Included is a state-of-the-field piece about disability in antiquity (open access), which I co-wrote with @horusofnekhen.bsky.social and @tibg1312.bsky.social. See where we're at with this subfield!

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...

Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit! www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

🚨🚨🚨 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...

CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

Congratulations to Vice President Roxanne Brown who has been elected as our next international president! “I am beyond humbled & honored to serve as the USW’s next president," said Brown. Read more at: usw.ca/new-usw-leaders-prepare-to-take-office/

Heads up, UIUC Classics is accepting applications for MAT and MA/PhD programs for fall 2026. All resident grads are supported by full tuition waivers and a combo of fellowships TAships, and RAships. For any questions, Dan Leon ([email protected]) is our fearless DGS and I'll link our website below.

Coming Soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

Coming up, I'm giving some talks, including a free online talk about my newest project, which is focused on Greek sculpture and the place of disability within it, on Sunday, October 19 at 10am Central:

My review of @sarahebond.bsky.social's latest book, Strike, just came out in the Classical Journal! It was a pleasure to read and review and I really hope everyone will check it out!

New post on Humanist! Do I think fondly on (or even remember) oral exams in grad school? No. But do I want to experiment with them now, especially after reading more literature about how to use them to engage students in deep learning? Yes. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky

Was (or is) your campus experience one of conforming to norms, or challenging them? @publicsource.org wants your take on academic freedom for potential inclusion in our new series "Gagging Academia" www.publicsource.org/academic-fre...

A heads up that many many academic books are on this list! Find out if yours is here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...

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yesterday @eosafricana.bsky.social sent out their notice for Eos WRITES, which is a really great opportunity to work on writing, give feedback, and build community. here’s their link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

People of the Boston area! If you're around Tufts on September 24, I'd love to see you come out to this talk, which will be open to the public.

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

WHAT!?! I honestly cannot wait to read this!!!

Teaching beginning Latin or ancient Greek this year? Feeling daunted by the prospect of overburdened students, AI cheating, and hostile admin? Join us to swap strategies for a successful semester! TODAY!!!

I may still update the sex work reading (Perhaps a new piece by @anisekstrong.bsky.social !) and I'm looking for a newer reading for the non-binary bodies unit, but here's the relaunch of my sex and gender research mythologies seminar OER. All materials are free to use. clas4032.wordpress.com

Our AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI is tomorrow!!! I promise @apistone.bsky.social and I won't spend *too much* time ranting about the AHA's new guidelines. Don't forget to register! #TeachAncient

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.

A great post on classroom discussion! I especially love the quotation from bell hooks on having students read their written work aloud in class, which I'm definitely adopting for my writing class this semester!

Come hang out with me and @ellenleephd.bsky.social to talk about AI and teaching on August 7! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Come hang out with us for this upcoming workshop (August 12)! It's led by the brilliant @ellenleephd.bsky.social (with me as her trusty sidekick) who is so smart and thoughtful about language pedagogy and I am so excited to learn from her! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Today on the blog, SN Yeager and Victoria Austen discuss Classics and unionization for the Contingent Faculty series. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/sn-...

Teaching beginning language students this year? Join me and @apistone.bsky.social for a conversation about how *hard* it is to teach ancient languages right now and what we can do about it.

Me and @apistone.bsky.social, back at it again! This year, we're designing the kind of workshop we've desperately wanted to attend over the past few months, but haven't found: an AI workshop for people who hate AI. Come chat with us about the plagiarism machine!

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest! ClassicsBlueSky AncientBlueSky

I thought I could no longer be surprised at the lengths to which my alma mater would go to violate its students' civil rights, but I was wrong! This is beyond the pale, reckless and obscene behavior for a so-called public institution.

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

"The theme for the Pittsburgh National Day of Action for higher education event on April 17 was clear: “We are stronger together and we are what makes higher ed strong,” as the opening speaker said." Hmm, wonder who said that? 😉 www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/rally-h...

As Congresswoman Summer Lee said: “The power of the people is still — it is still — greater than the people in power,” she said. “But only if we wield it." #DayofActionforHigherEd

Thanks so much for joining us, @repsummerlee.bsky.social! Solidarity forever!#DayofActionforHigherEd

When higher ed is under attack, stand up, fight back! #DayofActionforHigherEd

We did this, y'all! #DayofActionforHigherEd

This is what being principled Mayor looks like. We need a mayor who stands up for EVERY student and their right to be safe and freely express themselves without fear of visa revocation and ICE detention. Thank you, @gaineyformayor.com

One week until the Day of Action for Higher Education on 4/17! #Pittsburgh #HigherEd folks, my union is organizing a rally in Schenley Plaza at noon; spread the word! (Definitely the biggest event I've ever personally organized!) Anyone else planning actions on their campuses for 4/17? #AcademicSky

My article, "The Life of Terence, Revisited," has now been published open access in NECJ. I discuss how classicists have historically denied Terence’s blackness out of a belief that “humanistic” or linguistic excellence could not be reconciled with blackness. crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol52/i...

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Anybody have ideas for short-form receptions of Ovid's Metamorphoses? I'm looking for poems, short stories, visual art, etc., especially by marginalized creators. Ideas, #AncientBlueSky?

Today on the blog, Arum Park (@profarumpark.bsky.social) shares her experiences doing research on demographics, race/ethnicity, and DEI in Classics. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...

My final blog post as an Associate Editor of the SCS Communications Committee. With shoutouts to a number of cool folks and especially to @aaacc.bsky.social