Sarah Bellows-Blakely
@bellowsblakely.bsky.social
Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, science, gender, capitalism, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure
Pinned
My book is out! Official publication date is May 6th, but hard copies are already shipping. Thanks to Abosede George and Lynn Thomas for graciously writing blurbs for the back cover. The acknowledgments section is four pages long for a reason! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Our final panelist, @adriannalink.bsky.social, discusses how @amphilsociety.bsky.social's new project (America's Scientific Revolutionaries) will highlight lesser-known contributors to the history of science.
(Although some of these names are pretty well-known in this room...) #HSS2025
(Although some of these names are pretty well-known in this room...) #HSS2025
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Our final panelist, @adriannalink.bsky.social, discusses how @amphilsociety.bsky.social's new project (America's Scientific Revolutionaries) will highlight lesser-known contributors to the history of science.
(Although some of these names are pretty well-known in this room...) #HSS2025
(Although some of these names are pretty well-known in this room...) #HSS2025
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We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!
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🚨🚨CFP klaxon🚨🚨
International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!
International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!
Kongress | Geschlechtergeschichte 2026 - Universität Bielefeld
Kongress „Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte – Anfechtung von Demokratie, Diversität und Verantwortung“, Universität Bielefeld, 9.–11.9.2026
www.genderhistory2026.de
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨🚨CFP klaxon🚨🚨
International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!
International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!
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Save the date! Really looking forward to this:
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Save the date! Really looking forward to this:
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New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢
Project MUSE - Working-Class Internationalism through Children's Eyes: The International Experiences of Norwegian Young Pioneers in the Interwar Period
muse.jhu.edu
April 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢
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Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
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Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner
Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.
www.the-berliner.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...
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Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.
Something I’ve been thinking about:
History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.
Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/
History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.
Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.
Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.
My monograph "Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s" has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social this summer!
If you are curious, please order the book here or ask your favorite library to purchase it for you
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
If you are curious, please order the book here or ask your favorite library to purchase it for you
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.
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🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024
muse.jhu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
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This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:
August 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:
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📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social
LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
lexnetwork.org
July 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social
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We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.
The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.
The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
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If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention
doi.org/10.1093/obo/...
doi.org/10.1093/obo/...
Girlhood Studies
"Girlhood Studies" published on by null.
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention
doi.org/10.1093/obo/...
doi.org/10.1093/obo/...
Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.
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"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern:
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
Veranstaltungen
Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...
www.gendercampus.ch
July 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern:
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
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Academics!
Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).
Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.
Happy to answer questions!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).
Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.
Happy to answer questions!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Thinking Through the Legacy of James Ferguson
think.taylorandfrancis.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Academics!
Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).
Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.
Happy to answer questions!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).
Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.
Happy to answer questions!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Welcome to Bluesky, @sciam.bsky.social! 🦋
More of this, please . . .
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️⚧️🧪
More of this, please . . .
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️⚧️🧪
July 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Welcome to Bluesky, @sciam.bsky.social! 🦋
More of this, please . . .
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️⚧️🧪
More of this, please . . .
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️⚧️🧪
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book length version from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Sex Is a Spectrum
Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male
press.princeton.edu
July 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
book length version from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
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Go listen to my new series Science in Transition!! It's a history of the current anti-trans backlash and the first two episodes are out!!
July 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Go listen to my new series Science in Transition!! It's a history of the current anti-trans backlash and the first two episodes are out!!
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
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An interesting programme at WHN conference this year -especially as RCN's Teresa Doherty, Joint Head, Library and Archive Service, is giving a keynote on day 2 #histnursing
July 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
An interesting programme at WHN conference this year -especially as RCN's Teresa Doherty, Joint Head, Library and Archive Service, is giving a keynote on day 2 #histnursing