@alexarodriguezphd
Assist Professor @UVA ✍🏽 Crafting Dominicanidad (forth. UNC Press) about education and citizenship during the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic & director @dominicanvoices.bsky.social bilingual digital archive documenting education and childhood
The decline of cursive instruction in schools has left students unable to parse archival documents written in script, Drew Gilpin Faust wrote in 2022. Can you study history if you can’t read cursive?
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
New Postdoc in Latin American Studies at UTAustin! Looks like a great opportunity to work with a top program and amaaaazing library! liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/news/...
Winter Break Internships! Work with us. So exciting @cecilestudio.bsky.social + I have 13 candidates we are reviewing for a curatorial project and art exhibition. 10 hrs remote research. Chinese migration to the Caribbean + South America. @huntercollege please apply. PAID INTERNSHIP afro-asia group
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
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You can read some of Prof. Velasco's work on the history of Venezuela in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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In UNCENSORED, education historian and professor of English, Jonna Perrillo explains how educators can establish vital community networks to ensure that meaningful, deep reading experiences continue. Pre-order this book here: https://bit.ly/46KSXDY #BannedBooksWeek
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New publication! 🚨
My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts.
First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...
We are always looking for stories. If you, or someone you know, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic between 1920 and 1960, we invite you to contact us at ProyectoVocesDominicanas@gmail.com or (434) 982-2887 (WhatsApp) to set up an interview.
We are recording these stories to broaden our understanding of what education and childhood were like in the Dominican Republic in the early 20th century. We aim to go beyond written sources to capture the diverse ways people learned, both within and outside of formal schools.
The Dominican Voices Project is a bilingual digital archive that documents education and childhood in the Dominican Republic from 1920 to 1960. Our goal is to collect videotaped interviews with Dominicans who were born and raised in the country during the 1920s to 1960s.
Don’t miss the New York Public Library’s guided tour of our San Juan Hill exhibition!
RSVP here: https://ow.ly/mfgk50X4luW
Upcoming Virtual Event: Emerging Scholars Café
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Emerging Scholars invites you to the relaunch of its Emerging Scholar’s Cafes on September 26, 2025 at 8pm CET/ 2pm EST/11am PST.
Join us October 10 for an in-person conference, Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge, featuring twenty presentations by a range of scholars, researchers and cultural organizers selected via open call.
View the program and RSVP online. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
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The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination by tying federal money to racial quotas.
1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.
This is wrong.
And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
***Digital History Seed Grants***
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
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Excellent 🧵with timeless insights about technology and power
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AERA—in partnership with these organizations—has filed a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s unlawful mass terminations of grants at the National Science Foundation, and the consequent harms to AERA, many of our members, and America’s scientific research enterprise. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
Thank you so much for your interest! While the book is not out yet I’ll make sure the press has your contact information for when it is.
“‘I’m a member of the media, officer,’ Guevara tells a police officer right before he’s arrested. The video shows Guevara wearing a bright red shirt under a protective vest with ‘PRESS’ printed across his chest.” apnews.com/article/jour...
Not From Here, the IEHS blog, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity.
We seek blog posts about identity, archival research, contemporary issues, reflections on pedagogical theory and practice, and much more!
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