If you're looking for something fantastic to read this summer, I've made a book list for Shepherd.com 📚, The Best Books On Amazing Ancient Women By Amazing Modern Women featuring Bettany Hughes💙, Sarah B Pomeroy, Emma Southon, Honor Cargill-Martin & Adrienne Mayor 📚: shepherd.com/best-books/ama…

As we celebrate #Juneteenth, let us keep in mind that African Americans during the Civil War distinguished between *abolishing slavery* and *freeing people.* Many formerly enslaved people did not feel *free* in 1865 and thereafter, and they clearly articulated why. A thread 1/

Still no updates from British Airways and no customer assistance or ETA on a checked bag that's now been missing for 3 days. Bets on whether or when I'll see it again? Will it arrive before I depart this weekend on another BA flight? Regretting my choice of airline.

I just downloaded this OPEN ACCESS book on Roman slavery maybe you want to do the same?! degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

I'm sorry, Dr Consuelo Martino, for your rubbish experience on British Airways. Posting EU rights as reminder for fellow travelers. Mine fell within the window if you don't count my original flight cancellation, but not if you factor in time wasted waiting for bag. evz.de/en/travelling-…

I officially graduated last month, which means my PhD thesis is finally available on the university repository - "Communication failure and civil war in Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Bellum Ciuile and Statius' Thebaid" - link here if you want to have a read! eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72102/

Claire Dederer’s new book offers unflinchingly personal answers to a question we’ve all asked ourselves: What do we do with great art by monstrous people? hyperallergic.com/836421/when-do…

"full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor to research and teach ROMAN HISTORY in a global context, which might involve empire studies, citizenship, reception, comparative approaches, post-colonial approaches, or migration and mobility" careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/18968…

Honored to review Claire Dederer's compulsively readable new book "Monsters" for hyperallergic this month. Pick it up & you won't put it down!

The deadline for submissions to the 2023 Erich S. Gruen Prize is October 6, 2023! The prize is awarded to the best graduate research paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean. Learn more: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fel…

The National Humanities Center (National Humanities Center) is accepting applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships for scholars from all areas of the humanities. Applications are due October 5, 2023: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fello…

We are ECSTATIC to announce our 2023 WCC award recipients! Join us in celebrating these amazing scholars! We plan to celebrate them and their papers at SCS 2024 in Chicago. Until then, you can click here to read more about their prize-winning work. wccclassics.org/award-winners

Exciting news - the Classics Department at Holy Cross is running a search for a TT Assistant Professor who specializes in ancient Mediterranean cultures and languages beyond Greece and Rome, beginning Fall 2024. Ad below, please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/130024

Humanities Research Centre Humanities Research Centre, ANU Visiting Fellows: Dr Lucy C M M Jackson (Durham) 12 Feb-8 Mar [..Disruption, Repair, & the Ancient Greek Chorus]; A/Prof Nandini Pandey Dr Nandini Pandey 🌈 🌏 🏛 (JHU) 6 May-1 July [Roman Diversity: Imperial Everywheres & Everywhens] hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/news/hrc-annou…

Congratulations to the winners of the Rudolph Masciantonio Grants for K-12 Educators: Hannah Casey, Julie Holt, John Roche, Tomas Alicea, Brady Eskilson, and Henry Upton! Learn more about the Rudolph Masciantonio Grants: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fel…

Be sure to check out The Walters Art Museum's immersive "Ethiopia at the Crossroads" before it closes March 3! A pleasure to review this unforgettable Baltimore show with Lauren Cook of Johns Hopkins University for hyperallergic. hyperallergic.com/874375/ethiopi…