Abigail Modaff (mostly on bluesky)

You should read this fantastic and timely piece on Dred Scott and Supreme Court legitimacy by @JBooth_history papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Was lucky to read a couple versions of this paper, it’s excellent!

@LauraPortuondo A friend (fellow legal scholar) passed this along to me, I am also new to UH as of last year and would love to connect!

If you are/know anyone in Houston, I'd love to connect!

It's my first official day as an Assistant Professor at the @UHLAW! I'm so excited to join this scholarly community, to meet my new students, and to explore Houston. Proof of Texas:

Historians: best transcription software for interviews? (Secure, simple, relatively cheap, in priority order)

Congratulations @erikmbaker !!!

🏆Congratulations to Gili Kliger, winner of this year’s #USIH Dorothy Ross Prize for “Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty,” American Historical Review, 2022, 127(3): 1102-1130. @AmHistReview @AHAhistorians @Harvard_History #twitterstorians s-usih.org/2023/06/announ…

@chrisbrooke Thanks, Chris, and good to hear from you after all these years! I think about that semester in Cambridge all the time—wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am without it.

“What a cool story, I’ll just quickly write this up as a break from my dissertation,” I thought…5 years ago. So excited and grateful that my article on stubborn catholic socialists is finally out online today from MIH! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The excellent Abigail Modaff with a new article for Modern Intellectual History: "“The Hidden Life”: Ellen Gates Starr, Vida Dutton Scudder, and Catholic Socialist Progressivism": cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Thanks to the many, many folks who helped along the way!

First post in the SHGAPE Blog’s series on crime & punishment! @JBooth_history writes on Georgia’s County Court as a tool of racial hierarchy intended to maintain the cotton economy after emancipation. blog.shgape.org/regulating-fre… #Twitterstorians #Reconstruction #LegalHistory

@internetstine This is so exciting!!!!!

I can't really believe it, but I just paid the deposit so it must be true—come July I'll be studying English Country Houses with the Attingham Summer School

@LDBurnett Exactly!

For @NBCUAcademy, I wrote about how reporters should approach stories about trans kids, what to expect in the reporting process, and what trans kids and their parents would like to see in that reporting. nbcuacademy.com/trans-kids-jou…

The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would be. Florida HB 999 would enact the most draconian and censorious restrictions on higher education in the history of this country. flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…

Big News!!! We have voted to ratfiy the contract and will be returning to work 2/21. We're excited to get back to work and join our colleagues again. #HarperCollins #HCPOnStrike #HarperCollinsUnion

@AOBrandel Thanks, Andrew!!

@AbigailModaff Congrats @AbigailModaff !

So thrilled and lucky to be able to tell this story! Could not be more grateful to Emily, Gail, and everyone else who helped me get to this surreal point. Please still put up with me in a couple years when I’m surrounded by notes and ranting. Ready for summer in St. Louis ☀️☀️☀️

@henrosefield Thank you!!!

@AbigailModaff wow congrats, this sounds so good!!!!