John O'Keefe
@johnokeefe.bsky.social
Historian of migration and citizenship at Ohio University Chillicothe - author of Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic
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🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?
What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?
Its role as the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research has granted the foundation—and its president—enormous influence over American arts and letters.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
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A professor at The Ohio State University attacked a documentary camera person in a university building. According to reports: The incident occurred at the university’s Salmon P. Chase Center for Intellectual Diversity and Free Speech.
thenerdstash.com/ohio-state-c...
thenerdstash.com/ohio-state-c...
Ohio State Campus Erupts After Professor Confrontation Sparks Calls For Dismissal: 'He Should Be Arrested'
Ohioans react with outrage after video shows an Ohio State professor confronting a cameraman, with many demanding accountability.
thenerdstash.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A professor at The Ohio State University attacked a documentary camera person in a university building. According to reports: The incident occurred at the university’s Salmon P. Chase Center for Intellectual Diversity and Free Speech.
thenerdstash.com/ohio-state-c...
thenerdstash.com/ohio-state-c...
@athensindy.bsky.social reporter Dani Kington has some great coverage of the university's continued spending on law firms while they delay and draw out our contract negotiations #aaup #aft #unionizing #highered #ohiouniversity athensindependent.com/ohio-univers...
Ohio University racks up legal fees amid faculty union negotiations – Athens County Independent
OU spent $200k in one year to challenge the certification of the faculty union election and engage in contract negotiations.
athensindependent.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
@athensindy.bsky.social reporter Dani Kington has some great coverage of the university's continued spending on law firms while they delay and draw out our contract negotiations #aaup #aft #unionizing #highered #ohiouniversity athensindependent.com/ohio-univers...
Also has the story behind this, getting a bunch of artists together to make a trip to the headshot studio, and more #arthistory
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo. [ironicsans.ghost.io]
80s Headshots of Famous Artists
Central Casting, but make it art
ironicsans.ghost.io
February 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Also has the story behind this, getting a bunch of artists together to make a trip to the headshot studio, and more #arthistory
For today's #ohiohistory class - Margaret Garner and Victoria Woodhull #womenshistory
February 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
For today's #ohiohistory class - Margaret Garner and Victoria Woodhull #womenshistory
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Congratulations to the journalists at the Columbus Dispatch and the Newark Advocate on their huge union election win!
Columbus Dispatch, Newark Advocate journalists vote to unionize
The Columbus Dispatch has undergone serious staff cuts in the six years following a merger between GateHouse Media and Gannett. The smaller Newark Advocate, which covers Licking County, has seen even ...
www.wosu.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations to the journalists at the Columbus Dispatch and the Newark Advocate on their huge union election win!
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COLUMBUS OH — Republican lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives introduced a sweeping legislative package designed to compel local cooperation w/federal immigration enforcement, sparking a sharp partisan battle over state sovereignty & public safety.
by Joe Durbin
local12.com/newsletter-d...
by Joe Durbin
local12.com/newsletter-d...
Ohio Republicans introduce multi-bill package to mandate cooperation with ICE
The suite of four bills has been dubbed by some as the 'Cooperation Package.'
local12.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 AM
COLUMBUS OH — Republican lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives introduced a sweeping legislative package designed to compel local cooperation w/federal immigration enforcement, sparking a sharp partisan battle over state sovereignty & public safety.
by Joe Durbin
local12.com/newsletter-d...
by Joe Durbin
local12.com/newsletter-d...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t
Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
www.history.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t
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"In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell.'
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
"In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell.'
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
"He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times"
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Historian Jorell Meléndez-Bodilla was asked to write short histories for visualizer versions of the album’s videos:
youtu.be/v9T_MGfzq7I?...
Historian Jorell Meléndez-Bodilla was asked to write short histories for visualizer versions of the album’s videos:
youtu.be/v9T_MGfzq7I?...
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Historian Jorell Meléndez-Bodilla was asked to write short histories for visualizer versions of the album’s videos:
youtu.be/v9T_MGfzq7I?...
Historian Jorell Meléndez-Bodilla was asked to write short histories for visualizer versions of the album’s videos:
youtu.be/v9T_MGfzq7I?...
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Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.
Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26
This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...
forms.gle
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.
more items of interest here (as always!)
