Virtual teaching takes so much prep!!! 😩

On this day in 1959, twenty-one Black teenagers burned to death in a building fire at a segregated and neglected “reform” school in Arkansas, after being left alone and locked inside their dorm. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

What is Zoom co-hosting if not the Roman Republican consular system persevering?

Recommended by my mentor! I had a good bittersweet laugh. So clever! #AcademicTwitter

“Keep your vaccination card in case you need to travel”. Me: “Heck yeah!”

It’s a productive morning!

Can we not get used to Zoom?

When you have a big idea in your head and in your brain there is no space for anything else... 🤯

Odi et amo

In writing a dissertation there are weeks and weeks in which I feel I am just stalling, and days in which I make sudden and unexpected progress. Today was one of the latter! 😎Rollercoaster has never been a more appropriate metaphor

Let’s go for a morning stroll

Writing letters of recommendation for my students. When I am honest, it is a pretty incredible acknowledgment of the growth I witness. Maybe I should write a letter to recommend them to them. “I strongly recommend you to yourself”. Better than an A, in my opinion #TeachHuman

Shout out to UF Library West during #NationalLibraryWeek. You are my home away from home. I don’t know how I could do my dissertation without you and the wonderful people who work there!

The editorial board of the Proceedings of the University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposia (PCGSS) is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 1 of our open access journal. Access it here: journals.flvc.org/PCGSS/. #GatorClassics

Public Dissertation Announcement: Alberto De Simoni (Alberto De Simoni) will defend his dissertation “Power to Punish and Authority to Forgive: Imperial State and Imprisonment in 4th Century AD Antioch” on Tuesday, June 21 at 3pm. Please DM us for Zoom links!

When you & your grad school bestie DO THE THING in the same week!!!

Our graduate students have published Volume 2 of their open-access journal Selected Proceedings of the Classics Graduate Student Symposia! journals.flvc.org/PCGSS/ Alberto De Simoni Anastasia Pantazopoulou Charissa Skoutelas Anthony Smith #gatorclassics