Haven’t seen the Odyssey yet. Honestly all the discourse around the movie makes me hate the idea of either watching the movie or engaging with the discourse 🤣.

Now that I’m officially going to the SCS in Boston I gotta figure out if they’ll let me walk out to “Oh My” by Run the Jewels 🤣🤣.

authors need to stop thinking this is the hunger games: not only one author needs to be left standing at the end. knowledge begets knowledge. expand. include. and for the love of god have some integrity, give credit where it's due. the fact that walden chose the exact same title is just egregious.

Grateful to have contributed to all of these.

The excitement continues!!! Come to the SCS in Boston in January to see @dominicmachado.bsky.social and I give our joint paper “Uncritical Fabulation - Subjection, Subjectivity, and the Study of Slavery.” Excited to be going back to the SCS in person! 🧐🧐

Got my physical copy of this exciting volume! Please go read the chapters in this volume edited by @chrissieplastow.bsky.social and Hilary Lehmann.

Pls read. @javalac.bsky.social and I working on something about this….

It is 2026, and people still think Saidiya Hartman and Natalie Zemon Davis invented historical information in their works. I am by no means an expert on critical fabulation, but it is not a practice about making up historical information.

Out today. it means a lot for this to be published on Juneteenth and before Father’s Day. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jav...

Dramatic announcement incoming: After over 3 years yours truly has written for the SCS blog once again. Stay tuned for “Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now” this week.

Unsure of who you want to inherit? Will issue.

It’s out!!! Late on posting this but this new chapter and the volume it’s published in is out now! Shout out to Hilary Lehmann and @chrissieplastow.bsky.social for their great editorial work and to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @foodoriented.bsky.social amongst others who read this whole before!!

Yet another reason to root against the New York Giants..

Yea I am definitely cooked. I was reading how these two different Roman jurists interpret a law and I chuckled to myself. It’s so over. @antiquethought.bsky.social

BREAKING: Victor Wembanyama becomes the youngest player in NBA history to win Defensive Player of the Year 👽

 The 22-year-old also becomes the first unanimous winner.

Am I the only one that thinks it would be dope to have an entrance theme at academic conferences like they do in WWE.????

This next week in my ancient slavery course I’m giving a lecture on slavery and early Christianity as well as having a discussion day for some readings in scholarship and primary sources. Very excited for this important topic. 🧐🧐

New open access article by Kostas Vlassoupoulos on “Slave Agency” brill.com/downloadpdf/...

83 points for BAM! This is insane….

Just saw a professor come out of their office crying and clutching Karl Marx’s Capital….. 🤔 that’s like a knives out type mystery right there.

While it’s still February I wanna talk about Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly which in my opinion is one of the greatest music albums period! Jazz, rap, r&b, soul, rock, it’s fused with so many genres and it does everything well. Punchy bars, heartbreaking themes, and perspective on the hood.

A big proofs day!!! I worked on this chapter for a long time and it’s so exciting to finally see it in this form! This is part of a wonderful volume edited by @chrissieplastow.bsky.social and @hilarylehmann. Shoutout to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @antiquethought.bsky.social

It’s so funny to me that people are more worried about being accused of being racist rather than worrying about if they are actually being racist. It’s like the accusation is worse than the fact that they are racist.

Gonna be sharing some of my favorite music albums this month. I’ll start with one that’s in my top ten. 2 Pac’s All Eyez on Me.

That point in the dissertation where you…

Come on now it’s from @caperry.bsky.social need I say more!??

This guy is brilliant!

Last week on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. @egarcmol.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discussed specializing in the Seleucid Empire, challenges of working with limited historical records, and his course on gaming and ancient history.

Today was “syllabus day” for my ancient slavery course. On Thursday we will be discussing the definitional issue. Very much looking forward to that conversation with my students!

This book is excellent and is written by a fantastic scholar!! 👏👏. Congratulations @tiamopatata.bsky.social on a great accomplishment.

Well as a cowboys fan let me go ahead and get this over with. My summary of the season.

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🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude. The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)." The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.

Do y’all prefer long footnotes or long endnotes? I’ll admit that I tend to prefer the former though am often distracted by them 🤣🤣.

The dissertation is dissertating. ‘Nough said.

We still reviewing this dude’s stuff in big 2025???

Why are we even seeing dude’s name pop up? I shouldn’t even see dude’s name in my email notifications. Why is dude still being published? How does dude still have a platform? We really separating the scholar from the scholarship in 2025? What a joke.

Shout out to @dominicmachado.bsky.social for making my visit to Holy Cross so enjoyable and enriching!

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Assistant Professor job with University of Maryland - College Park | 37879935 jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879935...

My conversation with @javalac.bsky.social on his chapter from Ancient Slavery and It’s New TestamentContexts is available now for $5 a month on Patreon. Look for it to drop everywhere else next Wednesday!

the ole grind

David Cornswet is Superman. He just is.

Please see the new episode of this podcast featuring yours truly! Talking about Roman slavery and slavery in the New Testament. youtu.be/qcs91KA-Azg?...

"A review written in transparent prose can be translated via Google or Deepl with great accuracy" Not sure whether forcing your colleagues to use AI just because language skills among Anlophones is collapsing is really a good look. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

My fellow academics, do y’all ever move around your house to get a change of pace while working? For example, I’ll go from working at my actually office at home to the table in the dining room or to the couch. Though the couch is dangerous sometimes 😂

I 100000% recommend watching this movie. It’s easily a 9.5/10. I would say it’s almost as good as Get Out (if you haven’t seen Get Out I cannot help you). Ryan Coogler’s best film to date!

woo hoo! This is such an amazing program. Taking applications now!

Man this guy talks with hands a lot. 😂😂

Along with re-branding their EDIB Office as a capitulation to segregationists, Harvard’s also not funding affinity group celebrations preceding graduation for Arab, Black, Indigenous, Latine, FGLI, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Desi students www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...