Cresa Pugh
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Assistant professor of sociology @TheNewSchool researching British empire, museums, reparations, and violence. she/her
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our director of graduate studies signed The Letter but we can't express concern to their boss (our dept chair) bc the dept chair is the dgs's spouse, and we can't express concern to the dept chair's boss (our dean) bc our dean's spouse signed The Letter
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If The New School does not come to the table with our encampment to negotiate our demands I WILL RESIGN
About 20 students and faculty are sitting on the ground, refusing the vehicle to move until the student is released. A student holds a sign in front of their face “Free Palestine - You Can’t Arrest Truth - Stop Divest From Denial”
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Thrilled to be joining
@TheNewSchool
sociology department as an assistant professor this fall! It's a real dream come true to have the opportunity to work alongside such critical, innovative and socially conscious faculty and students for many years to come.
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Ecstatic and humbled to announce that I’m officially Dr. Pugh. It’s the strength of my community, this community, that’s delivered me here. Extending gratitude 🤲🏾
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@Jeremy_Levine
Wow no I hadn't noticed that. I'm resigned to spending the rest of my evening constructing an H org chart of interpersonal relations of power
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LET GAZA LIVE (but also please
@NYPDnews
let my puppy live without pepper spray in her eyes)
And
@CresaPugh
held it down, with her puppy in goggles, mascot of the encampment hence forth!!
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I think this is less an indictment of their scholarship and more an indictment of the distance bt their personal investments and their scholarship. Scholars of inequality love studying injustice but are rarely invested in fixing it bc of the personal sacrifices that would entail
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To all my haters who think I’m a dog abuser for bringing Juanita to the encampment, just know we were in good company with Amy Goodman of
@democracynow
and her dog 🖤🐾
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The long commute to the office (the New School faculty encampment). Juanita says FREE! FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸
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All the Karens more worried about my dog Juanita than the children of Rafah
@MarlaTauscher
@CresaPugh
@democracynow
I seriously would never even consider it. I love my dog and I’m a responsible owner.
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Never thought I’d be using my camping gear in Lower Manhattan 🥰🥰
We’re so back… autonomous New School faculty, in support of our students and their demands, the first faculty solidarity encampment in the nation, named after Refaat Alareer ♥️…
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THE HONOR WAS ALL THEIRS 🇵🇸
About 20 students and faculty are sitting on the ground, refusing the vehicle to move until the student is released. A student holds a sign in front of their face “Free Palestine - You Can’t Arrest Truth - Stop Divest From Denial”
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To all my haters who think I’m a dog abuser for bringing Juanita to the encampment, just know we were in good company with Amy Goodman of
@democracynow
and her dog 🖤🐾
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The long commute back home after a day at the office (The New School faculty encampment) putting in hours of labor (barking at cops and Zionists)
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Loving the fact that the Association of Black Sociologists and the Animal Behavior Society are having their annual meetings simultaneously and are both using
#abs2018
, creating a dope mashup of tweets about white supremacy and arachnids
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Now THIS is what we call escalation *whispers to the folks in the back who only turned their backs to Biden so that they could still receive their degrees amidst the pomp & circumstance 👀*
BREAKING: Hundreds of Harvard students and faculty have walked out of commencement in support of Palestine and the 15 seniors having their degrees withheld for protesting a genocide.
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The only thing that softens the blow of having a narwhal as our mascot is that they’re pro-Palestinian 🥰
crying at the new school narwhal mascot being escorted out of grad
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enamored with this photo of a statue of louis agassiz, father of modern biological racism, toppled from the stanford zoology building after a 1906 earthquake
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A true honor for me. I’ve been an Amy Goodman fan since I was a teenager and seeing her walk toward me with Zazu and her microphone in hand healed this angry, broken heart 🕊️
Amy Goodman and Zazu Goodpup, two newshounds springing into action!
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Beloved, let me explain how language works—l’d resign IF admin didn’t come to the table—they have. Thus I won’t be resigning right now. Again, if there’s anything that you’re ever having a difficult time comprehending, like language, I’m here to help—I am a professor after all
@Coffeeandbeans1
@CresaPugh
She's a coward, hasn't resigned yet, too scared that no one else would hire a racist agitator. She's right.
