Christopher Heaney

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Christopher Heaney

@chrheaney

Historian of science in Americas. EMPIRES OF THE DEAD on Inca mummies, CRADLE OF GOLD on Machu Picchu. Words @NewYorker @TheAtlantic. Co-fndr @appendixjournal.

Penn State University Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Paulo Drinot
Paulo Drinot@paulodrinot·
My article “Global Mariátegui” was published online back in April, but happy to see it that it has now been published as part of the May issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Open access too! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Jesse Cromwell
Jesse Cromwell@DrJesseCromwell·
@chrheaney WOW WOW WOW, CHRIS!!!!! So happy for and proud of you!!! What a way to close out the year!
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Mariajosé Afanador Llach
Mariajosé Afanador Llach@mariajoafana·
Ya soy profesora asociada :-) Acá parte de la carta del comité con comentarios muy generosos. Agradezco los proyectos colaborativos en los que he podido trabajar en humanidades digitales, el aprendizaje como profesora de la Maestría HD @ArtesUniandes y con la @ReHDi_Co
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Christopher Heaney
Christopher Heaney@chrheaney·
Today's reminder of how dumb AI can be (courtesy of PPT, in this case).
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Paulo Drinot
Paulo Drinot@paulodrinot·
Lots of fascinating material in @chrheaney’s terrific Empires of the Dead but this is 🤯: Munch’s The Scream may have been inspired by a Chachapoyas mummy that he and Gauguin saw at the Trocadéro ethnographic museum.
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Andrés 🍉
Andrés 🍉@Wharrgarble1·
@chrheaney Also sadly, I don't think you're going to find a ton of anti-imperialists in Miami, there either by travel or by residence.
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Leslie Harris
Leslie Harris@ProfLMH·
I agree that this museum has serious interpretive issues. The previous president for 30 years, Ellen Futter, refused to make any substantial changes. Now, a Black person, Sean Decatur, is president and as is often the case, will be expected to make everything A-ok. 🧵
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Thread 1/n: My kids and I were horrified at our recent visit to New York City’s American Museum of Natural History @AMNH . It was mindboggling, after the carefully curated exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society down the street. Is this a museum or a time-capsule? Why are

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