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Assist Prof of History @Swarthmore studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd

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Elise A. Mitchell

8 months

My heart is full of gratitude and my head is full of anxieties... My latest article "Across the Atlantic" was released in Atlantic Studies today. It is open access thanks to Princeton's Open Access Fund.

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Across the Atlantic: morbidity, geography, and the eighteenth-century French Atlantic slave trade

In 1765, enslaved Africans boarded the Roi Guinguin in Badagry as part of a restitution agreement between a Nantesian slave trading company and an African ruler. These captive Africans endured trea...

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

The historian in me had to say this publicly:

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

My one 2024 election hot take: Biden won't win. Not in the least because young people probably won't vote for him after (gestures at world and specifically genocide) all this. But, even more so they won't electorally organize him. Hear me out.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

In light of events unfolding across our campuses, I think folks who are (or soon to be) tenured and tenure-track faculty would all do well to remember that many of our jobs are the result of hard-won battles between students and university/college administrations.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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I got my Ph.D. at 29. I didn't take any time off between college and graduate school. And I don't regret it at all...

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

We are nothing without our students. Nothing.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

It is not lost on me that many of the professors I have had and many of the professors I admire hold jobs in tenure lines, departments, and centers created in the 1960s and 1970s as the result of student movements.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

Knowing there was a shortage of article reviewers during and after 2020, I decided to say yes to every article review request I felt qualified to do. I've now reviewed nearly a dozen and have some random insights to share, mostly for grad students and early career folks.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

Given my position, as someone who has benefitted tremendously from academic programs created as a result of student movements - up to and including my future employment, it would be hypocritical not to support student activists right now.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

It is not lost on me that student movements in the 1960s, made the position that I will start in the fall possible. Prior to their actions, there were few if any Black faculty at Swarthmore and no Black Studies programming.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

As a historian whose work intersects with Ethnic and Gender Studies, I am disappointed by the careerism that has rendered some faculty of color and faculty in Ethnic and Gender Studies silent, given the history of our fields and the history of our positions.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

The same students and young people organizing for Gaza are the same kinds of people who have the energy, drive, and discipline to do electoral organizing. In some cases, it's literally the same folks. Were there any worthy candidate they'd be organizing for them.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

From Rafah to Columbia and Columbia to Rafah may everyone be safe tonight. My God. Keep them safe.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Not only because young people won't vote for him, but also because young people, activists, and organizers (you know the people he sicced the cops on last week) won't organize for someone who treats them like an enemy. That means a whole lot of older folks won't get to the polls.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

I'm calling it now. Brace yourselves for Biden's loss. And stop treating young people, activists, and organizers like trash because they are one strain of hope in a post-Biden US and in a world that desperately needs peace.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Also don't tell these young principled people how to vote whilst finger wagging. They are adults just like you and can choose to do what they want. And they have a great point. If you want to see him re-elected despite this (gestures at world), you organize for him this time.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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There were enslaved and free Black people in places that now comprise the U.S. before 1619. Everyone should know this, especially historians of Black America.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Before you die hard Dems and liberals jump down my throat, how many people have YOU ever registered to vote? How many did you register during the pandemic? Do you EVEN help your family and friends devise voting plans? My guess is you don't - that's typical for talkative Dems.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 months

I will not be using AI in the classroom. I will be strongly discouraging my students from using it. I have environmental concerns about the massive water and cooling needs of AI. I plan to make my students aware of its environmental impact as well.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Biden is going to lose.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Quite frankly, I no longer have the capacity (much less the will) to do electoral organizing for Biden. Doing so took a huge toll on my mental health. I'm in my 30s now, I have too many responsibilities to take on doing that work at this time.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 years

I love footnotes. I’m an excessive footnoter. The notes are where all the conversation happens, where all the tea gets spilled - all the pedagogy, all the remixing, and all the politics- where folks get called in or called out. I’m learning to love hyperlinks for similar reasons.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

If you put Dr. before my initials, it spells "Dream." I think that's pretty sweet. Glad to be "phinished." Grateful for all the support and generosity from so many folks in my life throughout this process. More good news to come.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Around this time in 2020, I was in my late 20s and I was a volunteer dispatcher for mutual aid in my community. I'd call and email etc. with a script to help connect my neighbors to services (vaccines, groceries, internet, cable, phone, mortgage assistance etc).

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Elise A. Mitchell

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As the election approached, we were asked if we would like to volunteer to do electoral organizing. We were not affiliated with the Biden campaign, but together we registered thousands of folks to vote. Remember, Biden won PA by a few thousand votes.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

I just found out about Grammarly's updates re: slavery terminology. I'm kinda annoyed... Twitter is an ok place to be a little annoyed, right?

