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My alma mater in Brazil, the University of São Paulo, is doing a search on Asian History. If you, or someone you know, are interested in living in a cosmopolitan big city and teaching at the best university in Latin America, follow the link to the job ad:
Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and I wrote a short piece on insects, place/space, and science for the Isis journal.
I am honored to have my research featured on the National Humanities Center website alongside so many interesting projects!
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-city-town-village/#freitas
The History department at NC State is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in the history of the ancient Mediterranean world. Review of applications begins October 1, 2023. Please spread the word.
The Department of History at North Carolina State University invites applicants for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Ancient Mediterranean World, beginning August 2024. We seek to identify a candidate who has strong promise as a scholar and teacher and whose research engages with the period from c. 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Candidates who can contribute to our departmental strengths in digital humanities and public history and ongoing departmental conversations about topics of contemporary historical concern – for example, race, ethnic & religious identities, gender, sexuality, slavery, social justice, empire, colonialism, migration, and global connections – are particularly encouraged to apply.The successful candidate will teach an introductory survey course on the Ancient Mediterranean World, propose and teach upper-level courses in their areas of expertise, and share in the teaching of core courses in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The successful candidate may supervise undergraduate honors and MA theses in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, and other areas of the Ancient Mediterranean World. They may also work with MA and PhD students in the department’s Public History program.
Claudia Leal, Emily Wakild, and I will give another workshop on incorporating Latin America into teaching environmental history at the ASEH Meeting in Denver, CO, Apr 2024.
RECSLAC is offering fellowships to attend the workshop.
Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo0jdo_pyg3ID2uIT3E2g955njcAyPRJ_DNkGSjlCRbODEUw/viewform
It is official now! I will be a National Humanities Center fellow this coming academic year! I am very excited about the prospect of spending a year at the @natlhumanities
I will be working on my second book project on the environmental history of Brasília, Brazil's modernist capital, built in the 1950s.
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-humanities-center-announces-2023-24-fellows/
Fellowships for workshop on Latin American and Caribbean Environmental History at the HSS Conference in Portland, OR, Nov 2023.
Bolsas para oficina de história ambiental da América Latina e do Caribe na Conferência da HSS em Portland, Oregon (EUA) em Nov 2023.
Becas para taller de historia ambiental de la América Latina y Caribe en el Congreso de la HSS en Portland, Oregon (EE. UU.) en Nov 2023.
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ANN: Incorporating Latin America and the Caribbean into Teaching in Environmental History https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/discussions/12577878/call-applicants-incorporating-latin-america-and-caribbean
I am very happy that my book was the winner of the Warren Dean Memorial Prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) as the most significant work on the history of Brazil in 2022.
I am going to the AHA, leaving tomorrow. I am taking a train (first time riding #amtrak), and I am happy that I am not starting the year flying. 🚉📚
Happy to see "Characterizing the perception of urban spaces from visual analytics of street‑level imagery" out on AI & Society.
From research on using computer vision to assess urban change carried out at the Visual Narrative cluster at NC State.
