Roger Kittleson
@rogerkittleson.bsky.social
Historian of Brazil, race, space, futebol. Cook, cyclist, Arsenal and Brasil fanatic.
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This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party
August 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party
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From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
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***Job Opportunity in History***
Tenure-Track Position in Latin American Indigenous History & Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, Reed College
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Tenure-Track Position in Latin American Indigenous History & Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, Reed College
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Tenure-Track Position in Latin American Indigenous History & Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies in Portland, OR for Reed College
Exciting opportunity in Portland, OR for Reed College as a Tenure-Track Position in Latin America...
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July 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
***Job Opportunity in History***
Tenure-Track Position in Latin American Indigenous History & Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, Reed College
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careers.historians.org/jobs/2151612...
Tenure-Track Position in Latin American Indigenous History & Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, Reed College
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careers.historians.org/jobs/2151612...
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The Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for an open-ranked professorship whose focus will be in one or more of the following specializations: Liberation Theology; Latin American/ Latine Theology; Black Theology.
apply.interfolio.com/170877
apply.interfolio.com/170877
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July 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for an open-ranked professorship whose focus will be in one or more of the following specializations: Liberation Theology; Latin American/ Latine Theology; Black Theology.
apply.interfolio.com/170877
apply.interfolio.com/170877
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Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university (founded in 1831) in Connecticut and home to the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, the first academic center in the United States dedic...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
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Job Opportunity!
Middlebury College - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College
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Middlebury College - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College
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Middlebury College - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College | H-Net
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July 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Job Opportunity!
Middlebury College - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68873/m...
Middlebury College - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College
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New article alert!
The exploits of the ʿudhrī lovers Jamīl and Buthayna are well known, full of potential for romance and scandal and violence. This article asks how such celebrated stories read differently when read with an eye to Buthayna’s experiences instead of Jamīl’s performances
The exploits of the ʿudhrī lovers Jamīl and Buthayna are well known, full of potential for romance and scandal and violence. This article asks how such celebrated stories read differently when read with an eye to Buthayna’s experiences instead of Jamīl’s performances
July 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New article alert!
The exploits of the ʿudhrī lovers Jamīl and Buthayna are well known, full of potential for romance and scandal and violence. This article asks how such celebrated stories read differently when read with an eye to Buthayna’s experiences instead of Jamīl’s performances
The exploits of the ʿudhrī lovers Jamīl and Buthayna are well known, full of potential for romance and scandal and violence. This article asks how such celebrated stories read differently when read with an eye to Buthayna’s experiences instead of Jamīl’s performances
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Great thread:
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin.
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Great thread:
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Schadenlatinofreude -how scholars of Latin America feel when they see Europe and the US succumbing to economic and political pathologies that, for years, they’d been told were uniquely Latin American.
February 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Schadenlatinofreude -how scholars of Latin America feel when they see Europe and the US succumbing to economic and political pathologies that, for years, they’d been told were uniquely Latin American.
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The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.
February 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.
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This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least.
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
November 9, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least.
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
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Hei! Come and work here with us!
4-year, full time PhD in Latin American history.
Application deadline: Jan 12. Hurry up.
All details in link in first comment.
(pic from yesterday night. But you'll be working mostly indoors -:) You can see your future office, at the side of the bridge.)
4-year, full time PhD in Latin American history.
Application deadline: Jan 12. Hurry up.
All details in link in first comment.
(pic from yesterday night. But you'll be working mostly indoors -:) You can see your future office, at the side of the bridge.)
January 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hei! Come and work here with us!
4-year, full time PhD in Latin American history.
Application deadline: Jan 12. Hurry up.
All details in link in first comment.
(pic from yesterday night. But you'll be working mostly indoors -:) You can see your future office, at the side of the bridge.)
4-year, full time PhD in Latin American history.
Application deadline: Jan 12. Hurry up.
All details in link in first comment.
(pic from yesterday night. But you'll be working mostly indoors -:) You can see your future office, at the side of the bridge.)
Great post doc in Latin American and Latinx studies
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
December 17, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Great post doc in Latin American and Latinx studies
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"We have to revive the idea of solidarity, and this requires a revived class politics: not a politics that evades the racism and misogyny that pervades American life but one that confronts it directly."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
www.bostonreview.net
December 9, 2024 at 11:13 AM
"We have to revive the idea of solidarity, and this requires a revived class politics: not a politics that evades the racism and misogyny that pervades American life but one that confronts it directly."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...
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Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity!
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities are eligible.
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Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities are eligible.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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November 30, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity!
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities are eligible.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities are eligible.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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Call for pitches for the Summer 2025 NACLA Report guest edited by @kcorinealdi.bsky.social, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro on Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production - submit your article idea! nacla.org/call-pitches...
Call For Pitches | Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production
NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Call for pitches for the Summer 2025 NACLA Report guest edited by @kcorinealdi.bsky.social, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro on Central America(s): Sites of Knowledge Production - submit your article idea! nacla.org/call-pitches...
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Here is a fascinating article by Fara Dabhoiwala in the LRB about the 18c Afro-Jamaica polymath Francis Williams (c, 1690-c. 1770). Brilliant detective work on the level of Carlo Ginsburg. And it has a Benjamin Lay connection!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Here is a fascinating article by Fara Dabhoiwala in the LRB about the 18c Afro-Jamaica polymath Francis Williams (c, 1690-c. 1770). Brilliant detective work on the level of Carlo Ginsburg. And it has a Benjamin Lay connection!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Sharing this again now that I know how feeds work. But my department is hiring a tenure track #PublicHistory position with a preference for someone who specialized in US Indigenous or Latine history. 🗃️
Happy to answer any questions. Please share widely!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664
Happy to answer any questions. Please share widely!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664
History, Assistant Professor of Public History, Tenure Track
The candidate will have a PhD in History or a closely related field at the time of appointment. Candidates for the position must demonstrate clear potential for excellence in research and teaching, ob...
www.careers.luc.edu
November 19, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Sharing this again now that I know how feeds work. But my department is hiring a tenure track #PublicHistory position with a preference for someone who specialized in US Indigenous or Latine history. 🗃️
Happy to answer any questions. Please share widely!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664
Happy to answer any questions. Please share widely!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664
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Job posting : TT Assistant Professor in Latin American History, specializing in Environmental History
Closing date: November 29, 2024
Umontreal is a French-language university but offers support in language acquisition to all faculty.
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...
Closing date: November 29, 2024
Umontreal is a French-language university but offers support in language acquisition to all faculty.
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...
Careers
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November 16, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Job posting : TT Assistant Professor in Latin American History, specializing in Environmental History
Closing date: November 29, 2024
Umontreal is a French-language university but offers support in language acquisition to all faculty.
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...
Closing date: November 29, 2024
Umontreal is a French-language university but offers support in language acquisition to all faculty.
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...
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SCI is a new department at UConn and is hiring in American Studies! please share widely.
JOB ALERT: The Department of Social and Critical Inquiry (SCI) at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) invites applications for a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor position in American Studies, starting in August 2025. jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
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November 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
SCI is a new department at UConn and is hiring in American Studies! please share widely.