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Just got the exciting news I'll be teaching my new course "Healing in the Black Atlantic" next semester at Princeton. :)

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Elise A. Mitchell

1 year

Meet the Black, Gay Couple Preserving Harriet Tubman’s Ancestral Land via @them

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Meet the Black, Gay Partners Preserving Harriet Tubman’s Ancestral Land

The subjects of “The Aunties,” a forthcoming short film, share their origin story and why we must consider the fullness of the legendary abolitionist’s life.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Other folks (who were less at risk of covid) knocked on doors and had registration drives. Election day, I was on the phone and computer all day helping organize rides to the polls.

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Elise A. Mitchell

1 year

I’ve been quietly telling a few folks, but I think it’s safe to share here now: I accepted a tenure-track job in the History Department @swarthmore . I will join them in 2024 after completing a year-long @ACLS1919 fellowship @PrincetonHist

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Most of the people I worked with including our head organizers were younger than me "back then."

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 years

Young Black voters showed up and organized for your Blue wave, are you supporting their calls for police abolition? prison abolition? free healthcare (during a global pandemic)? rent control? Asking for several friends.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

Cities criminalize houselessness and the Supreme Court upheld it like a week ago, right. Today, I'm out for a walk in my neighborhood, after time away, working on my book, and general busyness. I see an unhoused neighbor (she's my neighbor even if she doesn't have a house).

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

I never thought I would have to email my employer, Princeton, to ask them to drop the disciplinary and CRIMINAL charges against my former student. (An A+ student. Not that it matters.) I hate all this repression. I hate how it feels. I hate what it’s doing to campus culture.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 months

Me opening a can of worms again: As a person who lives in the Northeast and works at a university and now a college, I experience more frequent and casual anti-Blackness from people who vote for Dems.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

But, individually, we can conquer imposter syndrome - because people are really out here submitting first drafts. Don't do that. But, don't pursue perfection either. A lot of revising happens between acceptance and publication. Perfect is the worst enemy of good enough.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

7. The work we have cut out for us is not cleaning up white male tenured scholars' messes, but rather a much more radical and transformative project: re-envisioning what history is, its methods, and its uses in a time when reckoning with history could not be more urgent.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

I know I’m supposed to be ignoring it… but it’s bugging me. I’m going to choose violence and say Inside Higher Ed is complicit in that author’s racist charade BECAUSE they let the author publish anonymously.

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Elise A. Mitchell

6 months

Many folks have tweeted this: Given the level of repression, please stop posting and don't post photos from the encampments and protests that include students' and other activists' faces. I lived in Philly in 2020 and... people are in jail now over some photos... don't do it.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

Again, Biden losing is a likelihood because Dems don’t do enough electoral organizing (good on those few who do, most don’t!) AND the Dems have totally alienated an important part of their electorate. By failing in these ways, the Dems paved the way for Biden’s loss. That’s all.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

The bar for revise and resubmit (rather than rejection) at many journals is much, much lower than most of today's grad students and early career folks think. This isn't the job market where unfortunately you have a shot in the dark. Publications need and want your articles.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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Please don't submit your very first draft, we can tell and it's annoying. But, you know, maybe you don't have to do 20 drafts to submit. Maybe 4 or 5 and careful proofreading is enough...

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Elise A. Mitchell

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People submit articles in all kinds of shape. I've seen typos, missing intros and conclusions, missing key citations, misused or inappropriate terminology, the list goes on... they get revise and resubmits. They listen to reviewer comments and get published.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

So, I agree with a lot of you. Indeed, Trump winning is scary and bad for most of us around the world. But some of you are acting as if by acknowledging the likelihood of a Biden loss, I’ve somehow single-handedly elected Trump president, when I just explained a likelihood.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

There’s a lot going on. I’m carving out time to read and reread Black feminists and feminists of color. I used to think it was stress reading. But I realize it’s steeling reading. Steel yourself however you can.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

So I finally read that thing in The Atlantic about our AHA president. I have thoughts...

