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What Are the Best Classics Books for Children?

Finishing my third trimester in the midst of a pandemic was not what I had planned for the last months … More

classics, pandemic, pregnancy, reading

Consider the Anus Radish: Etymologies, Adultery, and the Defense of the Microhistory

Isidore was a learned scholar and the Bishop of the Spanish city of Seville from 600-636 CE. Thousands of manuscripts … More

The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers

Over at Hyperallergic this week, I discuss the proposed release of over 2,000 Hieroglyphs into Unicode by 2020 or 2021.  … More

classics, computer history, DH, digital humanities, digital preservation, encoding, hieroglyphics, hyperallergic, manuscripts, TEI, text

Anno Domini: Computational Analysis, Antisemitism, and the Early Christian Debate Over Easter

This post was originally published at the SCS Classics blog on March 30, 2018.  In the 6th century CE, a … More

AD, blogging, calendars, CE, computus, dating, dionysius exiguus, easter, infographics, Late Antiquity, scs

How Can Libraries and Digital Humanities Spaces Co-Exist?

Over at Hyperallergic, I have contributed a new article on the removal of books from the fine arts library at … More

carnegie museum of art, DH, digital humanities, hyperallergic, libraries, makerspaces, plaster casts, University of Iowa, UT-Austin, UVA

Replacing the Squeeze? Teaching Classical Epigraphy With 3D Models

This semester, I am incorporating more epigraphy into my undergraduate and graduate level courses. The University of Iowa has a … More

3D, ancient history, classics, DH, digital humanities, digital models, epigraphy, Late Antiquity, open access, pedagogy, sketchfab

Eating Nocturnal Fruits: A Round-Up Of My Favorite Ancient and Medieval Posts of 2017

One of my favorite reflections on the act of writing was written by a late Roman historian, poet, and rhetorician … More

academic writing, ancient history, blogs, classics, history, Judaism, late antique, medieval, roman, round-up

Digital Palmyra: Resources for Researching the Ancient City

Yesterday on the Forbes blog, I discussed recent attempts to reconstruct the ancient busts of Palmyra damaged by ISIS and repatriate … More

3D modeling, digital humanities, getty, Louvre, museums, Palmyra, Roman History, syrian civil war

Legitimizing The Blog: On Reading, Citing & Archiving Blogposts

Over at the Forbes blog this week, I wrote about an issue within academic blogging that has been bugging me for … More

academic blogging, ancient history, archiving, bibliographies, citation practices, medieval history, NEH, plagiarism, wordpress, zotero

Modeling the Tincu House: A New 3D Model from Roman Gabii

Over on the Forbes blog this week, I explore the new publication of an interactive 3D model for a mid-Republican … More

3D modeling, archaeology, classical archaeology, digital humanities, digital scholarship and publishing, roman, university of michigan press

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