Jonathan R Parker
@jonathanrparker.bsky.social
Early career historian. PhD 2025 UT Austin. Cultural history of nationalism, bureaucracy, & empire in Central and Eastern Europe. PhD Diss: Police in interwar 🇨🇿-🇸🇰. Thinking about what it means to police democratically. Circulating around 🇺🇸 (MN) 🇬🇧 & 🇨🇿
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Just updated my bio here. Now living in the North Star State, but open to postdocs and early career-type academic positions wherever they are available! My specialty is modern Central and Eastern Europe, along with global histories of empire and nationalism. Also pretty handy with MS Excel!
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coming your way in January 2026! perversely proud that, as far as I can tell, this will be only the *second* article in JHistSex primarily about bisexuality.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
coming your way in January 2026! perversely proud that, as far as I can tell, this will be only the *second* article in JHistSex primarily about bisexuality.
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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In St. John's? Come to our event!
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In St. John's? Come to our event!
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research!
#researchweek2025
Excited to read these recent purchases! Thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for the sale and @ankahajkova.bsky.social for signing my copy in Minneapolis!
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Excited to read these recent purchases! Thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for the sale and @ankahajkova.bsky.social for signing my copy in Minneapolis!
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Happy to share that I have been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant that will allow me to return to @unibas.ch as an assistant professor for five years next summer. I will also be able to hire a team to work with me on a project about treason, democracy, and the rule of law in interwar Czechoslovakia.
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Happy to share that I have been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant that will allow me to return to @unibas.ch as an assistant professor for five years next summer. I will also be able to hire a team to work with me on a project about treason, democracy, and the rule of law in interwar Czechoslovakia.
Since I took the oath to become a U.S. citizen I have been thinking about this poem off and on again. I had never read the whole thing until it came in the packet of pamphlets from USCIS: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned li...
www.poetryfoundation.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Since I took the oath to become a U.S. citizen I have been thinking about this poem off and on again. I had never read the whole thing until it came in the packet of pamphlets from USCIS: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...
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CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
August 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Excited to read this (available as open access ebook): www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Habsburg Encounters with Native America
The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peopl...
www.aup.nl
September 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Excited to read this (available as open access ebook): www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Just updated my bio here. Now living in the North Star State, but open to postdocs and early career-type academic positions wherever they are available! My specialty is modern Central and Eastern Europe, along with global histories of empire and nationalism. Also pretty handy with MS Excel!
June 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Just updated my bio here. Now living in the North Star State, but open to postdocs and early career-type academic positions wherever they are available! My specialty is modern Central and Eastern Europe, along with global histories of empire and nationalism. Also pretty handy with MS Excel!
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go ahead n check your phone one last time before you go to sleep or you might miss that rejection letter
June 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
go ahead n check your phone one last time before you go to sleep or you might miss that rejection letter
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CFA!
Call for application 2025/26
The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025.
The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025.
For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/
The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025.
The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025.
For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/
April 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
CFA!
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In Latin American Spanish, “Pope” and “potato” are written the same, except for gender capitalisation, so (el) Papa ⛪️ and (la) papa 🥔 sound the same. Which is making Peru’s chips brands do this bit: “Perú, Tierra de Papas”; Peru, Land of Potatoes/Popes
May 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In Latin American Spanish, “Pope” and “potato” are written the same, except for gender capitalisation, so (el) Papa ⛪️ and (la) papa 🥔 sound the same. Which is making Peru’s chips brands do this bit: “Perú, Tierra de Papas”; Peru, Land of Potatoes/Popes
It's official! Today I defended my PhD dissertation, and so I am now Dr. Parker! Only a few minor corrections to make to the dissertation and one more month of teaching, and I will have concluded my PhD in History! Looking forward to a long vacation and what comes next.
April 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It's official! Today I defended my PhD dissertation, and so I am now Dr. Parker! Only a few minor corrections to make to the dissertation and one more month of teaching, and I will have concluded my PhD in History! Looking forward to a long vacation and what comes next.
I did it! This past weekend, I submitted my dissertation to my faculty committee. 273 pages or 87,000+ words in the end. Looking forward to the defense in just a few weeks!
March 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I did it! This past weekend, I submitted my dissertation to my faculty committee. 273 pages or 87,000+ words in the end. Looking forward to the defense in just a few weeks!
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Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert.
Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.
🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh
Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.
🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh
February 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert.
Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.
🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh
Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.
🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh
Currently trying to power through final revisions to my dissertation draft, due at the end of next week with my committee, even with everything else going on... Fingers crossed for the defence in just over one month.
March 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Currently trying to power through final revisions to my dissertation draft, due at the end of next week with my committee, even with everything else going on... Fingers crossed for the defence in just over one month.
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My new book - 'A Pacific Power' - has a cover, and you can pre-order it! www.waterstones.com/book/a-pacif...
A Pacific Power by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick | Waterstones
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February 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
My new book - 'A Pacific Power' - has a cover, and you can pre-order it! www.waterstones.com/book/a-pacif...
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CfP Annual Conference of the Collegium Carolinum 2025 "Globalizing Interwar Czechoslovakia", Fischbachau (Oberbayern), 13-16 November 2025
Deadline: 15 April 2025, collegium-carolinum.de/jahrestagung... @aseees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
Deadline: 15 April 2025, collegium-carolinum.de/jahrestagung... @aseees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
collegium-carolinum.de
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
CfP Annual Conference of the Collegium Carolinum 2025 "Globalizing Interwar Czechoslovakia", Fischbachau (Oberbayern), 13-16 November 2025
Deadline: 15 April 2025, collegium-carolinum.de/jahrestagung... @aseees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
Deadline: 15 April 2025, collegium-carolinum.de/jahrestagung... @aseees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!
Slavic Queer Studies
sqsjournal.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!
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Argh, the State Department historical documents/Foreign Relations of the United States series websites keep going on and offline (I'm intermittently getting access and then getting 502s). Trying to download as much as I can while I can. Really not good...
attn: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
attn: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Argh, the State Department historical documents/Foreign Relations of the United States series websites keep going on and offline (I'm intermittently getting access and then getting 502s). Trying to download as much as I can while I can. Really not good...
attn: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
attn: @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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Books.
They are AWESOME.
You purchase one, and you OWN IT. It's like, THERE right on your shelf.
It doesn't require regular online patches.
You don't need to be online to read it.
Books fucking RULE.
They are AWESOME.
You purchase one, and you OWN IT. It's like, THERE right on your shelf.
It doesn't require regular online patches.
You don't need to be online to read it.
Books fucking RULE.
April 28, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Books.
They are AWESOME.
You purchase one, and you OWN IT. It's like, THERE right on your shelf.
It doesn't require regular online patches.
You don't need to be online to read it.
Books fucking RULE.
They are AWESOME.
You purchase one, and you OWN IT. It's like, THERE right on your shelf.
It doesn't require regular online patches.
You don't need to be online to read it.
Books fucking RULE.
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If the passport was such a useless vexation after WWI, why wasn’t it abolished?
Here, the hypothesis of political “utility”: the regime of obligatory passports enabled governments to control the transnational activity of political opponents. 🤔
- my new article
journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699
Here, the hypothesis of political “utility”: the regime of obligatory passports enabled governments to control the transnational activity of political opponents. 🤔
- my new article
journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699
Abolir les passeports ? Les gouvernements contre l’opinion
Au 20e siècle, l’histoire de l’abolition des passeports est l’histoire d’un continuel atermoiement. En 1920, la « suppression totale des passeports » est reportée par la Société des n...
journals.openedition.org
December 6, 2023 at 7:47 AM
If the passport was such a useless vexation after WWI, why wasn’t it abolished?
Here, the hypothesis of political “utility”: the regime of obligatory passports enabled governments to control the transnational activity of political opponents. 🤔
- my new article
journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699
Here, the hypothesis of political “utility”: the regime of obligatory passports enabled governments to control the transnational activity of political opponents. 🤔
- my new article
journals.openedition.org/chrhc/22699
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Cambridge University Press has now reactivated #FreeAccess to "Varieties of Nationalism" until the 6th October! check it out👇
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
September 28, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Cambridge University Press has now reactivated #FreeAccess to "Varieties of Nationalism" until the 6th October! check it out👇
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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One has to work hard to build visibility here. So I thought I'd share a recent publication, an introduction to our special issue at ERH with Vedran Duančić, entitled Eager to (let) know: knowledge production and dissemination in state socialist Eastern Europe.🗃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 26, 2023 at 4:17 PM
One has to work hard to build visibility here. So I thought I'd share a recent publication, an introduction to our special issue at ERH with Vedran Duančić, entitled Eager to (let) know: knowledge production and dissemination in state socialist Eastern Europe.🗃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....