friends, it's an incredible honor to be part of the elizabeth a. clark lecture series at UMW. thanks so much to @jennisifire.bsky.social for the invite! i hope to see some of you VA folks next week.

Letter to NYT by Elizabeth Castelli & Hilary Callahan (via the former FB) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

“It's not a safe time to be a woman," said one of my patients. "With someone like that in power, abusers can basically do whatever they want to us.” My latest for medpagetoday.com @lindseyboylan.bsky.social #medsky #epstein #trump www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Link seemed to be cut off, so here it is again: www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...

Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover

I made an early Christian studies group---come join! hcommons.org/groups/early...

First episode of Complexly's new history show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=769f...

Just out & FREE to read for 2 weeks!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

When higher ed is under attack and things look bleak, I find creating academic networks helps me to feel a bit less alone and helpless

Delighted to be participating in another VECSS (Virginia Early Christian Studies Seminar), spotlighting work from some dear friends and colleagues. This fall we are hosted by Candace Buckner at VTech!

"Weeks of shocking political violence has made one thing painfully clear: Whose suffering is taken seriously is deeply political." msmagazine.com/2025/09/15/c...

The Victoria & Albert museum holds many treasures, one of which is this late antique pair of shoes from Roman Egypt (400-600 CE). 10/10 would wear today (photo is my own).

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa. In this article from our archive, Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to Britain.

This is the danger of domestic violence. By centering a perpetrator's story and not wo/men who are the target of violence, domestic space becomes deadly and then dismissable. I hate when my research is relevant

With the caveat that I've been the editor for all of three minutes, here's a thread about the goings on at the Journal of Early Christian Studies---far rosier, for reasons that I think have to do with size

Glad the BBC finally picked up on this. “One of the world's most sacred places is being turned into a luxury mega-resort” www.bbc.com/news/article...

A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.

Friends and colleagues, save the date for our next Elizabeth A. Clark Lecture series. This year, on October 2, 2025, Dr. Shaily Patel will be presenting a talk titled "Magic, Heresiology, and the Study of Early Christianity: Towards an Historiography of Possibility." @vox-magica.bsky.social

If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!

My former advisor sent me an email today saying she was proud of me and my accomplishments (I sent her a copy of my book), and I still cherish these accolades. I received my PhD 12 years ago.

From reproductive rights and workplace protections, to access to education and voting, the freedoms women have fought for are under attack like never before.

In the past week, I was awarded the Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award at UMW and received an R&R for an article spotlighting some early research from my latest book project. It's a good way to start another academic year that will certainly be challenging. Here we go!

Best cover, or *bestest* cover? Get yourself Jenny Barry's new @ucpress.bsky.social book, with Fuseli's The Nightmare put to excellent use

I can't wait for this to come out! Susanna is fantastic as is her scholarship ❤️ Bookmark this now!

All of this after they accepted a historic 25 million gift to fund …these exact programs.

In which Cliff Ando concentrates his formidable powers of analysis in a broad-based and razor-sharp indictment of the University of Chicago over the last few decades. My lord. This is *withering*.

Does this sound like one of your grad students?! Perhaps encourage them to send in an abstract. Great topic!

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is Helena’s Catholic feast day! To celebrate I’ve been to Trier to witness the display of her relics, stolen from her mausoleum in Rome in the ninth century.

HUGE eye roll today. Like rolling back in the deepest recesses of my skull eye roll #iykyk

It’s wild to think about how people feel that MeToo, Black Lives Matter, etc went too far as we watch the rights of women and the safety of Black people being further stripped away. It is just part of the same pattern as we’ve always seen: any inch towards equality is seen as an existential danger.

Author copies have arrived! Official release date is 9/23 #GenderViolence

“To a great extent, it appears, our crisis of the humanities is a crisis of academic leadership — a crisis of will, not capacity.” www.chronicle.com/article/they...

As Nature in Brilliant Colour wraps up- closing this Sunday, August 17! -we take a look at one of the most expensive natural pigments. Heidi Sobol, Senior Manager of Conservation and Senior Paintings Conservator at ROM tells us a bit about purpurissm, the source of Tyrian purple. 💜

📣We're into the FINAL WEEK for applications for two Editorial Fellowship positions 2025-27!📣 Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details: www.historyworkshop....

⭐️The knucklebone players⭐️ This #FrescoFriday we travel to Herculaneum. The scene has been labelled revealing Phoebe (the Titan) trying to pacify Leto (her daughter) and Niobe; on the ground two of the Niobids, Ileira and Aglaia play knucklebones. #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

While we’ve been podcasting about ancient Rome since 2013 (!) our love for history goes much further back. From a love of the ancient world on film, the epics of Hollywood, to the adventures of Indiana Jones, Hercules, and Xena. If there was a taste of the ancient world, we were there to savour it.

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora. global.oup.com/academic/con...

the new issues of Studies in Late Antiquity has our SBL forum on the 20th anniversary of THE WAYS THAT NEVER PARTED (co-ed @annetteyreed.bsky.social): ft. me, @simchagross.bsky.social, Heidi Wendt, and Jae Han's intro! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

“After analyzing 87 studies from around the world, we discovered that not a single one had ever investigated the biomechanics of labor. None examined how women's bodies actually move, adapt or respond during birth.” #ReproSky #MedSky 🧪 theconversation.com/why-we-still...

It's never to early to start thinking about 🐈‍⬛🎃👻🍂Halloween🍂👻🎃🐈‍⬛ and Ann Arbor area friends, you've got something cool to put on your calendar: 🕷️Queer Horror🕷️ book launch @literatibookstore.bsky.social Fri Oct 17, 6:30pm more details here: literatibookstore.com/event/2025-1...

they’re here! i only need like 3 of these. CUP sent me 10. so, how about this: i’ll mail the others to the first 7 contingent faculty and/or grad students who email me their mailing address.