Roz
@rozsro.bsky.social
History ABD at Duke / visiting student at Cambridge
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!
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Time again to share this amazing turkey content:
Turkey attacks mail truck on Cape Cod
YouTube video by Cape Cod Times
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November 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Time again to share this amazing turkey content:
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Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.
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'The government will charge universities £925 per international student for each year of study from August 2028, in a blow to cash-strapped higher education institutions.' 1/3
International student levy set at £925 per student from 2028
Chancellor confirms details of controversial tax on income from overseas students, while universities also expect to be hit by changes to pension tax rules
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'The government will charge universities £925 per international student for each year of study from August 2028, in a blow to cash-strapped higher education institutions.' 1/3
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.
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Just out: symposium on my article on abortion in colonial India, featuring comments by 3 historians of abortion in other times and places: Melissa Feinberg, Matthew Sommer, Philippa Levine. Open Access. I love the comparative insights that came out of this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428. | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428. - Volume 59 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Just out: symposium on my article on abortion in colonial India, featuring comments by 3 historians of abortion in other times and places: Melissa Feinberg, Matthew Sommer, Philippa Levine. Open Access. I love the comparative insights that came out of this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is unreal.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is unreal.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes. CJ Kuncheria on Raman Mahadevan's 'Fortune Seekers'
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
What the Chettiar Story Reveals about Caste and Business
Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes.
www.theindiaforum.in
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes. CJ Kuncheria on Raman Mahadevan's 'Fortune Seekers'
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
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A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
Keeping posts going
Pity the poor British Library, an institution which simultaneously does such great things, yet at the same time seems to have utterly lost its way. The cyberattack of 2023 has created damage not on…
lukemckernan.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
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Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬
Sign the Petition
Montclair State is Eliminating All Humanities Departments
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November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬
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And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins governor's race in Virginia - DDHQ
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins governor's race in Virginia - DDHQ
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A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors mad...
www.openculture.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan