John Garcia

John Garcia

@jgarc.bsky.social

AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.

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John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Call for Applications: The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print, Jan. 11-15. ‘27 at the American Antiquarian Society (deadline: Oct. 15 ‘26)

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Penn Material Texts
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✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it! Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom. Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org (Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

Penn Material Texts@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social

This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST 📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.” Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print. Details: pennmaterialtexts.org Hope to see you there!

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California Rare Book School
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CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually. #bookhistory #C19

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society. Link with more info in comments.

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there. Link in comments.

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823

americanantiquarian.orgEncyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World | American Antiquarian Society
John Garcia@jgarc.bsky.social

Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments

John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social

A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.