Dr. Melissa N. Morris
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Asst. Prof. of History @ U of Wyoming. Tweets about colonial Americas, early modern botany, comparative empires and more. Always in search of the perfect dress.
Laramie, WY
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3yo: Why do you have 2 bookmarks?
Me: One's for the endnotes. Those are little notes at the end that help you understand the book better.
3yo: You're reading a book you don't understand?
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We just got word that a) our university is ending its mask mandate and b) our president has Covid 🙃
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Going to need some time to recover from this student paper about how things were done "back in 2000," and which tries to sort out what a "second phone line" is.
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Are you a historian? Are you able to come to Laramie, WY this month to talk about your research (expenses paid + an honorarium)? If you are interested in this exciting, madcap opportunity to help me spend a pot of money before it is lit on fire, get in touch!
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Thanks to a Fulbright, I'll be in the Netherlands for most of 2023! I'll be at U. Leiden, but hope to connect with as many people/institutions as possible. My 4yo daughter has devoted herself to learning to ride a bike in preparation.
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Academics who have published a book: what factors were most important to you when deciding which presses to contact? Price of the book? Reputation of press (in your field/generally)? Liking the editor? Something else?
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Can... PBS not find anyone else to make documentaries? Maybe it's great, but I just don't find the prospect of Another Ken Burns doc very *exciting*
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I get why it's funny to dunk on Princeton grad students but just so ya know a) everyone should get paid well and b) working class/first-gen etc people do also attend those programs (me, at Columbia)
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For example, that famously medieval tactic of threatening nuclear war
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My son, who is 1.5, walked up to my laptop, pressed some keys for a nanosecond and now my Google Calendar (which I use for everything) is in POLISH. I tried to see how to switch it back but since I can't READ POLISH, I cannot follow the steps.
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How about this instead: thank you to all the librarians and archivists who have done amazing and difficult work this last year-plus to make your collections accessible!
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My latest is OUT NOW, a little later than scheduled but I think the better for it. It's among my better works, I think. And they say women are struggling to be productive during the pandemic!
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My husband slipped on ice and broke his leg for the second time in 1.5 years. They had to take him to Colorado for a specialist surgeon, so he's all alone. Send your good wishes to
@Schism_Shop
and PLEASE shovel your sidewalks!
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A package came in the mail today for me. I wasn't expecting anything but then remembered my husband and I ordered a bunch of books from the
@CornellPress
sale *while I was in labor* a couple weeks ago. We didn't want to miss the sale!
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My mom is probably on her way to the History Department with my business cards now. She knows that's not how it works, she just thinks I'm that irresistible.
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s/o to my baby, who was sent home from daycare on a day I had to meet with 7 students and who was an absolute angel during 6.5 of those meetings! And thanks to my students, who were very cool about it.
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Hello
#twitterstorians
! The University of Wyoming History Dept. is accepting applications for our FUNDED M.A.! We're also waiving application fees, so you have no reason to not apply, really.
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"I don't like the olives in Wyoming. I only like them in Spain." She may be the world's bougiest toddler, but she's not wrong.
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If you're a historian, is it really a vacation if you're not also dragging your family to some place connected to your work?
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Obligatory first day of classes selfie. Happy new school year, everyone!
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My 4yo has ridden her bike ~2 miles to preschool every day for a week, and mostly in a tutu.
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This arrived in my mailbox today! Including an essay by yours truly, "Spanish and Indigenous Influences on Virginia Tobacco Cultivation" and more by lots of other smart people.
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If you have small children and finished your book, please tell me your tips now.
#twitterstorians
#academicmom
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I sometimes leave in the middle of my own class to fill up my water bottle.
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Do any of you teach a big survey class (US to 1865 in my case) in which you have gotten rid of exams? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts!
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Historians expose early scientists’ debt to the slave trade
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My favorite part of early modern transcription is when you are completely stumped by a word until you say it out loud to yourself a few times in different accents until you figure it out.
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If Twitter goes away I might use the extra time finish my book, but no one will know about it...
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One cool thing about working at the lone public university in a not-very-populous state is that people get in touch with questions. I've talked to 4th graders on Skype! I gave my card to a nurse after giving birth! So: good resources for teaching the Am Rev to 5th graders?
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It's cool that Julia Child and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were history majors, but it's very silly to suggest that I send this list to my students to suggest possible career paths.
