History at Fordham

Fordham University History Department: news from our historians, students, and posts related to history.

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

The Jewish Book Council awarded @FordhamNYC's Prof. Magda Teter's book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic Myth Libel, the prestigious JDC-Herbert Katzki Award. https://t.co/ZkmThZ8636
@jewish_studies @FordhamJS @MagdaTeter. Read more: https://t.co/mAq9sJumwN

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

Interested in learning about medieval marriage practices and law? Check out Wolfgang Müller's new book, 'Marriage Litigation in the Western Church'! Listen to his interview with New Books Network to hear more about it: https://t.co/qf14dPbzP8

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

Congratulations to @SElizabethPenry who has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the @AmPhilSociety! The grant will be used to support her new research project titled “The Italian Renaissance in Diaspora: Jesuit Education and Indigenous Modernities.”

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
Fordham History is currently welcoming applications for Assistant Professor in the history of modern South Asia. Application details in link: https://t.co/Br7QJyG1np #HistoryJobs #academicjobs #AcademicTwitter

[SchomburgCenter @SchomburgCenter]

#HappyHeavenlyBirthday to #JamesBaldwin who was born #onthisday in 1924. The #SchomburgCenter is home to the James Baldwin Papers, which include his manuscripts, poetry, and letters. Learn more about our collection.
https://t.co/FCzSPtyvLf

[The Journal of African History @JAH_editors]

In the new JAH, @NanaOseiOpare shows how #workers in postcolonial #Ghana used petitions to protest workplace abuses, corruption, and low wages — and to assert the importance of their #labor to Kwame Nkrumah's nation-building project. #laborhistory https://t.co/0Y5GLPHARy

[Fordham University @FordhamNYC]

Rafael Zapata, Fordham’s chief diversity officer, said he was humbled to be recognized by an organization that trains social workers to serve New York’s “complex, ever-evolving, yet consistently misunderstood Latinx community.” https://t.co/u278oJ9Pvx

[Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham @FordhamJS]

If you missed this conversation about images and dangerous rhetoric @GettyMuseum with @FordhamNYC @FordhamHistory Magda Teter, @sliptonmedieval, @benkatchor and @BlakeGopnik you can watch it now:
https://t.co/aglIPa0Xi9

[Fordham University @FordhamNYC]

Asif Siddiqi is @FordhamHistory professor & the writer of several space books. He said it might be necessary to retire the term once hundreds if not thousands of people reach space. “Are we going to call each and every one of them astronauts?”https://t.co/LAslU4llQs via @VOANews

[Gina Vergel @ginavergel7]

"The 'working class' in NYC is no longer white- it consists of immigrants from all over the globe... This to whom Eric Adams is appealing. It is a winning formula when the majority of Black New Yorkers now come from West Africa & the West Indies." - @FordhamHistory's @McFiredogg

[The Journal of African History @JAH_editors]

Rejecting "postcolonial African archival pessimism," @NanaOseiOpare examines workers' petitions and letters of complaint, found in #Ghana's local archives, to "reclaim the voices of nonelite Africans in relation to their employers and the state." https://t.co/0Y5GLPpZsY

[ICHS @historians_ie]

Panel 2) Beyond the Pale @historians_ie chair Steven Ellis @historyatgalway Neil Murphy @NorthumbriaUni Chris Maginn @FordhamHistory @3Historians #33ICH

[Nana Osei-Opare @NanaOseiOpare]

I am so excited to read, engage w/, & assign pieces of CSSAAME's new issue, 'the Africa-Soviet Modern.' Brilliant scholars such as my colleague @historyasif & others, Betty Banks, @DavignonRobyn, Andrew Ivaska, Steffi Marung, are featured. https://t.co/sa9Nu4UALq #AfricaSoviet

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

"The Problem of Difference: Corporate Histories from the Global South" by Mircea Raianu (Univ. of Maryland). Please join us for our last talk this year from O'Connell Initiative for the Global History of Capitalism, May 4th, 5:30: https://t.co/OFRidG8IQr https://t.co/jiieXqAwYv

[Gina Vergel @ginavergel7]

A great book to read abt this: “Feminism’s Forgotten Fight” by @kswinth, who teaches at @FordhamHistory: https://t.co/xpjBe5reny

[Fordham University @FordhamNYC]

The latest by @FordhamHistory's Saul Cornell: "What is the scope of the Second Amendment right to bear arms outside of the home?" https://t.co/w3CK7ErZwZ via @Slate

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

@FordhamNYC

[History at Fordham @FordhamHistory]

Congratulations! @FordhamUniversity's PhD candidate Glauco Schettini (@GlaucoSchettini) receives the Farrar Memorial Award of the Society for French Historical Studies (@thesfhs)

[Fordham University @FordhamNYC]

The University will require all students to be vaccinated by the opening of the fall semester, and the University expects that all faculty, staff, and administrators likewise be fully vaccinated on or before the beginning of the fall semester. Read more: https://t.co/hMNCSvl20w

[Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham @FordhamJS]

Coming up @GettyMuseum: Our own Magda Teter of @FordhamHistory @FordhamJS @FordhamNYC with @sliptonmedieval of @stonybrooku, @benkatchor and @BlakeGopnik will discuss "Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today"
https://t.co/KK61qGNtfz

[The Kennan Institute @kennaninstitute]

For #CosmonauticsDay, @historyasif curated & annotated declassified documents about Yuri Gagarin, the 1st Soviet cosmonaut to travel to #space! @CWIHP

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https://t.co/gO0CwreANB