Mark Rhodes
Geographer, Musician, Gardener. Associate Professor at Michigan Tech, IASH Fellow at University of Edinburgh, & Schuman Fulbright Scholar looking at heritage institutions, memory work, and cultural landscapes. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.🖖 views=mine
- I'll ditto that! 5 classes I took in college: >Intro to Ethnic Studies (required for all freshmen!) >Minnesota (pre-1858) >Europeans in Indian Country and Indians in Europe >Castles, Crags, and Coastlines >Immigrant America
- I've had a rocky relationship with my alma mater this past year, but SCSU has shown its quality over the past month in the face of overwhelming adversity and violence. Very proud to see the new president take a non-negotiable stance protecting and supporting students. @scsualumni.bsky.social
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- Today marks the end of my fabulous APS (@amphilsociety.bsky.social) Fellowship at IASH (@iashedinburgh.bsky.social). What began as an empirical assessment into National Museums Scotland's books has instead revealed the relational, emotional, and fluid dynamics underpinning our national museums.
- Reposted by Mark RhodesResidency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)
- Reposted by Mark RhodesLooking to explore a career outside academia? Recent PhDs: apply by March 11 to be an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! Put your humanities PhD skills to work at mission-driven nonprofits across the country. Learn more: www.acls.org/LeadingEdge
- 50 years from now we'll be visiting the Minneapolis Homeland "Security" Shootings Site wondering how we could have let things get so bad and vowing "never again" while the next demagogue plays upon the nation's fears and vulnerabilities for their personal benefit.
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- Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
- Reposted by Mark RhodesThis sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
- Reposted by Mark RhodesMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
- Reposted by Mark RhodesWhat we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
- Illegal action is illegal... Who knew‽ Howabout we enforce our own laws?
- @mprnews.org has been ON IT the past two weeks. Maybe it's time Minnesota takes some pointers from Catalonia and summon their fire fighters to help maintain the law and order that these federal forces show zero regard for. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Today's victory is being able to use an interrobang in an interview transcription. Exciting‽
- Reposted by Mark RhodesCan’t argue with that logic! #YanquiStayHome www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by Mark RhodesMaster’s & Doctoral students at universities in the U.S.! Apply today to be considered for an award of $2,000 to support your #geography #gis #geospatial research. Projects with a fieldwork component will be prioritized. Email the proposal materials below to ags@americangeo.org before Jan. 16th.
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- I've seen so many calls that the #Smithsonian is "changing history." History is always changing and is always political. The question and concern should lie with how power is shaping those changes. Luckily, we have the Citizen Historians tracking this... www.citizenhistorians.org/exhibit-chan...
- Reposted by Mark Rhodes"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
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- An excellent warning to higher-ed administrators and politicians. Don't mess around with free speech. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
- Perhaps @npr.org's best journalism yet. It says something that they're willing to put so many resources into mapping out an attack on our government even after our government defunds them. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
- Reposted by Mark RhodesThe destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
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- Time to break out this old playlist that I've tweaked a bit since grad school. open.spotify.com/playlist/1zY...
- For when I inevitably ask you to review a paper for the re-awakening North American Journal of Welsh Studies... #Wales #Welsh #peerreview #publishing #highered #academia
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- Just got in this year's slew of graduate letters. One asked me to rank their lab experience/research. What even is that? Their ability to follow directions? And when did every university decide they need an exact percentage tier of our students' skills? A range is fine...but 3%, 1%, really...?
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- Reposted by Mark Rhodes'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
- It's been two years since Kenny tragically passed away over break. I'm touched to see this posthumous publication of his senior thesis in memoriam to him and his family. We lost a student, a friend, and a damn fine archaeologist. @michigantech.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- For some reason, I don't think people have the EU Anthem playing in the background when thinking of "promoting European greatness." 🎵Speed the slow, and check the eager, help the weak, and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, none shall let another fall.🎵 youtu.be/qJHh6UX87Gg?...
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- The ignorance and blatant racism being leveled at Americans of Somali descent and Somali refugees in Minnesota should never be tolerated. Glad to see the St. Cloud community, that I lived in for 4 years, coming together to show their solidarity.
- Reposted by Mark RhodesCome & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social! Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️ www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
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- Love to see the @naaswch.bsky.social shoutout! It was great to be there in-person for the recording. The more we can dissolve the incredibly sticky Madoc Myth the better. No, Indigenous Peoples in the Americans didn't learn how to fish or speak from the Welsh
- Over 40 years, National Museums Scotland published 1000+ places to @visit-scotland.bsky.social. Shout out to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & @amphilpress.bsky.social for support building this unwieldy database. A pie chart won't cut it... too bad there's no other way to map spatio-temporal data. 😏📍🗺️📍
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- I've managed to get through 3000 books in the past 3 months forming a massive database of books published by or in association with National Museums Scotland and its predecessors. So much to say on museology and nation-building from the perspectives of this now-defunct (as of 2025) national press!
- Reposted by Mark RhodesCall for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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- Reposted by Mark Rhodes#OpenAccess in Area: 'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition. doi.org/10.1111/area...
- Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!
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- Mae'r gwaith yn iawn araf.
- Reposted by Mark Rhodes#OpenAccess in Area: 'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area...
- Reposted by Mark RhodesThese are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
- I've spent the past two days tracing the last remaining elements of Amgueddfa Cymru's presence in Caernarfon Harbour while they owned and contributed labor, material, and financial resources towards the operation of the Seiont II and Nantlys ships @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mark RhodesCome work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
- Looking forward to jumping back into another TICCIH Congress tomorrow in Kiruna. In the meantime, tracing Kiruna's historical links to Narvik has been thrilling! #TICCIH #TICCIH25
- Reposted by Mark RhodesHey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!
- Love to see the @michigantech.bsky.social shout out for our key role in this year's conference!
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- When you log in to CITI, not remembering if your training has expired and whether you need to spend 3 hours mashing buttons about how to most ethically extract bodily samples from people... . . . Today was my lucky day...expiration 2027. IRB now in.
- As I'm putting the finishing touches on my Wales program this year, I've turned to more Planet articles. Shorter, better written, and punchier, they make me hope for a return of the journal. #Wales #WelshStudies #Publishing
- The protests at #KentState started on May 1st against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. By May 3rd, 1000 National Guard were on campus. On May 4th, 1970, during protests against the use of the #NationalGuard to supress the freedom of assembly, 4 students were murdered, 9 more shot.
- First Duolingo stopped servicing Welsh, now they're "AI-first". I've always loved DuoLingo Classroom for my regional and Study Abroad courses, but this is beyond the pale. I'd rather turn to a (Welsh) company like SaySomethingIn and just have students send in screenshots.
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- My writing process in a gif
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- An 85-year old protest of the privatization of public services. Sargent Johnson laid down his saw as soon as the Federal and San Francisco city governments sold out to turn the publically-funded Aquatic Park into a private casino. Glad to see it now in the care of the NPS.
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- "Every artist, every scientist, must decide NOW where they stand. They have no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers...
- Reposted by Mark Rhodes”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