To help departments illustrate the many career paths available to those with undergraduate degrees in history, the AHA has assembled a list of notable history majors—some famous, some not so famous, and some even infamous. Feel free to share with students.
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Celebrating my 40th birthday at a historic house, of course, with some of my favorite people!
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I am really thrilled to share that we are running a search for an Asst. Prof. of Latin American History! Check out the ad, please share, and let me know if you have any questions about the job, our department, university, or anything else.
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One of my students showed up to class yesterday with a copy of Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America, (which he'd bought cause it popped up on Amazon) and asked if *I* was the Melissa Morris who authored one of the essays! Totally made my day.
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I scored these amazing (and amazingly heavy!) bookcases at my university's surplus store for *$100* each. Ten years after moving in together,
@Schism_Shop
and I have allowed our books to commingle, so we really have to stick it out now...
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Applications for the University of Wyoming's MA in History are due March 1st! No application fee, no GREs, and really, no reason not to apply. We will have at least 3 fully-funded positions available to incoming students. I am happy to answer any questions.
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If, like me, you grew up in a climate where you could go pick pumpkins in an actual patch, then you might it hilarious/sad that in Wyoming, they toss a bunch of pumpkins in a dusty sterile field for kid to "pick."
Not pictured: the corn maze. Because there isn't one.
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I hope the young woman I just saw with a homemade shirt that read "no gods, no boyfriends" takes my class.
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In their final paper, a student who truly understands me included a list of the improbable things the Darien colonizers brought with them: periwigs, 1,440 Scotch bonnets, 1,000 locks, 1,500 Bibles and Catechisms, 23,000 clay pipes, 500 pairs of slippers, hunting horns
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Retweeting this because 17th C colonial agriculture is my jam but also because I like that the New Netherland Institute is up at midnight tweeting about hemp.
July is National Hemp Month, and to recognize this valuable source of fiber in early America we look at a 1634 Rensselaerswijck tenant contract. The farmer was to “sow two or three morgens with hemp” or another crop upon arrival, and a bag of hemp seed was sent with him.
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I'm in a writing group and our warm up exercise this week was to draw our research. I cannot draw but here's what I came up with. If you're confused, no worries--I am also releasing it in book form someday!
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So proud of my son for signing "all done." I just wish it hadn't been to communicate that he was "all done" with sleeping, at 4:30am.
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Weekend fun in Golden, CO on a beautiful bike path into a canyon. Felix was looking at the river, and not the camera, which is fair.
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I just found out that our daycare is going to require vaccines for employees!!!! (Maybe you live somewhere where this isn't a big deal but this is huge for us!)
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Wow, a three year post-doc on Dutch Caribbean history at the U. of Copenhagen! This project looks awesome, too.
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Spent a couple days on my own in Fort Collins. I went on a long bike ride, made two trips to Target, and ate a dinner that cost more than my hotel room.
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Happy New Year's Eve. 2020 was probably the hardest year of my life but it also brought me this little guy:
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BRB, about to indenture myself and go to French America to escape "girl problems."
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Would any
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out there be interested in speaking at a virtual roundtable on the history of pandemics? Our Humanities Institute is responding to our current crisis by offering more opportunities for people to come together... virtually!
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Please enjoy this picture of my parents' dog getting ready to go on a kayak
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Next semester, I am teaching A Secret History of Science and of course, I always change the syllabus. If you have great readings recs about underrepresented people, crazy ideas, or even just wild stories about how science was done, put them below!
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Throwing this GIF in the Seven Years' War lecture today, with utter disregard for the fact that my students were -15 when this episode aired.
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Really proud of my nephew Jordan, whose high school graduation I'm watching remotely right now. Neither of his parents graduated high school, but he did it, and well, and under trying circumstances.
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I knew Karen Kelsky was selling snake oil but what I learned from her responses to Craig is that she has utter discontempt for the adjuncts and other precariously employed people who comprise her clientele.
Karen Kelsky put me on blast on her professional Facebook page for The Professor Is In. Some folks who know me have likely seen it by now. I acknowledge that the initial tweet was not me at my most considered but I stand by my argument that Kelsky's "get tenure" grift is a fraud
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Thinking I should start a fashion blog featuring my toddler's (self-selected) outfits
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We had a surprise visitor in the History building yesterday!
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My brother is working on a house with this crazy Columbus wallpaper. Unfortunately, his job is removing it.😭
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"Can I attend my mom's dissertation defense?" is my new favorite reason for asking to miss class. Obviously, yes!
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I'm devastated by what's happening, but since I have nothing new to add and I'm on vacation, here's a picture of our Grand Teton bike ride.
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I love to read well-considered, erudite student papers, but I also just love when a student writes a response that is like, "OHMYGOD I NEVER KNEW ANY OF THIS I LEARNED SO MUCH!"
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Me: Talking intensely about locked letters, the hidden treasures they hold, and the new technology that can open them virtually, while showing one onscreen
Student: "uh, Dr. Morris? You're sharing the Bed, Bath & Beyond website..."
Me: What do you all think about this bedspread?
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My son can sleep like this, but won't sleep in his crib
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I've only ever left my toddler for work things but my first weekend away as a mother of two is for a women's mountain biking camp.
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We've been in the UK for less than 3 weeks and my daughter had started calling me Mummy
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I know it's late July and I haven't achieved my summer goals but I'll be unstoppable now!
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I'm so happy I'm in tears. My in-laws have yet to meet my 15-month-old son in person.
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I was interviewed for this excellent, important piece about having kids on the tenure track in the US. I truly believe I am one of the luckiest people in this profession and yet my experience shows how deeply inadequate our policies around parental leave are.
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My 3yo daughter's joke was featured on the walkway into preschool. I can't express how proud I am.
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It can be annoying when people post their good news during a time when so many others are struggling, so it is with great trepidation that I'm letting you know my toddler has opened a pandemic nail salon for just her dad and me.
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Daycare was cancelled so my toddler is sitting on the floor having brownie batter fed to her while wearing a swimsuit.
@Schism_Shop
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My 4yo daughter really wants to live in an apartment. She talks about it and she draws pictures of them. "Why?" we finally asked. Because she heard that if you have the lights off in your apartment you can see into other peoples' apartments.
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@jjponcevazquez
They don't care about the job prospects because they're financially comfortable (retired military is v common, but could also just be someone who got/was born rich). At the opposite end, someone for whom a 30k stipend is a lot of money + sufficient reason to pursue it.
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In case you're wondering how kids raised by their grandparents turn out, my 18yo nephew just delivered a blistering critique of CBS Sunday Morning's recent decline.
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I had a Dutch language lesson yesterday in which I explained my research and why the seventeenth century is interesting to me but I also forgot the word for "couch," and that is basically what my Dutch is like.
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@AsheeshKSi
@TeenVogue
This is great! And to think you were actually voted "least likely to have a Teen Vogue byline" in our dissertation writing group several years ago!
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Write sober, edit sober, summon up the courage to send it off drunk
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I'm teaching Global Environmental History this spring. Most students are not history majors so what I like to do is put current issues in a historic perspective. What themes do you think fit the bill? What amazing works, old + new, do you love to teach with? Yes, you can Zoom in!
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I'm lecturing on Jamestown today and even though I do this at least once a year, I am *so excited* for it.
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My mom sent my kids this get well card letting them know that their illness is, in fact, an impediment to my ambitions. Sorry kids, Mimi loves you but I was here first. Thank God they can't read yet.
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Day 2 of classes and a student who attended my 120- person lecture in a very full room yesterday has tested positive for COVID...
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"Mommy, are any of your students so naughty Santa won't visit them? "
"I don't know, sweetie. I haven't read my evals yet."
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Happy first birthday to my sweet Felix. He just learned to walk, the hair is slowly coming in, and as someone else put it "he knows how to use that smile." Watch out, world!
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Love to have print out, fill out a dozen questions, and FAX a form to get a desk copy of a book for a class in the year of our lord 2022.
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@mcadams_at_rice
I defended my dissertation 5 months pregnant. I interviewed pregnant for a TT job and got it. A year later, interviewed for a better one while pumping and got it. Now pregnant with my second in a very family-friendly department!
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My husband lived in the Netherlands for a bit as a child so all his favorite things about it involve theme parks or junk food.
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2020 is SO CRAZY! I woke up and found out I'm 39, but I'm pretty sure 1981 was not that long ago?
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My class, The Americas in an Early Modern World, had a fantastic time today talking with Carla Pestana about her new book, The World of Plymouth Plantation. It fit perfectly with the themes of our class, which is all about global connections
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