Kara Swanson @[email protected]
@KaraWSwanson
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Historian sci/tech/med/gender/law | IP & property prof @NUSL | author Banking on the Body https://t.co/76U9T5Jf8E… | she/her
Boston, MA
Joined November 2013
To follow in the footsteps of Dr. John Hope Franklin in any way . really, no words.
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It is a little known fact that I love #AdventCalendars & I just found one that delivers to my phone. 😍 (thinking this will be great for my uni student too). Plus #Local #boston #artist
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Was such fun to talk w @UVALaw students! Thanks for the invite!.
In this episode, @KaraWSwanson joins me & @UVALaw students Mary Beth Bloomer & Anu Goel to discuss her book "Banking On The Body"
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.@hdernity you were saying?.
#ArchivesTeachableMoment start a new binder or folder when one gets too full! This incredibly large book is an exhibit in a District of Montana case involving the Sunburst Oil & Refinery Co. It records 1928 royalty payments from the Kevin-Sunburst Oil field near Shelby, Montana.
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I am having so much fun in #KCMO, in the library & around town. All historians should take a look at their amazingly deep and rich collections. Plus friendly & helpful staff! Thank you @LindaHall_org for a great fellowship program.
As a Linda Hall Library fellow, @KaraWSwanson will consult our collections to explore the relationship between the celebration of American inventiveness and civil rights across U.S. history. Meet Kara:
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Having so much fun meeting this cohort in person in #KCMO and on-line! #AmResearching.
Linda Hall Library's 2023-24 fellowship cohort is the largest in the program's history, with members from across the US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the UK. Meet the newest additions to the Linda Hall Library fellowship family:
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✔️ banned history .For #AHAReads #summerReading I chose the multiple award winning Queer, There and Everywhere by @Sarah_Prager 1st ed, w profiles of 23 people who changed the world, from Roman Emperor Elagabalus to now. Expanded new edition, just out!
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Noticed prominence of #HistMed (horrible treatments) & #LegalHist (odd crimes and horrible punishments) .Also given the emphasis on the BORING #HistoryTeacher as foil I want to shout out the marvelous history teachers my kids have had! .#AHAReads (2/2).
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✔️as my #AHAReads #history for young readers, tried one of the Horrible Histories series, the Terrible Tudors, which somehow never found their way into my house. Evidently a Big Thing across the pond, with fandom, songs, TV . (1/2).
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Terrible Tudors is a book by Terry Deary published in 1993 and is the first Horrible Histories book published (Along with Awesome Egyptians). 5 years later, another book called 'Even More Terrible...
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TFW you know you are getting an exceptional new colleague! 👇 (not to mention #HealthLaw and #IP and amazing teacher . ) Welcome to @NUSL!.
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Some good news today. Welcome!👇#NUSLPride.
Sharmila Murthy joins the @Northeastern faculty in July as professor of law and public policy! Initially, she will be on leave to serve as director for environmental justice at the White House Council on Environmental Quality @WHCEQ @NUCSSH #NUSLPride
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.@lexlanham & @larafreidenfeld are only 2 of the many folks thoughtfully engaging w the influencer economy &/or #motherhood who will find this Short Takes interesting. No pay wall!.
Is engaging ethically with momfluencer content possible? Why do so many derive pleasure from watching others mother? And how might the future of motherhood be reconceptualized? These and other issues are explored in our latest Short Takes!
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👇Another terrific colleague @NUSL.
Congratulations to incoming @NUSLHealth Professor .@KatieKraschel, who has been appointed chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England! @ppsne #NUSLPride
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12-year-old Carolyn King fought to play in Little League, despite the nat'l Little League org prohibiting girls from playing. In Federal court, Dr. Louis Kivi confirmed that baseball was not any more dangerous to girls than boys, June 27, 1973 (p. 1, 6).
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✔️#AHAReads #history of my community by local journalist & architect, covering poetry, football, gene sequencing, Polaroid & candy making. Would love to see review by @CancerHistorian
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👀 Undisclosed by a white man's patent . the mental & physical labor of 76 Black Jamaicans. No paywall, #IPProfs! #InventionHist #PatentHist #RethinkTheArchive #BlackInvention.
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Incredibly proud of @NUSL grad, Talesha Saint-Marc 09 who is now the first black person to serve on the Federal Bench in NH! She is a Federal Magistrate Judge! #nuslpride #trailblazer
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More #music #copyright @ #ISHTIP with @w758 pointing out how Riccio/Pezza paper on Canzone Napoletana raises question of class formation & immigrant identity thru contested use of public domain of folk traditions.
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