Hampton Smith

writing: “making against slavery: artisanry, capitalism, and the material history of abolition in the U.S., 1791-1902”

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

Hi all: My latest article, "Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts" is now published and freely available at Journal18.

https://t.co/3clhN8Yqs8

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

Hi all: My latest article, "Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts" is now published and freely available at Journal18.

https://t.co/3clhN8Yqs8

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

How many times did your dissertation change over the course of writing/researching? Its supposed to change, right? Right?

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

book/print history folks: what are your favorite texts on the environmental/material/political history of paper (specifically 20th century paper from trees)?

[Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns1]

Come celebrate Black History Month at the Black Philadelphia conference February 20- 22 in Philadelphia! https://t.co/2wniRcw7eQ

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

@afroartnerd Sheldon Scott on the cover — amazing choice

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

best art history / material culture stuff you read this year? In urgent need of inspiration.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

and, another fave, Joe Minter’s Four Hundred Years of Free Labor, 1995.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

Hi all: My latest article, "Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts" is now published and freely available at Journal18.

https://t.co/3clhN8Yqs8

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

please share widely! that this piece passed peer review in an art history journal matters tremendously, but it is my naive hope it speaks to the varying fields that have nourished my intellectual and political growth over the years.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

continuing this thread w/ some contemporary inspirations:

Allison Saar, Reaper, 2021.

enslaved women with tools raised as possible weapons.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

Here now ?

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

My review of Matthew Rarey's Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic is out! It is anything but insignificant. If you're in slavery studies and/or Black studies, this is a must read.

https://t.co/RP1eH4eqbB

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

and we should all be thinking about how the south has always been a extractive resource, left underdeveloped and vulnerable.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

@_p_antonio they will say cut half ❤️

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

this is my dissertation. the material know-how required for change!!

[Rachel Edwards @underthenettle]

TIL: French unions have designed special barbecues that fit in tram tracks, so they can grill sausages while they march.

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

Apply! Blessed to be a current Mellon dissertation fellow—also, folks in Philadelphia, let’s connect!

[Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns1]

As Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Phila, I am happy to announce the many fellowships we offer, especially those for undergrads! We have an internship and a Mellon Summer Program for undergrads. Please pass along to your students and colleagues. Thank you! https://t.co/4Cld2yyunE

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

this is what my students think art history is…(all correct)

[veracity smoak @allank_o]

mit finds that despite all efforts to recruit and offer financial aid to disadvantaged and low-income applicants in non-race-based ways, there are now fewer black first-years enrolling at mit than in ... 1982

[Hampton Smith @hampton_smith1]

If you’re at @SHEARites, please think about coming to this amazing panel. Now co-moderated by @CulturedModesty