"After Mr. Paul learned from his wife that the authorities were threatening to deport her without a hearing ... their lawyer filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Diego to halt her removal and secure her release. In response, the government approved Ms. Paul’s green card on Tuesday and freed her"

News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess! I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

How did the built environment shape social contention in Late Antiquity? Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It strikes me that a lot of educational conversations around AI and cheating have to do with the uncomfortable coexistence of our institutions of learning as both hierarchical merit systems and spaces of knowledge acquisition/production

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

It's Julia Child Day (at Smith College)! Queen of the organized kitchen // download the special issue of Design Quarterly or a poster here walkerart.org/magazine/des...

How did the built environment shape social contention in Late Antiquity? Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup “vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression” "eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system. Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees. 48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UMass-Amherst is hiring “a specialist in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world” ! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

ROFL. Eco is not wrong. He's not wrong at all.

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

To be honest, I had no idea that Merriam-Webster is based in Springfield

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

Academia thrives on status and its aspirational pursuit. For universities, the status conferred by “prestigious journals,” many rolled up into these publishing conglomerates, is “worth” the price paid for it. Likewise, the accrued, supposed status is why the sector can’t break free of them.

Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾 Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!

I must admit that I didn't have a movie based on an early Christian apocryphal text starring Nicholas Cage on my 2025 bingo card apnews.com/article/carp...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

A recent study found that more than *20 percent* of UCDavis students relied on SNAP benefits—

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

TIL there was a 2017 reboot of The Mummy starring... Tom Cruise?!

Amid the restoration of a Confederate monument in D.C. and Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, this essay by David Cunningham is a critical read. Cunningham visited the site of every Confederate monument removed since 2015, documenting how the landscape has (or hasn't) changed.

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

It is strange to me that, while TT applications are asking for ever fewer docs at the time of application (one this week only wants a CV and cover letter; refs contacted after 1st cut), postdocs still want everything from research statements to sample syllabi and "intellectual biographies" (ugh)

In 2025 I've spoken about how AI firms have been exploiting historical artifacts & knowledge in ways that threaten the ongoing practice of history at Wesleyan, Tufts, CCNY, Middlebury, UMass, UToronto, Miami Uni: & what I've seen repeatedly is how students WANT US TO PROTECT them from this.

#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky

This looks like a very interesting read.

Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese (Al-Andalus), Tulane University: #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

Had a great discussion with my students today about monuments and the politics of space in Richmond, VA -specifically the debates surrounding the statue of Wimbledon champion, philanthropist, and activist Arthur Ashe using this fantastic article by Jonathan Leib journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

half. HALF. ("well technopolies are good actually" and I shoot straight into a tree to scream like an angry squirrel)

It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship! We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉

It’s good to have a monopoly LMS, right? RIGHT????

I often wonder about the productivity deficit I've accrued from what has been five years already of contingent employment. How many more publications would I have, how much further along would the book be, if I wasn't continually applying for jobs and fellowships and teaching 5-6 courses a year?

Clifton Cathedral. It's hard for me to overstate how wonderful I think this building is.

I feel like I have entered a new life stage in which if I go away for even one night, I get sick

Exploring works of Ionic architecture from different periods in Ionia, the Cyclades, Athens, and the Northern Aegean, Professor Samuel Holzman's new book "Retrospective Columns" shows that their builders established continuity while reinforcing community identities and architectural tradition.

Archaeologist of early Christianity Irene Selsvold has an interesting new (open access) article on streetscapes at Ephesus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I do question the entire process of “Christianization” as a framework but this is an interesting dive into spatial studies in 1 street corner.

Found a funny but depressing quirk on Duolingo's Arabic course - Reasonably enough, it uses "2" to transcribe ء‎ and "3" to represent ع‎ - but occasionally the AI voice will glitch out and read it out as if it were the number

City hall Ohio, IL

Very good news!

what does this mean

I think at this point, several months (and several emails) on, I can now say that the Soprintendenza is ignoring me

Art History escapes the cut, but put on "pause" are, among others: African American Studies, Classics, Fine Arts, French, German, History of Architecture, Italian, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, and Russian -- potentially a huge blow to the Humanities in central NY

Hahahaha Academia Dot Your Stuff Is Yours messed up so badly that Humanities Commons is currently down, lol When it comes back, scholar friends, go get yourself a profile at a place that won't steaI from you