Lydia Walker

My book, States-in-Waiting, is out in the world. Available Open Access - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

On Wed 17 June, Dr Lydia Walker, winner of the 2024 James J. Busuttil Medal, will deliver a lecture connected to her book 'States‑in‑Waiting' - join us to explore the complexities of decolonisation claims and to celebrate Dr Walker’s achievement! Details: tinyurl.com/ras-260617

H-Diplo has released a roundtable for STATES-IN-WAITING- Many thanks to @emleake.bsky.social @riakapoor.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @adenknaap.bsky.social, Saima Ashipala, + Bérénice Guyot-Réchard for their insightful engagement with the book!

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-39 on Walker, States-in-Waiting On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed…

States-in-Waiting is now a History finalist for the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize! In the two years since publication, the book has over 20K full text views, which would not have happened without OA publication, made possible by the Ohio State Libraries and @universitypress.cambridge.org

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

Akira Iriye, one of the pioneers in the internationalization of U.S. history, passed away. RIP. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Gelfand-Rappaport-LaFeber Dissertation Fellowship Ryan Metz, Ohio State University

My AHR review of @lydiawalker.bsky.social's States-In-Waiting is now live! I reflect on the book's methodological and theoretical contributions to global histories of decolonisation. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... #books #historians #decolonisation #globalhistory

Happy holidays to readers of global history and of the history of decolonization. States-in-Waiting is now out in paperback at an affordable price, especially with a 20% discount using code GHIS26. Many thanks to the team at @universitypress.cambridge.org cup.org/48wR0Mk

Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!

Many thanks, @pasuth.info! States-in-Waiting is just now out in paperback while remaining open access through Cambridge core. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social reviews Lydia Walker's @lydiawalker.bsky.social States in Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

All set up at #SHAFR2025. Stop by and say hello. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

🏆 We are pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker (@lydiawalker.bsky.social) and Dr Sandhya Fuchs. Read the full announcement and the winners’ profiles in our latest blogpost: royalasiaticsociety.org/the-james-j-...

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

From 8-14 June Pitt Rivers is hosting a Naga delegation for a visit focusing on the repatriation of Naga ancestral remains & exploring future care. The Museum holds the largest collection of Naga material in the world, much of which was collected by colonial administrators in the early 20th century.

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great program, timely and important topic - very glad I can attend.

Only recently discovered that I needed this. How I wish John Prados was still with us. Will be writing about Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu, and the war declaration that didn't happen.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Delighted to announce the program of our Global History Colloquium @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, which I co-convene with Isabella Löhr and Sebastian Conrad this summer. All welcome.

8/ Viewpoint: "A revisionist history of the United Nations" by Alanna O’Malley (@unileiden.bsky.social) and @lydiawalker.bsky.social (@osuhistory.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...

A privilege to publicly engage w/such an important book. H-Diplo's Roundtable on @drmargottudor.bsky.social's Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: “particularly strong on the United Nations’ conceptions of territoriality and its relationships to time."

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

📢 Exciting News! JGH is hosting a Development Editing Workshop. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond. mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond. mershoncenter.osu.edu/archive @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

My favourite archive in India, at NCBS in Bengaluru, is looking for a distinguished professor to work with their collections.

My PhD student Yusra Abdullahi on the relationship between what materials get archived, who gets access, and the construction of global orders.

The President of Indonesia went to the UK and met with Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street but only posted about meeting Larry the Cat.

I wrote an essay on decolonization talk for Aeon Magazine, sparked in part by the seemingly odd image search results for 'decolonization' when making posters for Ohio State's International History Seminar last year. @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/what-...

The editors support @sevead.bsky.social, whose work is being unfairly instrumentalized for political ends: tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv She is a historian not a state agent. Her pathbreaking scholarship underwent rigorous peer-review to be published in this very journal. #OA link: bit.ly/4i9J86r

What an excellent choice - in terms of scholarship, scholar, and understandings of inter/national in/security

We are hiring! Its an endowed professorship at the level of assistant or associate professor in one of the following areas: colonial America; early modern British; OR early modern Atlantic. Please spread the word. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...