As the Super Snacking ramps up, so should your #ScholarSunday. Check out all this great public scholarship, & please share widely so it can touch down with everybody, team! @lollardfish.bsky.social 🗃️
Whether you’re most excited for the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, or the Superb Owl, tailgate with my 262nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, team! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
more items of interest here (as always!)
Entering the White House as women's roles in the United States were rapidly evolving, Lucy Webb Hayes represented a potential bridge for many. Would she be a champion for suffrage & temperance? Would she use her position as First Lady to usher in a new era for the United States? Tune in to find out!
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Also discusses the #publichistory aspect of memorializing those who died
“Guthrie’s lyrics and Hernandez’s prose illuminate today’s complicity in trauma-producing violence of deportation by air.”
New at PB: Eric Porter on the deportation flight, and a 1948 crash whose coverage in the media dehumanized 28 Mexican nationals.
New at PB: Eric Porter on the deportation flight, and a 1948 crash whose coverage in the media dehumanized 28 Mexican nationals.
The Once and Future Deportation Flight? - Public Books
78 years ago today, a US plane deporting 28 Mexican nationals crashed into California’s Los Gatos Canyon, killing all aboard.
www.publicbooks.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Also discusses the #publichistory aspect of memorializing those who died
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Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post. Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Zoom Registration required.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/investigat...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/investigat...
Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post
Few reporters have done more to expose what’s happening inside America’s sprawling immigrant detention system than Doug MacMillan.
austinkocher.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post. Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Zoom Registration required.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/investigat...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/investigat...
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion Books, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I
Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I
Madrid on the Move:
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
newbooksnetwork.com/madrid-on-th... #urbanhistory #modernity #europeanhistory #visualculture
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
newbooksnetwork.com/madrid-on-th... #urbanhistory #modernity #europeanhistory #visualculture
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Madrid on the Move:
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
newbooksnetwork.com/madrid-on-th... #urbanhistory #modernity #europeanhistory #visualculture
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
newbooksnetwork.com/madrid-on-th... #urbanhistory #modernity #europeanhistory #visualculture
Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule
by @fangyuhu.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi... #womenshistory #colonialism #chinesehistory
by @fangyuhu.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi... #womenshistory #colonialism #chinesehistory
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule
by @fangyuhu.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi... #womenshistory #colonialism #chinesehistory
by @fangyuhu.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi... #womenshistory #colonialism #chinesehistory
A few more podcast eps
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
A few more podcast eps
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Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
www.aaup.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Also in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly Latino farmworkers in Ohio and Michigan organized with help from Baldemar Velásquez, pressuring Campbell Soup and farmers for better working conditions. They organized a 600-mile march from Ohio to New Jersey. #ohiohistory #laborhistory #farmworkers #floc
February 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Also in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly Latino farmworkers in Ohio and Michigan organized with help from Baldemar Velásquez, pressuring Campbell Soup and farmers for better working conditions. They organized a 600-mile march from Ohio to New Jersey. #ohiohistory #laborhistory #farmworkers #floc
Working on more material to assign for my #ohiohistory class. I currently have a brief newsreel about the 1934 Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo and I want to expand what's there. Looking at Korth and Beagle's oral history I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 (Michigan State U Press 1988)
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Working on more material to assign for my #ohiohistory class. I currently have a brief newsreel about the 1934 Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo and I want to expand what's there. Looking at Korth and Beagle's oral history I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 (Michigan State U Press 1988)
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📚 Black History Month Spotlight
FALSE PROMISES—by Ric S. Sheffield—is a powerful account of Black Ohioans who fought for their right to vote despite nineteenth‑century laws designed to silence them.
Learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 #VotingRights
FALSE PROMISES—by Ric S. Sheffield—is a powerful account of Black Ohioans who fought for their right to vote despite nineteenth‑century laws designed to silence them.
Learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 #VotingRights
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
📚 Black History Month Spotlight
FALSE PROMISES—by Ric S. Sheffield—is a powerful account of Black Ohioans who fought for their right to vote despite nineteenth‑century laws designed to silence them.
Learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 #VotingRights
FALSE PROMISES—by Ric S. Sheffield—is a powerful account of Black Ohioans who fought for their right to vote despite nineteenth‑century laws designed to silence them.
Learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 #VotingRights