🚨New Episode!🚨 @debscavator.bsky.social joins Alexandra for a chat about disability in Ancient Greece. What do you think is the most common question Debby is asked? The answer might surprise you, and reveal a *lot* about our modern thought processes...

Re-upping this to remind everyone that this statue--part of our best evidenced dedication on the Athenian Acropolis in the late Archaic period--is on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. If you're traveling through this summer, check her out! Meanwhile, here's the open access article

BlueSky Classics peeps: what cases do we have evidence for a household slave or freedperson testifying at a trial on behalf of their domina? Either at a woman’s murder trial or in cases of domestic violence? Pontia and Octavius Sagitta is a famous one but I’m struggling to think of others…

For some reason it always surprises me when I see that birds have breath

I'm stoked to be talking with the @ukdishisthub.bsky.social folks on Wednesday! Really looking forward to our conversation

So honored to have"The White Pedestal" reviewed and offered in a drawing from @workingclassicists.bsky.social! If you don't win but still want the book use promo code WHPED for 30% off from @yalebooks.bsky.social yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Delighted to share our Parthenon at Illinois project website is now live — in English AND in Greek! go.illinois.edu/parthenon Excited to share our progress and (as a little preview) here’s some mini replicas of the statue outside the library that Mary made to test the equipment ☺️

I didn't expect this to happen but I'm happy to announce that "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available as an audiobook! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Find the full Ancient Egypt and Disability zine free here : linktr.ee/disabilityark #disabilitystudies #ancientegypt #egyptology #egypt #disability

yes this was self-incriminating!!

Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Our new free zine Ancient Greece and Disability is out now : files.libcom.org/files/2026-0...

Looking for a fun YouTube channel focusing on archaeology, by a very smart and capable and very occasionally funny archaeologist? Check out Dr. Hugh Thomas, who recently did a video about the domestication of dogs: youtu.be/F_d-uffltg8?...

we can choose not to use AI generated resources.

That’s where Id look for sure

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Greece & Rome Vol. 73 , No. 1 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social @pacman343.bsky.social @debscavator.bsky.social @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social @rhiannone.bsky.social

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… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can pre-order now! www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...

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

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...

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

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

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

with alt text!

New drop from Maximus Planudes on the Anti-Empathy Movement and the End of the Iliad. planudes.medium.com/the-anti-emp...

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...

just a quick shoutout to this excellent resource, which I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching this term. so far we've read its excerpts of Kebra Nagast, Petrarch, Leo Africanus, Bartolomé de las Casas, The Florentine Codex, Winckelmann, and Phillis Wheatley Peters

If you're making a list, I also won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's a nominee for President

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff7 (March 13, 2026), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, co-organized with Elke Nash. Keynote: Samuel Agbamu (@samagbamu.bsky.social). Registration is now open: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-7-2...

ResDiff, now in its 7th (!) year is always such a great gathering and I've often thought the stated focus on inequity in Classics, while certainly an impt link between presentations, somewhat understates the range of types of interventions you'll hear. Honored to be part of yet another great lineup

The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉 archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

I just turned over my portion of a writing project to my co-author and sure, maybe it IS months late, and sure, maybe my co-author needs to fix a bunch of things that I cannot myself resolve, but I did something and now I can turn to my other co-authored piece that I'm behind on 🙏