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If you were half as concerned about the children in Gaza as you are about Juanita PALESTINE WOULD BE FREE (FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA)
@CresaPugh
@democracynow
These are terrible situations for dogs. There is no legitimate reason to bring a dog to a protest, especially where there is a risk of violence. You're needlessly subjecting your dog to unnecessary stress. It doesn't matter if someone else does it.
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For the record I would never "bring my dog" to a protest--we were at the encampment, asked some questions, then were surrounded, thanks so much for asking
@realchrisrufo
MUAH 😘
LET GAZA LIVE (but also please
@NYPDnews
let my puppy live without pepper spray in her eyes)
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Surreal to wake up this morning and tune into
@democracynow
(as I have every morning for the last 3 decades) and hear myself poorly spelling my own name to Amy Goodman but nailing my dog Juanita's name 🐾
Amy Goodman and Zazu Goodpup, two newshounds springing into action!
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Honored to have not been elected to the
@ASAnews
Comparative-Historical Section Council despite campaigning and running unopposed.
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Gratitude to
@TheNewSchool
for, despite some initial challenges, continuing to bargain in good faith for
#divestment
, particularly
@DonnaShalala
@aaleinikoff
@reneetwhite
@EugeneLang
Dean Christopher Cox and TNS trustees and Investment Committee. Onward, colleagues
#FreePalestine
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I would say
@motorresx
should be the next president of
@Harvard
but we don’t deserve him
Harvard students have been doxxed and harassed in recent weeks for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza. President Claudine Gay has not protected these students but today she emailed the campus to "condemn" the phrase "from the river to the sea." Here is my reply:
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Excited that my article "Relational Reparations: On the Promise of Post-National Repair" is now out in
@PostcolonialIn1
as part of the Rethinking Postcolonial Europe special issue. Huge thanks to
@theresa_krampe
, Nadia Butt, and Robert Clark for editing
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I absolutely hate Zionism and absolutely adore my Jewish students (and they equally adore me)—my Cashapp is $cresapugh if you also want to send me $55k thanks babe 😘
@CresaPugh
@democracynow
What’s your explanation for posting this 20+ times and threatening to quit because you hate Zionism so much? Imagine paying $55k a year to attend
@TheNewSchool
and being a Jew in your class. Or anyone in your class, if this is how you behave.
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If The New School does not come to the table with our encampment to negotiate our demands I WILL RESIGN
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ON AIR LIVE with China Global Television Network, the Chinese Communist Party’s official news network 🇨🇳🔨🌙❤️🖤💚🤍
Some 40 students were arrested and subsequently suspended from The New School for Social Research over pro-Palestinian protests and encampments. CGTN anchor Sally Ayhan spoke to Cresa Pugh, assistant professor of sociology at the university. She was at the encampment.
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With gratitude to
@HarvardWCFIA
for helping bring a visual element to my research, and to
@peter1murphy
and
@festac77archive
for such wonderful images
New on Epicenter: Looted more than a century ago by the British, 1000's of sculptures from Benin Kingdom reside in Western museums, though Nigeria has long wanted them back.
@CresaPugh
uses vivid imagery to tell the story of the Benin Bronzes.
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Happy to share a short (open source) piece I wrote for Migration Studies which considers the utility of examining looted artifacts through a migration framework:
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sickening that it's come to this but blown away by the courage
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Surreal to wake up this morning and tune into
@democracynow
(as I have every morning for the last 3 decades) and hear myself poorly spelling my own name to Amy Goodman but nailing my dog Juanita's name 🐾
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Some 40 students were arrested and subsequently suspended from The New School for Social Research over pro-Palestinian protests and encampments. CGTN anchor Sally Ayhan spoke to Cresa Pugh, assistant professor of sociology at the university. She was at the encampment.
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I only accept this kind of feedback from Gazans, not colonizers with names like Jonathan Reed ✌🏾
@CresaPugh
Salam alaykum.
Our Gazan brothers are not fans of your filthy dog. In Islam they are considered unclean (najis) when kept in your home as a pet.
Be more culturally sensitive for the sake of our glorious martyrs.