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

The advice that you should spend your 20s "exploring" before grad school only applies to people with the economic and social privileges necessary for exploration. Sometimes grad school provides those privileges, sometimes not. Everyone's situation is different.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

These people U.S. cities and the Fed are criminalizing are our neighbors and community members. My partner and I know this woman, she knows what we do and gets hype about our news. She's a part of our community even though she doesn't have a home.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

Hi new followers, If we haven't met, I'm a history professor (excitedly) transitioning to a new job at Swarthmore. I study health, healing, and slavery in the pre-1800 Atlantic World, focusing on the Caribbean. I tweet about my work and the world.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

4. This whole thing is a missed opportunity to discuss austerity in academia. The decline in pre-1800 research topics is directly tied to that - decreased job opportunities and little support for research travel and paleography and language training.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

If white scholars and predominantly white historical associations were waiting for a “call in” re: AP Af Am - I’m calling you in NOW. Throw your weight around and get Black radical scholarship and Black Studies in the classroom.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

One way to beat the review process is to create, sign up for, or say yes to participating in workshops. Share the draft you plan to submit and get the feedback early so you can improve the piece before submission. Even if it's just sending it to a couple friends.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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If you're going on the market publications matter a lot. Submitting your work for review (rather than keeping it in progress) can be an important way to demonstrate your publication efforts, especially if you don't have anything else out yet.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

Foreman did everyone a favor by creating "Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help" so people can teach mini-lessons about how to talk about slavery because it is hard and there's a politics to it.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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It's just a perpetual thorn in my side as a historian who thinks it's crucial that we start Black American history with Ayiti-Kiskeya (Hispaniola) and Boriken (Puerto Rico) because that is where the first Black Americans were in the 1490s and 1510s. Our histories are shared.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

I finished my first full draft of my book, Morbid Geographies! It's going to need so, so many revisions but a draft is done! I'm not sure if I already shared this: It's under contract with @PennPress ! We have a long road ahead, but I'm so proud to have cleared this milestone!

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

All that said, I think, the realities of the uneven demands on time and the uneven distribution of resources among scholars are compounded by imposter syndrome among early career folks especially when they are non-white and not cis men.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

1. Isn't all scholarship political? It was scholars who first taught me that "another world is possible." That is nothing if not political. And also beautiful.

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The fact that an NYT project (that failed to account for places like Florida and Puerto Rico, where Black people were enslaved and free for more than a century before 1619) has had an outsized impact on how we understand Black history should be troubling.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

Telling people to change "fugitive slave" and "runaway" to "freedom seeker" doesn't make any sense.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

Most of us are closer to houselessness than mansions. As a collective, we have to do better by the unhoused. Sharing because I hope this story humanizes people for those who don't get it already. We shouldn't need stories like this, but we do.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

Ok, ok, let's get some things straight. Indeed, Dan David is life-altering money. But the conversations I'm seeing about these being "young" historians who "need a paycheck" and "all money is dirty" just don't hold water for me.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

I'm wary (and weary) of who gets to be an authority over the language we use to talk about our past and whose terms get adopted (or foisted upon us by the app I use to spell-check my emails).

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

We aren't always as radical as we think we are. We aren't always as radical as we aspire to be. Sometimes people will call us out to call us in. Sometimes they'll be fresh. Sometimes we get embarrassed. It's all part of the work.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

I just spoke to a room of Black and Latina women applying to grad school. Many of them are applying to history programs. And I can tell you, the future of our field is bright. Very bright. 🥹

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Thanks to the @caribbean_dsc microgrant program, "Smallpox and Slavery: A Digital History" will be in the world next year! The @caribbean_dsc generous funding will enable me to publish my database of smallpox outbreaks with maps! More soon!

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

Not only is criminalizing sleeping in public ridiculous and cruel. It also has the potential to further tear communities like mine apart, urban Black neighborhoods with mixed classes and mixed needs.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't think we can automate this.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

We've got to band together to address the structural realities that make it easier for some scholars to submit work and harder for others.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Honored and delighted that my WMQ article, “Morbid Crossings: Surviving Smallpox, Maritime Quarantine, and the Gendered Geography of the Early Eighteenth-Century Intra-Caribbean Slave Trade," is available for download: . #vastearlyamerica #histmed @OIEAHC

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

As someone from a low income background dealing with multiple family crises at the time, I think many would've discouraged me from going to graduate school at that time with the burdens I had.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

Being affiliated with a grad institution had tremendous privileges - a little money, time, health insurance, travel opportunities, access to libraries and arts and culture, networking opportunities...

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Elise A. Mitchell

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Yea, I'm gonna step in it and open that can of worms today, because I've gotten push back (not at work thankfully!) about starting the narrative of Black American history and the history of slavery before 1619. In short, we've been out here for much longer, recognize.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Some days the research is more emotionally taxing than others… I literally just walked out of the archive because I couldn’t bear a source about enslaved peoples bodies after the middle passage any longer… sometimes it’s too much. Taking a break.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

I also worry about "enslaver" in place of "slave owner" (and I use enslaver often). I'm worried it can sometimes muddle the differences between chattel slavery and other forms of enslavement.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

Not everyone who fled was seeking "freedom." Some people sought temporary reprieve, the company of one another, or employment (often still in bondage) for example.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

If one is critiquing the emergence of racial capitalism "slave owner" is a bit more explicit about commodification and property.

