Hampton Smith

Hi all: My latest article, "Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts" is now published and freely available at Journal18. journal18.org/issue18/insurg…

Hi all: My latest article, "Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts" is now published and freely available at Journal18. journal18.org/issue18/insurg…

How many times did your dissertation change over the course of writing/researching? Its supposed to change, right? Right?

book/print history folks: what are your favorite texts on the environmental/material/political history of paper (specifically 20th century paper from trees)?

Come celebrate Black History Month at the Black Philadelphia conference February 20- 22 in Philadelphia! librarycompany.org/academic-progr…

@afroartnerd Sheldon Scott on the cover — amazing choice

@hampton_smith1 dukeupress.edu/the-art-of-rem…

best art history / material culture stuff you read this year? In urgent need of inspiration.

and, another fave, Joe Minter’s Four Hundred Years of Free Labor, 1995.

please share widely! that this piece passed peer review in an art history journal matters tremendously, but it is my naive hope it speaks to the varying fields that have nourished my intellectual and political growth over the years.

continuing this thread w/ some contemporary inspirations: Allison Saar, Reaper, 2021. enslaved women with tools raised as possible weapons.

Here now ?

My review of Matthew Rarey's Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic is out! It is anything but insignificant. If you're in slavery studies and/or Black studies, this is a must read. caareviews.org/reviews/4172

and we should all be thinking about how the south has always been a extractive resource, left underdeveloped and vulnerable.

@_p_antonio they will say cut half ❤️

this is my dissertation. the material know-how required for change!!

Apply! Blessed to be a current Mellon dissertation fellow—also, folks in Philadelphia, let’s connect!

this is what my students think art history is…(all correct)

mit finds that despite all efforts to recruit and offer financial aid to disadvantaged and low-income applicants in non-race-based ways, there are now fewer black first-years enrolling at mit than in ... 1982

If you’re at @SHEARites, please think about coming to this amazing panel. Now co-moderated by @CulturedModesty