to me. I just did a spontaneous lesson about it in my History of Cartography class.
Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
July 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Friends who are members of the American Historical Association (or wish to join), please vote by July 15 for the slate that is committed to democratizing our profession and holding itself accountable to the membership during these perilous times.
May 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I began this semester supporting the eloquent and talented @elgendy95.bsky.social at@whcpitt.bsky.social for what would have been an amazing critical archive project. Instead, he has fled into exile. Please read his powerful story here, with rage and grief. www.instagram.com/p/DJJwpXfsoj...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I began this semester supporting the eloquent and talented @elgendy95.bsky.social at@whcpitt.bsky.social for what would have been an amazing critical archive project. Instead, he has fled into exile. Please read his powerful story here, with rage and grief. www.instagram.com/p/DJJwpXfsoj...
A sunny and empowering day at the #nationalhighereddayofaction with the Union of Pitt Faculty and AAUP Pittsburgh, with fierce and urgent speeches by colleagues, students, and Representative Summer Lee @summerlee.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A sunny and empowering day at the #nationalhighereddayofaction with the Union of Pitt Faculty and AAUP Pittsburgh, with fierce and urgent speeches by colleagues, students, and Representative Summer Lee @summerlee.bsky.social
Pittsburgh! Come to the Union of Pitt Faculty @steelworkers.bsky.social and AAUP Pitt @aaup.bsky.social rally next Thursday for the #nationaldayofactionforhighered. We have so many reasons to be in solidarity and community with one another right now.
April 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pittsburgh! Come to the Union of Pitt Faculty @steelworkers.bsky.social and AAUP Pitt @aaup.bsky.social rally next Thursday for the #nationaldayofactionforhighered. We have so many reasons to be in solidarity and community with one another right now.
I am delighted to report that the WHA @thewha.bsky.social Resolution Opposing Scholasticide in Gaza has passed with 83%of voters in favor!
February 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I am delighted to report that the WHA @thewha.bsky.social Resolution Opposing Scholasticide in Gaza has passed with 83%of voters in favor!
It's a timely week to be teaching this classic book about how colonizers impose unwelcome new place names on people in the service of their own power and interests.
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's a timely week to be teaching this classic book about how colonizers impose unwelcome new place names on people in the service of their own power and interests.
This is Lefebvre Production of Space week in my graduate Spatial History Methods seminar, and I want to give a boost to the excellent graphic that Eden Kinkaid @queergeog.bsky.social posted a couple of years ago over at the old place. It's so succinct and helpful!
January 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is Lefebvre Production of Space week in my graduate Spatial History Methods seminar, and I want to give a boost to the excellent graphic that Eden Kinkaid @queergeog.bsky.social posted a couple of years ago over at the old place. It's so succinct and helpful!
I found this note on the stairs into my office building just now. I was concerned, and also, like, yeah, that tracks. Then I realized it was yesterday! We live to carry on another day!
January 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I found this note on the stairs into my office building just now. I was concerned, and also, like, yeah, that tracks. Then I realized it was yesterday! We live to carry on another day!
The Pitt World History Center is holding a Global Justice Activism Intergenerational Roundtable and Pedagogy Workshop on Thursday. You should come! We will be hearing from so many smart people! calendar.pitt.edu/event/global...
November 11, 2024 at 8:42 PM
The Pitt World History Center is holding a Global Justice Activism Intergenerational Roundtable and Pedagogy Workshop on Thursday. You should come! We will be hearing from so many smart people! calendar.pitt.edu/event/global...