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 months

Those privileges enabled me to preserve my health, travel, make art, and have a flexible schedule to attend to my family's needs. It also introduced me to people who have changed my life in amazing ways, who I would've never met otherwise.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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The white supremacist critiques of the 1619 project forced many of us into silence, for fears of our comments and critiques being misconstrued as rightwing vitriol. The reality is the project overlooks a crucial chapter in Black American history.

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Elise A. Mitchell

4 months

Idk just knowing about this ruling and seeing my neighbor today really got to me. I had a mixed bag of a day and had it all over my face, she was the first person to genuinely ask if I was ok.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Delighted and honored to be a part of this amazing cohort! Congrats to all!

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ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars:

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I was moved, because I actually wasn't ok in that moment. I was very stressed and upset about some stuff from the day, and it was all over my face. I lied, but I really did appreciate her asking.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

I can’t wait to start teaching “Healing in the Black Atlantic” @PrincetonHist in a couple of weeks!

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Elise A. Mitchell

3 years

Running away is not the only way to "seek freedom." The term "freedom" in the era of slavery always needs clarification.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

2. We will have monographs in the future, I promise. We will also have new ways of "doing history" and new modes of wordsmithing that we can't even imagine yet. I am eager and excited about those new platforms and the voices (new and familiar) that they will highlight.

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I spend a lot of time studying enslaved Africans who caught smallpox and how they survived. This is a thread about sick leave... 1/14

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At first, from a distance, she asked me for money. Then, when she saw it was me, she asked how I was doing and mentioned she hadn't seen me in a while. And then, she genuinely asked how I was doing and where I'd been.

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I was purposely quiet about a lot of my challenges because I knew it would lead some (not all, NOT ALL) faculty to discourage me or simply give up on me.

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5. This whole thing is a missed opportunity to discuss how Black trauma gets exploited by the entertainment industry and increasingly news media - which rather than representing the truth spoon-feeds Black Americans marketable lies, half-truths, and half-baked ideas.

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Elise A. Mitchell

1 year

The job market for history jobs is tight as ever. Wishing everyone luck and sharing a bit of advice as someone who went on the market twice in the past 3 years.

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2 months

I respect the critiques of the academic professional development industry - no it won't save us. That said, I've found many a journal article in 12-weeks guidebook, NCFDD training, and professor is in book/article to be a crucial part of how I've gotten this far. A thread:

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Furthermore, these terms have been developed and promoted by a small subset of the field. They haven't been fully (or enthusiastically) adopted by scholars whose work exceeds the study of slavery and is in conversation with Black Studies and African Diaspora history.

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Elise A. Mitchell

2 years

Delighted to share my new essay, "On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive" in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences.

On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive

In 1777, word spread along the Amazonian coast that the “cruel contagion of smallpox” was circulating in the Portuguese frontier captaincies of Grão-Pará and Maranhão.1 Rumor often announced the...

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America, and Earth as a whole, is so so ghetto right now 🎶 But we can't leave. We've got to stay and figure this BS out.

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Elise A. Mitchell

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Had I been working a regular job, I would've made more money and saved for retirement, but my life would have been entirely about work and a stressful family life, I wouldn't have enjoyed my 20s at all. I'd probably be quite sick from it all now.

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The end of the Ford Foundation Fellowship like the end of the IDRF deeply saddens me. The very structures that made my work possible are disappearing left and right.

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2 years

In light of a number of recent events and experiences, I am very very eager and interested in working with other historians of Blackness and gender outside the US context to better support each other.

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Ignoring that chapter is divisive because it implies a troubling sort exceptionalism and perpetuates the erasure and marginalization of the vibrant and devastating Black history of entanglements beyond the British empire.

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Elise A. Mitchell

5 months

I am so, so honored that the Association of Caribbean Historians decided to award my article, “Morbid Crossings,” one of the 2024 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prizes. Congrats to all the winners! Below is a link to my article.

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Elise A. Mitchell

7 months

As far as international women’s day goes: My mind is on Haitian women and girls, Palestinian women and girls, and women and girls around the world affected by US imperialism and militarization and ignored or tokenized by white capitalist feminists.

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