Miguel Angel Chavez
Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: drowning in grading 🫠😓
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- #Caturday 🐱: Min Zhen 閔貞 (China, 1730–after 1791) Black #Cat (n.d.; Qing dynasty, 18th c.) Hanging scroll; ink on paper Painting: 78.5 x 38.5 cm. (30 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.) Princeton University Art Museum y1947-65 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #CatsInArt #ChineseArt
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[Not loaded yet] - I can that this week is the first of the semester where I don’t feel absolutely harried by work. I was able to do some gardening, spend time with my partner, and read. Things will pick up again this week, but I’m at least grateful for the respite 🙂 #academia 🗃️
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- Reposted by Miguel Angel ChavezUNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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- Yesterday I presented my paper at the MWCBS conference at @elmhurstbluejays.bsky.social It went really well! 🙂 I was especially appreciative of the comments and recommended readings to further develop my work on the use of pedagogical violence in British-led exploratory missions to Africa
- Reposted by Miguel Angel ChavezI’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️
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- Reposted by Miguel Angel ChavezDuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
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- Reposted by Miguel Angel ChavezI do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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- Prepping for my trip to London & Brussels in a couple of days! 🇬🇧 🇧🇪 To be back in the archives! And to escape this Tennessean heat! 😆
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- Very nice graduation ceremony today! Literally had a front row seat 😁
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- Finished the multiple choice portion of three exams. Now to read 100+ essays 😪😓
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- Finished one batch of exams…two more to go! Wish me luck 🫡 #midterms-are-a-drain
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- Took this photo on Sunday on my way back to Nashville from Dallas. No place like home 🙂
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- Enjoying some delicious homemade pozole for Christmas Eve 😋 So good! 😊
- Reposted by Miguel Angel Chavez"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits
- For sci-fi or general non-fiction, definitely via audiobook since it makes commuting enjoyable. “Canonical” fiction and scholarly works, always reading and I can’t imagine doing this via audio 😵
- Taking rhetoric classes as a freshman did help me become a better writer, but it also helped me to better recognize the structures of arguments. That the rhetoric courses were also thematic, be it in media analysis or environmental issues, also helped me to understand why it mattered.
- Finished grading on Monday and I’ve finished my assessment reports yesterday! I’m done with the semester! 😎 Now I have time to finally get back to writing! 🎉
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- Reposted by Miguel Angel ChavezThis is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
