Historian & educator. Asst. Professor @RowanUniversity. History PhD @Princeton. Formerly @chnm. Digital public history & history of Mexico. (she/her)
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2008
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Who lived and worked in Pedregal before Ciudad Universitaria was built?
In my new article in @HAHR21 I trace the expropriation of four ejidos to build CU using documents from the agrarian archive and letters from the displaced ejidatarios themselves: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/art…
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NACLA seeks a NYC-based undergraduate or graduate student to support an archival and public history project!
Image: José Chávez Morado's mural "La ciencia y el trabajo" on the lower level of Torre II de Humanidades (then Torre de Ciencias)
Muchas gracias to @Sarahidalgo @RAKarl @RowanUniversity @edelmancollege @AGA_Mexico @ahunam_difusion @AGNMex @chnm @HistArthGMU @Princeton @PrincetonPLAS and many others for supporting this research and offering valuable feedback.
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In the newest HAHR from @DukePress, Jessica R. Mack reconstructs the expropriation of four ejidos to build the Ciudad Universitaria of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the displacement of ejidatarios, and their struggle for legal compensation. doi.org/10.1215/00182168-123…
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Out today, a special issue of the Journal of Urban History I co-edited with Ernesto Capello! "Capital Cities of Latin America: New Approaches and Scales" includes a co-written introduction and four articles. 1/4
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Our new special section of the Journal of Urban History is now online—
Capital Cities of Latin America: New Approaches and Scales: journals.sagepub.com/toc/juh…
Many thanks to editors Ernie Capello, @JoshSavala & the authors for fascinating discussions about urban plans + imaginaries.
How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built?
¿Cómo se imaginaba la Ciudad Universitaria de México antes de que se construyera?
I wrote about unbuilt plans for CU in the Journal of Urban History (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built?
¿Cómo se imaginaba la Ciudad Universitaria de México antes de que se construyera?
I wrote about unbuilt plans for CU in the Journal of Urban History (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Varias investigadoras e investigadores del CIDE firmamos hoy este comunicado contra los aranceles de Trump, recordando el enorme trabajo de investigación que ha hecho nuestra comunidad académica en temas que hoy son sumamente relevantes. drive.google.com/file/d/17hz…
Today is Rowan’s Day of Giving! Please consider donating to our Center for Digital Humanities Research or another one of our great Humanities and Social Sciences programs! dayofgiving.rowan.edu/giving…
Happy Day of Giving! 🦉 A gift to the CHSS supports a wide range of cutting-edge curricula, scholarships and fellowships, faculty research, and more. Visit go.rowan.edu/chssdayofgiving to donate!
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This Thursday, February 22nd is Rowan's Day of Giving! Consider making a gift to support our Center for Digital Humanities. To donate, or to learn more, click the link: dayofgiving.rowan.edu/giving…
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Delighted that #DouglassDay at Rowan was a success! Impressive and moving to see 100+ students so focused on caring for Douglass’s letters.
One of many future crowdsourced digital public history events!
@RowanUniversity @RowanCHSS
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More than 100 students, faculty and staff took part in our second annual Douglass Day, a nationwide transcribe-a-thon for letters to abolitionist, orator, statesman and journalist Frederick Douglass. today.rowan.edu/news/2024/02…
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Proud of the history dept. @RowanUniversity, esp. @jrobinmack, for a wildly successful Douglas Day transcribe-a-thon. @CBSPhiladelphia: 'Douglass Day' at New Jersey's Rowan University helps students learn, preserve Black history" cbsnews.com/philadelphia/new…
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Watch Hassan El-Amin's incredible performance of Douglass' "Why Hold a Colored Convention?" speech with closed captioning here: youtube.com/watch?v=brhHmTax…
#DouglassDay at @RowanUniversity was a success! The grand finale was this incredible cake from Kreamies Bakery in Bellmawr, New Jersey!
@DouglassDayorg
