Evan Haefeli

Historian of colonial Americas, traveler, language lover

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@keithdorejel I’ve been there. Fun place!

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@CitizenWald Jim, why are you so obsessed with this tattoo issue? Have you not paid any attention to everything else he’s said and done? Given everything else that’s going on in the country and the world, I just wonder what you are thinking here. He’s not SS. WWII was a long time ago

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@akbarjenkins You have! I remember

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@CitizenWald That was my Hampshire era, I remember Rich

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@CitizenWald I like the idea that part of the failure of Hampshire is that it successfully pioneered the transformation of higher education, so it became less unique over time

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@hannahgais @Tyler_A_Harper Condolences from a fellow Hampster

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@centristmarxist @Tyler_A_Harper My Alma mater too😢

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@samhaselby Yes, at this point a good old fashioned king would be preferable to what the presidency has become

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@daniel_dsj2110 Sorry to jump on you. I just happen to be writing a conference paper more or less right in this topic as we speak!

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@daniel_dsj2110 Yeah, but we’re just adopting a longstanding European tradition, like He—-th and his Crusader tattoos. I think the difference is the lack of a strong national identity/bond apart from the religious references makes it look more extreme

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@daniel_dsj2110 Also, you let the empires off the hook by blaming the colonists. We were just following their example

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

@_CLancellotti As if on cue (published today).... perhaps of interest https://t.co/ePffmh6D4L

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@samhaselby @_CLancellotti Thanks! A useful overview of Mignolo’s life and career, especially welcome to those of use who had to read him in grad school but couldn’t figure out what to do with it

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@samhaselby Nice headgear

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

A great piece on the silliness that’s been happening at the place I’ve been teaching for the last ten years, with a great capsule history of the university as a modernizing institution fueled by new traditions

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

Can't recommend enough this piece from @cd_hooks on the madness at Texas A&M. I'm proud to work at a place that still publishes some truly great magazine journalism.

https://t.co/RUdKt9jkob

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

Bracing, unsettling, but seems to capture the global moment well

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

John Gray: “The actual interregnum was the American-led order. Destined to be transient, it shortened its lifespan by overreaching…
Today, what remains of the liberal West is being dismantled by its former hegemon.” https://t.co/emvSyjxX00

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

it’s cliché, but i’m thrilled to see this excerpt from my essay on close reading in the new @Harpers

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@daniel_dsj2110 @samhaselby Converts can sometimes aspire to some of the worst anti-Catholic stereotypes. This could well have been the case with James II of England as well

[Evan Haefeli @EvanHaefeli]

@BenSManning @samhaselby @metrics52 I think it also represents the growth of nepo-academics. So many academics being children of academics, do it is, basically, the family business