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SHOW ME YOUR DOGS WHO LONG FOR A FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🍉
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Many thanks to the editors and fellow contributors for this volume. Pleased to have a chapter included that explores presentism, Du Bois, and the role of moral conviction in our understanding of historical (re)construction
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I don’t usually post deeply personal content here, but I had an encounter today in the woods that I have no choice but to share
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I would have loved the opportunity to have you as a student, solidarity comrade ❤️
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@shamuskhan
Based on your recent tweets I’m convinced you’re doing an ethnography of elite water
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Been a nice week--I learned that two of my articles were published: "Cosmopolitan Repair: Reclaiming and Restoring Cultural Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria" in the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1/3
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It’s the freelance for me, they’re like this won’t take long
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If you’ve never met a black person outside of Africa just say that boo. It’s alright to not understand everything, hugs
@brownisthecolor
@CresaPugh
I would but I can't stop laughing at your bio.
Tell me more about transnational blackness!
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NYC friends: we’re excited to have the amazing
@JonathanMetzl
join us next Thursday
@NSSRNews
for a talk about his new book What We’ve Become, which examines gun violence and mental illness in the US. Please join us!
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Big news from my forever ASA partner-in-crime
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining
@Stanford
as an Assistant Professor in the Management Science and Engineering Department in fall 2022!!
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Imagine being upset that people are learning about liberation
"Harvard online course catalog has a search box. Type in “decolonize.” That word is in the titles of 7 courses and the descriptions of 18 more. “Oppression” and “liberation” are in the descriptions of more than 80 courses. “Social justice” is in >100."
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Challenge accepted
@realchrisrufo
— you can come whisper sweet misogynoir melodies in my ear anytime 💋
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Harvard being absolutely silent on the Supreme Court rulings would almost lead one to believe they have a vested interest in this march toward fascism
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@socialistdogmom
@natashalennard
lmaoooo her name is JuanitA--the capital A stands for ACAB ;)
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And "'We Shall Be Telling our own Stories': Bernie Grant, the Africa Reparations Movement, and the Restitution of the Benin Bronzes" in Politique africaine 2/3
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Looking forward to being in conversation with
@InuaEllams
at the
@VeraListCenter
today!
What does corrective repair look and feel like in the postcolonial context?—Join us online for the first Correction* Seminar, Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin Bronzes, feat.
@CresaPugh
with poetry by
@InuaEllams
!
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Flaco being emancipated from the Central Park zoo on the first day of black history month?
@nytimes
hello?
Flaco didn't know it, but February 1, 2023 would be the last night he'd ever spend in his Central Park zoo enclosure. Thirteen years in a cage too small to fly in. The next night he'd leave the zoo and find himself on Fifth Avenue!
#Flaco
#CentralPark
📸
@prsyl
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a beautiful meditation on capitalism and spectacle. also now convinced that every podcast should reserve the final 6 minutes for quiet reflection
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@profdanhicks
I just finished
#BrutishMuseums
and was truly taken aback by how beautiful the prose are and how masterfully you construct the historiographical record. If my dissertation can have 1/10 of this effect I'd consider it a success.
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Never have I offended anyone more than just now when I asked someone getting their PhD in translation if they ever use Google translate
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Wonder if he ever stopped to consider why somebody might be “waging war” on white collar sports courts like pickleball that increasingly only serve the White Leisure Class while displacing Black/brown people in the nation’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of South Harlem
Nothing is funnier to me than middle-aged white men upset about pickleball courts & bike lanes. “Waging war??” while there’s a literal war on Palestinians happening? lmaooo
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One of the highlights of my 6 years here. Thank you
@HarvardWCFIA
and
@erezmanela
What a treat to have spent another year learning from the brilliant Grad Student Associates
@HarvardWCFIA
.
And to do it in person again! (with a zoom option, of course)
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ASA culture section: “Given exorbitant hotel food costs, we've decided to spend lightly on food and put more resources on drinks--we'll be handing out drink tickets to junior scholars" This is absolutely a trap, don't fall for it, junior scholar!
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So very excited about this one. Congratulations,
@clepsydras
🤎
The introduction and the acknowledgments to my forthcoming book is up and live! thank you
@lizault
and
@DukePress
and friends for making this book possible 🖤
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Hero status 💖
How could any human, not clinically insane , support this genocide ?
