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Casey Schmitt
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Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
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The Predatory Sea – Penn Press
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...
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Congratulations to @randybrowne.bsky.social!!!
Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose book THE DRIVER'S STORY has been named a finalist for the Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, granted by The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
The Driver’s Story – Penn Press
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
CEO of unpopular product that has failed to live up to hype begs global community to adopt it anyway or they will go out of business...
January 20, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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What a fantastic special edition, with some top-tier scholars of monetary history! It's always worth reading @thetimeisnye.bsky.social on Ottoman Empire and Shweta Banerjee on the East India Company.
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
New year and a new project... 🫣
January 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
It's here! The most wonderful time of year!

"I am learning so much from this year’s catalog about how to overthink coffee. My coffeepot doesn’t have a gooseneck-style spout. My coffeemaker certainly doesn’t include a stopwatch for bloom times..."

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The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.

Details below. Please circulate widely!
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️

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JCB Reads 2025 with Casey Schmitt
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
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December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions

www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.

Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! 🗃️

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JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library
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November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
The award-winning journal Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 78 is now available, read it online: buff.ly/xTwnWC6

Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/3yk2Wny
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...

What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
🚨Tenure track job. Final alert🚨
The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
Donald Thompson: The humanities are a CEO’s edge
The humanities don’t slow business down. Critical thinking and broad contextual habits actually make the work world smarter, fairer and faster.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

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Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
Folks, applications for FEEGI's April 2026 conference at Rutgers are due 10/30! And for people interested in attending the PEAES workshop immediately beforehand (we're teaming up this time around), apps are due TODAY, 10/17! librarycompany.org/academic-pro... #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!

Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM