Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱
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.
- Welcome to Bluesky @thewha.bsky.social ! This will be a great place for #worldhistory content and conversation.
- I hope to see some of you at @historians.org this week! I'll be listening to all of your fab talks about #spatialhistory #DH, #worldhistory, #environmentalhistory, #chinesehistory and sitting in the exhibit hall at tables for @thewha.bsky.social and @whgazetteer.org. Find me there!
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- 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.
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- We are so excited about the @thewha.bsky.social conference in Incheon Korea next June! If you are interested in any aspect of teaching and research about the transnational and global human past, you should submit a paper or panel proposal and come join us! #worldhistory thewha.org/conferences/...
- I just read an op-ed in the New York Times by @dwallacewells.bsky.social that introduced me to the term "charismatic megatraumas." So good, wow.
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- Congratulations to all the superstar @whcpitt.bsky.social Digital Atlas interns! Check out the project portal, which includes 82 projects spanning eight years of student work.
- Boosting my Digital Data Specialist position at the Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Applications due this week!
- 📣Job Klaxon! A good #DH #spatialhistory position at the University of Pittsburgh with me and the @whgazetteer.org at the fab new (doesn't even have a website yet) Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI).
- 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.
- I am hearing news today about website content coming down.
- The Pitt University Times profiled me as someone whose grant got cancelled. I talked about what @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehafge3403.bsky.social means for my research, for the humanities, and for institutions in Pittsburgh; and my student who fled the US.
- The Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) is so new that we don't even have a website yet, but we're official! We'll be the new home for @whgazetteer.org and other work in digital methods, ethics, and projects for spatial history. Here's a little article about our work. Stay tuned!
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- So very thrilled and honored to be spending next week with @vierth.bsky.social and other smart people at the China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop and introducing the spatial humanities to some fabulous participants. chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
- #ThanksBrett from me as well.
- *sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
- I don't have the grimmest story, the biggest cardboard, or the best kerning, but I made a little something for Saturday #nokings.
- 📣Job Klaxon! A good #DH #spatialhistory position at the University of Pittsburgh with me and the @whgazetteer.org at the fab new (doesn't even have a website yet) Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI).
- Thank you @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social, @nehgov.bsky.social & @neh-odh.bsky.social: not just funders but helpful & steadfast supporters of @whgazetteer.org and so much else in our fields. The NEH selection committees I joined over the years were a source of camaraderie, the staff was the best part.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - I just did a photoshoot for a new institutional headshot. Naturally, the backdrop was a big wall map (Pitt Global Hub) and the whole time I was posing, I was thinking AND IT'S A GALL-PETERS PROJECTION!
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- 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...
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- Curious about DH for Chinese studies? Apply to this great workshop that @annamshields.bsky.social and @vierth.bsky.social have organized! I'll be there talking about @whgazetteer.org and other spatial things!
- Catalan Atlas! www.cresquesproject.net/home
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- 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
- Today!
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- The @aclu.org has sued the University of Pittsburgh for violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments by placing Students for Justice in Palestine on an indefinite suspension despite no obvious violation of Pitt's policies. www.aclupa.org/en/sjp-pitt.
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- 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.
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- Reposted by Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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- This is exciting! Principles include: all history is political, be suspicious of positivism, all history is global history, all history is historiography, do justice-focused history, boycott colonial occupiers, solidarity with the oppressed is a core concern of the historian.
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- In the spirit of more humanities, libraries, responsible data sharing, and international collaboration, I am delighted to share the call for proposals for the "Sustainable Databases in the Humanities" online conference. I'm honored to be one of the plenary speakers. scientoconference.com/sdh-2025/
- Excellent article in today's Chronicle of Higher Ed about how universities need to build broad alliances of defenders rather than acquiesce to political attacks.
- Among the terrifying and tragic events of the moment, the arbitrary erasure of place names is not the worst, but it's not so great either. I'm pleased to have been interviewed for this article from @history.com www.history.com/news/place-n...
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- I am delighted to report that the WHA @thewha.bsky.social Resolution Opposing Scholasticide in Gaza has passed with 83%of voters in favor!
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- Reposted by Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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- World History Association @thewha.bsky.social members! We're proud to open voting on our Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza, which responds both to the dire situation in Palestine and the American Historical Association @historians.org veto last month. members.thewha.org/page/resolut...
- 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.
- As a regular reviewer of NEH grants, supporter of NEH on Capitol Hill lobby days, recipient of NEH funds, friend of NEH staffers (as well as a parent of a gender non-conforming young person) this one hits me in the gut.
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- This eloquent and ethical article by former AHA President Barbara Weinstein is so good and so important.
- American Historical Association @historians.org members! Sign the petition calling on the AHA Council to rescind the veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide that passed overwhelmingly at the annual meeting last month and to put the resolution to a vote of all AHA members. tinyurl.com/256x3se4
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- I'm proud and happy that the Pitt World History Center @whcpitt.bsky.social is sponsoring this timely event tomorrow: "Global Perspectives on the Role of Faculty in an Age of Campus Repression. calendar.pitt.edu/event/global...
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- If you used BERT to identify and classify 6,000 entities over 300 years, great! But if your article about that for a history journal ignores any reference to historical context (including lengthy, destructive, and cataclysmic war), your self driving car has driven into a ditch and burst into flame.
- Reposted by Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱DISCOVERED BUT FORGOTTEN On China’s early connections with the Maldives, offering new views of maritime exploration and Indian Ocean history. A colorful world of intriguing commodities, port marriages, and long voyages. December 2024 @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/discove...
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- What a disgrace.
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- 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!
- Check out our @whcpitt.bsky.social events, everyone! We have a great semester underway!
- 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!
