A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print…
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BEYOND thrilled that I have been awarded (– along with my fabulous colleagues Mary Ton and Elias Petrou) funding from our Campus Research Board for the project "Parthenon at Illinois: studying interaction through historic and emerging replication techniques" 🎉 /1
My article on a vase with a kalos-inscription for Hephaistos has just been published, open access! In the article, I present a vase that's been largely ignored, but which gives us a new way to think about Hephaistos and his importance in 5th century BCE Athens.
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You can pre-order now!
www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...
That looks so good
I requested a bunch of chapters through interlibrary loan this morning. They all just came in some 10 hours after I placed the requests... courtesy of the University of Tasmania's ILL services. Man, I love international research collaboration.
Moving petroglyphs and bulldozing roads to Native America sites.
📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change.
Explore more here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We do this every summer! 100% works.
the call for a new cohort of Racing the Classics fellows is out! people should really be applying for this. apps due April 10th
Is this how the doloneia started
Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
join us two weeks from today 🥰
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
Holy cow
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
I love the intimacy that comes after you discover you both dislike the same person
Let's hear it for librarians, they're really out here enabling so much of our work as academics
This is a great idea. We aren't allowed to have any single assignment worth more than 30% of the final grade, but I think there's a way to incorporate some version of this even here. Thanks for sharing!
First hearing for Illinois Right to Mask . SB3340 Kiki’s law. Needs witness slips before Feb 26. Anyone in the U.S. can help!
Protect our right to mask in healthcare situations!
Kiki’s Law, the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act, will be heard in the Illinois Senate Thurs.
This takes a minute to complete. You do not need to write anything unless you want to.
Simple instructions at docs.google.com/document/u/2...
Some analog #archaeogaming on NPR yesterday: finding the rules of an ancient Roman board game with @waltros.bsky.social and others: www.npr.org/2026/02/23/n...
#classics
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
with alt text!
And people wonder if the ancient world can speak to modern issues
Honestly a forced day of being completely off the grid is my dream. This isn't that, but it's getting there
New drop from Maximus Planudes on the Anti-Empathy Movement and the End of the Iliad.
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If you can't make it but are interested, here's a recording of the talk that I gave at UMBC in October 2025: www.youtube.com/live/OPFZm_I...
On Thursday 19th March from 10:30am - 12pm, I'll be hosting a free online "Rethinking cataloguing" session for the Collections Trust, exploring what co-production means and what it could potentially bring to collections research, management and production.
collectionstrust.org.uk/events/rethi...
On Thurs, Feb. 19, I'll be speaking at UC Davis about my recent co-authored project, a late 6th century BCE statue of a dwarf woman that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. A recording of the talk from the Fall is available on YouTube, if you're interested!
classics.ucdavis.edu/events/disab...
