Thanasis Kinias

Historian at a U.S. university, teaching a broad range of world and regional history courses; research field is late 19th/early 20th century British Empire.

Also a SF nerd and Linux geek.

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2026-03-02 21:40:33 UTC

Bengali English teacher Joyeeta Banerjee on getting a Fulbright to the U.S. <https://www.npr.org/2026/03/01/g-s1-104772/teacher-india-school-patriarchy-fulbright>
“Every woman who crosses an ocean for her work carries rebellion in her suitcase. Mine is lined with lesson plans, stories of my girls from my school and the slums, and a stubborn belief that my worth does not depend on how well I maintain other people's comfort. Education, after all, is an act of faith that minds can open, that even inherited questions can change.”

2026-01-10 18:24:09 UTC

Oh FFS. The university just added an “AI search” button to all my courses in Canvas.

2025-12-29 16:07:58 UTC

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aaah, that’s interesting!
in the Greek tradition most names have formal and informal versions but they’re connected (e.g., the formal version of my name is Athanásios and the demotic version is Thanásis)

2025-12-29 15:59:30 UTC

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what’s the origin of ‘Chhavi’ BTW?

2025-12-20 13:42:15 UTC

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tbh that 150 number still sounds pretty damn high (at least from my postsecondary perspective)—I had around 100 last semester in four classes, the largest with 32 students, and I was able to get to know *many* of them as individuals, but already that that scale it’s very hard to get to know the quiet ones who don’t stand out in some way

2025-11-22 18:57:50 UTC

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I’ve heard this with Facebook as well—people who wouldn’t otherwise want to be on it but find they really have to be do deal with kid-related stuff.