As the summer has turned into fall, I have been co-teaching the intro historiography seminar for history & #histSTM graduate students. My mind has kept returning to @myrnperez& #39;s introduction to "Diversifying the Discipline or Disciplining Diversity?" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.10... 1/6

"Different bodies bring with them different intuitions; experiences of sexism birthed feminist epistemology; the realities of the postcolonial state opened up the idea of decolonizing. The gift of critical epistemologies is the ability for others… 2/6

…to be trained in these intuitions: because of queer theory, straight people can have an expanded understanding of love & sex; because of critical race theory, those who have become white in the West can gain some insight into the legacy of the legal architectures of blackness…

... These & #39;training(s) of the imagination,& #39; as Gayatri Spivak terms them, are, at their best, not appropriations of the stories and identities of others. Rather, they are a rigorous exercise in the cultivation of empathy.” https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.10... 4/6

With additional contributions by @myrnperez & Projit Mukharji, as well as Elise K. Burton, @rianoseb, Terence Keel, Emily Merchant, @wmmuigai, Ahmed Ragab, & @SumanSeth42: Thanks, all! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.10... #histSTM 5/6

This is such an important conversation for #histSTM scholars to be wrestling with right now. I hope this collection of thoughtful & provocative essays (co-edited by @myrnperez & Projit Mukharji) is widely assigned in historiography seminars this year: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.10... 6/6