My new podcast interview on 'Publicity Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Birth of Media Politics' on the SOCIAL MEDIA & POLITICS podcast series is available on: https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/media-history-politics-publicity-politicians-empire-european-political-communication/

It is also available on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jylwSJkA9CqkfWbhdPI3s

Many thanks to Michael Bossetta for hosting me on the show!

3 new vacancies in political history/philosophy/science in our department at Maastricht University:

Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year): https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-Disinformation-and-European-Democracy-%284-year%29/1347614857/

Assistant Professor in European Political History since 1900: https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Assistant-Professor-in-European-Political-History-since-1900/1333651157/

Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/356676/assistant-professor-in-political-and-social-philosophy/

Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested

My new book is now out in print:

POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE
Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/politicians-and-mass-media-in-the-age-of-empire/4C64E8C29EE661562883C62A8849FFF8

A short blog article about my research:

DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire

https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/democracy-expanded-or-eroded-publicity-politicians-and-the-transnational-media-politics-of-empire/

‘The Communication of Fame’, a chapter I wrote for our new book A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution, edited by Eva Giloi: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-fame-9781350072596/

If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