Bárbara Zepeda
Assoc. Prof. of History at Lehigh University on leave. John Carter Brown Library Fellow, 2024-25. IAS member 2023-24. Writing biography of José de Gálvez (1720-1787) for Yale UP. Eighteenth-century Studies. Book history too! Views and opinions are my own.
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días
- 😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."
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- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaThe crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
- It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social
- Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social
- Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social
- I called my representative and my two senators (including war-hawk Fetterman 😡) this morning! Have you 🫵🏽 done your job today? Stop the armed attacks on Venezuela! Stop the Epstein War!
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaThinking of all our friends and colleagues at Brown University. This craziness has to stop.
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaGod! Bless! the people who attended the hearing and shared with her what everyday people with a heart think of this cruelty. Absolutely worth a watch, even if the heroes are off camera.
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaHow many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙 🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663 👁️ id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaBefore the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaBreaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
- Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a... #Semiquincentennial #America250
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda“This was a very very bad vote”
- Deadline approaching: (Nov. 15th) #CFP International Conference: "Mary's Grandsons: Marian devotion, colonial politics and native strategies against imperial pressure", that will be celebrated in Madrid in May, 2026.👇🏾👇🏾 #history
- It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaI visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
- 😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaAs I’ve said before, there’s no better time to be running a Latin American studies program because you learn about the future from our region’s past
- You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o... With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaCan someone tell @npr.org they're not getting their funding back? This is not about a clash over the "drug trade." It's about the real possibility the US military murdered a civilian in Colombian waters.
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- Generation Z leads the chant 💪🏾: The People United, Will Never Be Defeated! #elpueblounidojamásserávencido — yesterday at #NoKings protest in the little town of Bethlehem, PA #NoKingsDayOct18th
- Generation Z leads the chant 💪🏾: The People United, Will Never Be Defeated! #elpueblounidojamásserávencido — yesterday at #NoKings protest in the little town of Bethlehem, PA #NoKingsDayOct18th
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda📣 AOC speaks out about fired federal workers in the sciences. "People's lives are literally on the line." FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants! WHEN: 10/17 @3pm WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM
- Tercera circular del congreso internacional“El Caribe, encrucijada del Mundo Atlántico” (Feb. 2026 en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷). Manden sus propuestas antes del 30 de octubre. 🌎 #CaribbeanStudies #estudioscaribeños
- #hispanicheritagemonth poetry reading gala at #LehighUniversity organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement #poetry #latinxpoetry
- #hispanicheritagemonth celebrations at Lehigh University! 🦋 organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaSome good advice SPOTTED over I-440 in Nashville…
- I got interviewed last tonight at Carpenter’s Hall, birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States (the First Continental Congress met here in 1774) #publichistory #AmericanRevolution
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepedaanother of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaHi all, I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market. As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Nathan
- Hello! I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education. Learn more about me and my work here: nathanellstrand.com
- 📢 #academicjob alert My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: a new Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6. apply.interfolio.com/172322
- The Spanish translation of my friend Mikael Wolfe's book on the Mexican Revolution and the environment is now available for download! www.palabradeclio.com.mx/src_pdf/Repa...
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda***Job Opportunity*** Assistant Professor, 20th/21st Century US and the World, Lehigh University 65/ apply.interfolio.com/172322?fbcli...
- 📢My department at #LehighUniversity is hiring: Assistant professor in "United States and the World 🌎 in the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries", 2:2 teaching load, review of applications begins on October 6. apply.interfolio.com/172322
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaLandon Block is a college student & journalist who grew up in Encinitas. Here's his Times of San Diego op ed about the ICE kidnapping near his childhood elementary school: "Opinion: ICE arrest of parent near my Encinitas school is just cruelty" timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaHappy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍 From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda***Attention Historians*** Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for August 2025. A thread. I will update the thread over the course of the month. 1/
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda***Historians*** Will you be attending the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) Annual Meeting in Santa Clara, CA? If so, check out my paper presentation, "Sanctuary Campuses: Student Activism from the Mid-1980s to Today" as part of panel 6 at 8:30 AM Thursday.
