Susie Colbourn
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Susie Colbourn
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Historian at Duke. Archive enthusiast. Still writing about NATO and the politics of postwar European security.
7 penalties already and we’re still in the 2nd. Yeesh.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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See, this bugs me enough that I can't get my subjects and verbs to agree!
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I will never not be worked up about this issue.

How can we expect anyone to write Canadian history if the government makes it so hard to access records about that past?
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I do need an excuse to write about the history of hedgehogs as the NATO mascot.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m also delighted to learn about Boris the boar mascot.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It’s also not as if it is widely seen as an asset or even a net neutral. In plenty of places, a PhD on your resume is viewed as a negative!

Big surprise: specialization makes you look specialized!
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
One of my preferred ways to start to fill in the blanks when Canadian material is woefully thin!
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
History teaches us [insert thing I already believe].
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM