Dr. Rebecca Shrum

Director of Public History @IUILiberalArts. Living with #longcovid (August 2022).

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

Interested in how objects of the material world shape individual and group identities? Check out my book: In the Looking Glass (@JHUP, 2017) https://t.co/oPsxC93OsH I'm happy to zoom to a class/group! Reviews here: https://t.co/ljnURgqwVE #materialculture #twitterstorians

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

@yogastephy Thank you for doing this and for your presence here.

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

Our public history program is so well represented @NCPH this year! Thankful for the commitment of each of these public historians to the field! @IUILiberalArts #NCPH2025

[IU Indianapolis Public History Program @IUIPubHist]

Some of our students attended #NCPH2025 this week in Montréal, Canada! Kayley Schacht was awarded the Graduate Student Travel Award and presented alongside Hannah Brennan, Jessica Baloun, and Emma Donaghy. Monica Berg worked as a conference assistant. Congratulations, all!

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

@daniel_m_lavery I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Clarice Lispector two years after Silence of the Lambs premiered. I thought Clarice was a wayyy more popular name than it ever was.

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

@Roya_Khatiblou Indigo Girls!

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

I hope nobody heard me as I was running up that hill this morning saying out loud "wait for me, wait for me" to the sky. 😂I don't care anyway because it did indeed wait for me. Glastonbury Tor about 15 minutes before sunrise.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

It’s outrageous that Missouri is so close to executing Marcellus Williams. He was convicted at a trial where prosecutors intentionally struck at least one Black person from the jury pool. Witnesses were paid to point the finger at Marcellus. His DNA is not on the murder weapon.

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

@Cinnabon @AniseNot The way I just yelped with delight. Amazing work @cinnabon.

[Read Appalachia @ReadAppalachia]

The only elegy y’all need today.

[ACLU of Indiana @ACLUIndiana]

Protect trans youth.

[Dr. Rebecca Shrum @material_world]

@sstanes can you confirm? 🤣

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

It’s official:

Britain can’t believe how dark it is.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

[Volume on]
I’ve never before seen a starling murmuration like last night’s - just a couple of inches off the ground. Ace flying skills!

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

I’m suing the Louisiana Board of Pardons. The Board held a secret meeting on September 29th in an attempt to thwart clemency hearings for 56 Louisiana death row prisoners. The secret meeting occurred in violation of Louisiana’s Open Meetings Law. https://t.co/RJlquNQTtf

[Neil J. Young @NeilJYoung17]

I’m *thrilled* to share we have a cover for COMING OUT REPUBLICAN: A HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHT. Out in April 2024 from @UChicagoPress You can pre-order here: https://t.co/coWRZpWz5k

[Candice Crutchfield @whatcandicesays]

I am just a tired, tired girl, asking how in the world so many of y’all manage teaching + make progress on individual research projects + support others + perform departmental service +read for pleasure + maintain your wellbeing all within the same semester?

[Lost Women of Science @LostWomenofSci]

See this striking tintype portrait. @NMAAHC, which houses this photo, thinks this is probably Sarah Loguen Fraser, one of the first Black women to earn a medical license in the US. Hear her story in our latest episode.
https://t.co/B9Zo5QSGcM @sciam

[Jules Birkby @NowThenSunshine]

Bit embarrassed by how much I've just giggled at this...

[Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife]

Please remind yourself you *don't have to feel guilty* for not beginning a PhD program, quitting one, declining to apply for a job, resigning a position, or leaving your academic work behind completely.

Academic culture wants you to feel shame. Reject this. Live your life.