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Pro Publica: A Public Classics Workshop

Pro Publica: A Public Classics Workshop Northwestern University, October 18-19, 2019 How can we better speak and write about the…

ancient mediterranean, CFP, classics, northwestern, public history, public humanities, scs

The Art of the Logographer: Ghostwriting from Antiquity to Trump

Many incorrectly imagine that the life of a Classicist involves a blind obsession with the particulars of the ancient Greek…

My Statement on the ‘Future of Classics’ Panel and the Aftermath

This morning, the SCS released a statement over confusion about whether I have been formally censured by the society. I…

Reacting to the Racist Events At the SCS-AIA Annual Meeting in San Diego: A Roundup

[This post was originally published on the SCS Blog] It has now been a month since the SCS-AIA annual meeting…

AIA, annual meeting, classics, racism in academia, scs, state of the field

Deus Ex Machina: Depicting Cranes and Pulleys in the Ancient World

Within ancient theater, the phrase ‘deus ex machina‘ actually referred to a crane called a μηχανή (the Greek term from…

cranes, Huqoq, Late Antiquity, manuscripts, medieval, mosaics, Roman construction, Saint Mark's, Tower of Babel

Building the Iron Gates of Alexander: The Migrant Caravan & Geographies of Fear

Thousands of refugees are currently standing at the US-Mexico border. In their 2,500 mile journey from Central America, these women,…

alexander romance, Alexander the Great, biblical studies, Early Christianity, Early Islam, ezekiel, gog and magog, Judaism, Late Antiquity, medieval history

Book Review: Not All Dead White Men

Over on Ancient Jew Review, I have a review of Donna Zuckerberg’s new book, Not All Dead White Men.  The review was certainly…

Ancient Jew Review, Book Review, classics, Donna Zuckerberg, misogyny, Red Pill Communities

Taking a Sapphic Stanza: Papyri, Digital Humanities, and Reclaiming the Work of Ancient Women

This semester, I am teaching our department’s Archaic to Classical Greek Survey. I specialize in late antique Roman history and…

ancient Greek, DH, digital humanities, digitization, homer, Inscriptions, ostraca, papyri, pedagogy, Sappho, translation

Signs of the Times: Ancient Symbols Reused by Hate Groups

For the past year and half, I have written extensively about the appropriation of ancient symbols, texts, and material culture…

alt right, ancient rome, antiquity, fasces, Fascism, sculpture, spqr, symbols, vexillations

Redesigning WOAH: Women of Ancient History

For a long time now, I have been interested in the ways in which digital humanities projects can be used…

DH, digital humanities, digital scholarship and publishing studio, Iowa, manel, woah, women

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