- #Blueskystorians of the world unite!!! -Which history book has left in you with the feeling ‘I want to write something like this’? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions (I am putting together the syllabus for the History research methods grad seminar I am teaching in the fall)
- Lehigh University Press + Bloomsbury = Great News 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 lupress.lehigh.edu/news/2025-lu...
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaCongratulations Bárbara 🎉 this award-winning article is now free to access ✨ @lehighu.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
- My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Novedad editorial de #sillavaciaeditorial “Alfredo López Austin: El mito, un concepto historiográfico” de la historiadora-antropóloga Amanda Uribe Cortés
- Hear Providence RI roar 🦁! No kings! 👑 🚫
- From LA to Providence, RI: we say: No Kings!
- Fulbright Fellowship Program slowly dying 😢 and 😠 apnews.com/article/fulb... Members of the Fulbright scholarship board resign, accusing Trump of meddling
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaSpent AM with my son volunteering at the Great Southside Sale, an inspiring Lehigh effort that sells 1000s of donated items for cents on the dollar to people who come in from all over the Valley, all proceeds to local schools. Love the GOAT Carolina Hernandez and her amazing Community Service Office
- Taylor&Francis has made my article #OpenAccess for the summer 🏖️ 😎 🌴 🍹 Enjoy the reading! #18cstudies #enlightenment #bookhistory #blueskystorians #JosédeGálvez #latinamericanhistory #historyofspain thank you T&F! 🙏🏽
- My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Read my colleague Monica Najar's new article on salacious anti-Catholic publications: "“Amorous Intrigues”: Gender, Sexuality, and Patriarchy in Eighteenth-Century Anti-Catholicism" #EighteenthcenturyStudies #blueskystorians #OpenAccess #sexhistory #genderstudies muse.jhu.edu/article/958896
- My #AtlanticStudies article “Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an 18th-c library that crisscrossed the Atlantic” 📚 🌎 won the Williamson Award 🏆 for Best Social Research given by @lehighu.bsky.social (DM for a copy) #bookhistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Submitted a book review for the Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico. “Miradas Coloniales” by Puig-Samper examines the intersections of photography, anthropology, and colonialism. Beautiful selection of historical photographs & great references to 19th-c photo-collections in archives from 10 countries.
- One of these winners 👇🏽 is my @lehighu.bsky.social graduate student Daniel Alejandro Ramos Matos with his PhD diss. project: “The Black Experience in the Spanish Caribbean Borderlands: Histories of Maritime Liberation in the Eighteenth Century” ¡Felicidades 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽! 🎉🎉🎉
- @martinhache.bsky.social ese nuevo episodio de The Last of Us, reaviva nuestro proyecto de maestría en Pedro Pascal Studies 😂😂
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaJustice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
- Reposted by Bárbara Zepeda"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Keep voting! 🗳️✊🏽
- ¡Qué bonita es la palabra merveilleux! Aquí estudiando la biblioteca de José de Gálvez en la John Carter Brown
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaBernie Sanders rally at 1 pm EST today in Bethlehem, PA. Live broadcast upcoming. www.youtube.com/live/3oeaBsz...
- Reposted by Bárbara ZepedaPedro Pascal Studies
- Scenes from our panel at #secolas2025 on the history of disability in #colonialLatinAmerica Full room! 🙌🏽 great questions from the audience 🙏🏽
- Nos vemos en una semana en el Instituto Mora en CDMX donde presentaremos ponencia sobre la locura del visitador @GalvezIndias en un maravilloso panel que aborda la Historia de la Discapacidad. Jueves, 12:30pm sala 6 #Secolas2025
- Today! 👇🏽 I’m presenting a paper in #secolas2025 along wonderful colleagues on #disabilitystudies in #coloniallatinamerica
- Nos vemos en una semana en el Instituto Mora en CDMX donde presentaremos ponencia sobre la locura del visitador @GalvezIndias en un maravilloso panel que aborda la Historia de la Discapacidad. Jueves, 12:30pm sala 6 #Secolas2025
