@meganrenoir
Historian of violence, Western property regimes, Native dispossession, and state development. PhD at Cambridge. Host of the Cambridge American History podcast @camericanist.bsky.social Recent pub: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/129/4/1567/7915265?l
Within academia alone, AI is deskilling our youth under the guise of 'free tools' (aka unpaid labour for AI training), forging dependence, stealing scholars' work, putting us out of jobs, and profiting from all of it. We are losing so much more than could ever be gained.
The episode in which @sheahendry.bsky.social and I convince Eliga Gould to promote our nonexistent 6-part podcast series on the Jay Treaty 😶🌫️🙌
From the archives: Elizabeth Ellis, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University, joined us in 2025 to talk about her book ‘The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South.’ Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
This was a great conversation--first podcast interview about my new book! Thanks @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Hugh Wood and Mia Bay!
In last week's podcast, my good friend Dr. Hugh Wood and I chat with @kathleenbelew.bsky.social about how fear, religious nationalism, and suburban isolation have normalised gun violence, and why children have come to occupy a tragic central place in America’s culture of mass shootings.
Three-year Mellon postdoc in American History at the University of Cambridge. Any subfield. Fast turn-around—application closes March 1.
Please spread widely.🗃️
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I use the CDNC *literally* daily for research that supports tribal sovereignty/rights claims.
This is such a vital resource with outsized impact for U.S. researchers, communities, history, etc etc etc.
Please, please, pleaseeee reshare and submit a comment!
I'd also like to say a huge thanks to @tim-bird.bsky.social for producing a stunning piece of art to accompany the research. I've been a fan of Tim's graphic novels for many years now, so it was amazing to collaborate with him on this illustration! I love it so much.
So proud of @princessquatris.bsky.social and his crew for this amazing publication, complete with artwork from graphic novelist @tim-bird.bsky.social!!
Highly recommend!
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Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉
We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time!
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Very excited to see our @historians.org article featured in the @ssrc.org monthly series, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science.
Doing research that bridges humanities and social science is both incredibly fun and (imo) the best way to test & refine theory and policy 🙌
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Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks. For many Indigenous communities, however, there is no equilibrium to which to return. This article explores how the federally unrecognized Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT) has developed a creative strategy of resilience beyond a return to “equilibrium” in the face of their almost complete erasure by genocide and the illegal termination of their sovereign rights by US state and federal government agencies. The NCRNT’s experience reveals how activities underlying Indigenous resilience include a need for historical redress and reconciliation, thereby creating a “new normal” that is reflective of Native history as well as the ongoing social, political, and economic realities of existing within a settler state. This article bridges history and development studies, revealing how both disciplines must learn from Indigenous groups seeking restorative justice. It further employs oral histories, artwork, and documentation from the newly created NCRN Tribal archive, and so is presented as an interactive digital article.
In @historians.org American Historical Review, @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Shelly Covert explore how the experiences of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, a federally unrecognized nation, highlight the importance of broadening conceptions of resilience.
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In 1850, California banned Indigenous burning practices.
74 years later, CA is suffering from the consequences.
Climate resilience is possible when we reckon with history.
See our 2023 report on #CAwildfires + #climateresilience + #Indigenousrights 👇
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Read this online for the audio and video oral history components
It is finally here! Eighty years ago, Felix Cohen crafted the first "bible" of Federal Indian Law. I long dreamed of contributing to a rare revision. Today that dream is realized: 100 pages marrying constitutional law with Indian law (mostly structural, also rights), clarifying both.
In “History on the Lost Coast,” Kathleen C. Whiteley shows how historians can use a resilience framework to highlight Indigenous agency, spotlighting the Wiyot Nation’s reclamation in 2019 of over 200 acres on Northern California’s Tuluwat Island, the site of an 1860 catastrophic massacre. 🗃️
@meganrenoir.bsky.social & Shelly Covert’s “Recognition as Resilience” features the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT), a nation not federally recognized, and how their resilience creates a “new normal” that reflects tribal self-determination. 🗃️
Read and share this 👇 #skystorians #academicsky
Megan Renoir (my first PhD advisee!!!) and Shelly Covert in the American Historical Review on what int’l development studies can learn from one Native nation’s pursuit of restorative justice after the California genocide
The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️
I’m proud to share the news that my article, “Recognition as Resilience,” was recently published in the inaugural special issue of the American Historical Review.
It’s now available to read here: t.co/mb0OhFUoCF
@camhistory.bsky.social @historians.org
Resilience was the buzzword of 2024. But what does it mean? How do historians think about it? How can the concept, employed with specificity, expand our understandings of the past?
Very excited to share the latest issue of the AHR--two years in the making. Check it out. 👇
