Christopher Heaney
@chrheaney
Historian of science in Americas. EMPIRES OF THE DEAD on Inca mummies, CRADLE OF GOLD on Machu Picchu. Words @NewYorker @TheAtlantic. Co-fndr @appendixjournal.
CW. There are more Andean human remains in the @smithsonian than any other population. Why? Because Peru’s state let them leave—but Peruvian scholars also mobilized them against scientific racism. My new essay for @washingtonpost opens that history: 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
It’s social media real now! Really grateful to those who have helped me through this process. Celebrating by doing something “pinch me, I’m dreaming” for the next project.
Congratulations to Christopher H. Heaney (@chrheaney) who has been promoted to associate professor of modern Latin American history, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts!! 👏🎉 (psu.edu/news/academics…)
My article “Global Mariátegui” was published online back in April, but happy to see it that it has now been published as part of the May issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Open access too! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Honored by this distinction. Thank you to the members of the committee and the participants of the HAHR/WMQ double issue who helped shape this piece.
Congratulations to Alex Hidalgo (@thinmexduke) for winning the James Alexander Robertson Prize for his article in @HAHR21, "The Echo of Voices After the Fall of the Aztec Empire."
I’m humbled. This is such an honor. See you in NY!
Congratulations to Christopher Heaney (@chrheaney) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for his book, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (@OxUniPress).
Congratulations to Christopher Heaney (@chrheaney) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for his book, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (@OxUniPress).
Me perdí de compartir la publicación de este ensayo cuando salió en Julio en la gran revista Arqueología y Sociedad, sobre la colección de ancestros y "la arqueología de los Andes del siglo XIX como nexo de investigación global". revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/Arqu…
Today's reminder of how dumb AI can be (courtesy of PPT, in this case).
Lots of fascinating material in @chrheaney’s terrific Empires of the Dead but this is 🤯: Munch’s The Scream may have been inspired by a Chachapoyas mummy that he and Gauguin saw at the Trocadéro ethnographic museum.
I agree that this museum has serious interpretive issues. The previous president for 30 years, Ellen Futter, refused to make any substantial changes. Now, a Black person, Sean Decatur, is president and as is often the case, will be expected to make everything A-ok. 🧵
Congratulations to Christopher Heaney (@chrheaney) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for his book, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (@OxUniPress).
Lo más importante de este video no es mi charla en Brown (a la que tuve el honor de ser invitado), sino la conversación al final que la incréible @gabrielawiener y yo tuvimos sobre nuestro reencuentro con ancestros peruanos, identidad y racismo. Top 10 día del año pasado.
Mummifying Museums: The Inca Ancestors of American Anthropology — A talk with @chrheaney, Assistant Professor of History at @penn_state. Co-sponsored by @CLACSBrownU and @brownarchaeolog. (VIDEO) ow.ly/1KRH50Rto90
The most important of this video is not my talk at Brown (which I was honored to be invited for), but the conversation that the great @gabrielawiener and I have at the end about the re-encounter of Peruvian ancestors, identity, and racism. Top 10 day of the last year.
Mummifying Museums: The Inca Ancestors of American Anthropology — A talk with @chrheaney, Assistant Professor of History at @penn_state. Co-sponsored by @CLACSBrownU and @brownarchaeolog. (VIDEO) ow.ly/1KRH50Rto90
So proud of @PSUHistory Latin American historian PhD Dr. Alex Herrera!
Now that it is photo official, I am very excited to be joining the faculty at @UofSCHistory and @WalkerInstitute as an Assistant Professor of History and International Area Studies. I am so excited to join a dynamic and engaged community at @UofSC! We’re heading south, y’all!!
This afternoon at 4 at MIT!
I'll be back in Cambridge, MA next Monday to talk at MIT. I'll get into how "ancient trepanation" or cranial surgery was given an existence via 19th and 20th century "ancient Peruvian" and "Inca" examples, and the political stakes of it becoming "Andean." history.mit.edu/.../trepanning…
I'll be back in Cambridge, MA next Monday to talk at MIT. I'll get into how "ancient trepanation" or cranial surgery was given an existence via 19th and 20th century "ancient Peruvian" and "Inca" examples, and the political stakes of it becoming "Andean." history.mit.edu/.../trepanning…
Milei sacks historians whose research led to convictions of junta officers telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Why does nobody say this about math? I challenge any of you to spend 2 minutes on Arxiv and tell me what the hell is going on arxiv.org/list/math/new
I'll be back in Cambridge, MA next Monday to talk at MIT. I'll get into how "ancient trepanation" or cranial surgery was given an existence via 19th and 20th century "ancient Peruvian" and "Inca" examples, and the political stakes of it becoming "Andean." history.mit.edu/.../trepanning…
I spoke to @Reuters about the export of "alien" Peruvian mummies. If they're really archaeological, then Peru needs to halt the trade. But one clear possibility is they're able to leave the country because they're just fake, and the numbers are inflated. reuters.com/world/americas…