Is there no limit to the number lives the western establishment will murder ? No limit to how many will be tortured ?
They prove themselves incapable of public trust - murderous barbarous racist
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Pleased that my review of Bénédicte Savoy‘s brilliant Africa’s Struggle for its Art is out now. DM me if you’re paywalled
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an incredible opportunity to contribute to one of london’s best museums. h/t to
@LalehKhalili
for first introducing me to the space
We're inviting you to help co-curate the London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery at Museum of London Docklands for our next display in Summer 2022. Since opening in 2007, the gallery has been a dedicated space for communities to comment on these themes.
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Thanks to the kind folks at
@europenowjrnl
@CES_Europe
for the invitation to contribute to their special issue on Decolonizing European Memory Cultures
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love to see friends’ work pop up in my feed ❤️
@motorresx
Read the dissertation spotlights of 3 early-career theorists in the latest issue of Perspectives, featuring
@jrluisf
Sam Hobson, and
@motorresx
here:
📭 theory.newsletter
@gmail
.com to nominate students for the next issue of dissertation spotlights!
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that one random celeb relationship that everyone moved on from but you literally cant forget it and think about it every day
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Babe I get much better dressed for lecture than this, but thanks 💋
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This is major. Gratitude to Ms. Lanier for blazing this difficult trail
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“empathy-based policing”? What next, gratitude-based genocide?
Seems like the copaganda event hosted by Radcliffe this week went according to script, replete with a cozy un-critical write-up in the student newspaper
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My crush’s dog in solidarity with the FREE PALESTINE movement 🇵🇸
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My first episode for
@NewBooksBiog
on
@NewBooksNetwork
is up! I had the pleasure of interviewing
@idrmrw
about his new book--a biography on the positivist philosopher Richard Congreve. Check it out (the book and episode)
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My full interview on Chinese state TV about the faculty encampment movement 🔨🌙
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At a Zionist rally I was holding a “Justice for Palestine” sign and was asked why I support Jewish genocide. I explained how Palestinian freedom justice doesn’t = Jewish genocide and Palestinians are facing genocide. They said it’s not genocide because there are no gas chambers.
A 13 yr-old kid in OC, California was called a terrorist by a classmate. He responded w/ "Free Palestine." And was suspended for 3 days.
Per his aunt, "They (school admin) expressed to my nephew that the words 'Free Palestine' meant death to all Jews and should never be said."
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She looks absolutely miserable doesn’t she, heck maybe she wasn’t even alive anymore—a true Weekend At Bernie’s scenario AMIRITE???
#15kGazanChildrenDeadButYoureWorriedAboutASpoiledCodependentChihuahua
#FreePalestine
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@AsadFromNYC
I’ll pay you to organize a Luther Vandross walking tour between Harlem & Chinatown! 🙏🏾
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@KWyndhamDouds
How much of this is a function of where sociologists live/work? I think we can't be bothered to do research in places that are inconvenient or uninteresting to us, which is why like every ethnography is of Chicago. Addressing this issue would involve addressing our own elitism
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I'm late catching up on the good news coming out of Glasgow but want to celebrate this display of ethical stewardship.
@glasgowlife
is not only repatriating heritage, but is embedding the work in broader interrogations legacies of slavery and imperialism
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lol I can't wait until they learn what sociology really is
yes, the NYPD did indeed print their own custom oversize and poorly blown-up mock-up of an anodyne entry in a series of pamphlet-length introductory college level textbooks to wave around on TV to show how student protestors are terrorists who must be crushed
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As a sleepytime bear aficionado (see this year’s halloween costume below) I’ve heard many takes on his presence in this world but this one is the most egregious—where’s the intersectional analysis of the domestic sphere? all our politics go out the window when he’s evoked
bro was off the sleepytime tea neglecting his whole ass family
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Lifting up the work of
@UnCommLaw
, a Bay Area org which takes a trauma-informed approach to supporting people coming home from life sentences, exposing and dismantling racist CA parole, and changing the narrative about crime, healing, and accountability
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My kinda guy
What are your favourite "ice-maker" exercises (strategies to re-establish social distance when classes have become too relaxed)?
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