Cole M Smith
@vtclassicist.bsky.social
UT Austin PhD student. UArizona Classics MA. MA Archaeology Durham🇬🇧🏺. Classics BA w/h AcadiaU 🇨🇦 Studies ceramics, ancient tech, SNA, Hellenistic period, amphora trade in the Black Sea and N. Aegean, Histria, ancient economy, identity
Made it to the ASCSA! Ready for some fun months ahead!
September 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Made it to the ASCSA! Ready for some fun months ahead!
Fun times being had at the ANS summer seminar!
June 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Fun times being had at the ANS summer seminar!
More news, I have been accepted to participate in the American Numismatic Society’s Eric P Newman Graduate Seminar in NYC (w stipend)!
Image: Roman Republican consular coin forgery from UT Austin’s Swenson Collection (For y’all coin folk, a combination of RRC 215/1 and 236/1)
Image: Roman Republican consular coin forgery from UT Austin’s Swenson Collection (For y’all coin folk, a combination of RRC 215/1 and 236/1)
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
More news, I have been accepted to participate in the American Numismatic Society’s Eric P Newman Graduate Seminar in NYC (w stipend)!
Image: Roman Republican consular coin forgery from UT Austin’s Swenson Collection (For y’all coin folk, a combination of RRC 215/1 and 236/1)
Image: Roman Republican consular coin forgery from UT Austin’s Swenson Collection (For y’all coin folk, a combination of RRC 215/1 and 236/1)
Happy to say I will be returning to Greece to take more sun-blinded selfies at archaeological sites. I have been accepted to the American School of Classical Studies’ regular member program for 2025-26 and been awarded the Virginia Grace Fellowship! 🎉
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Happy to say I will be returning to Greece to take more sun-blinded selfies at archaeological sites. I have been accepted to the American School of Classical Studies’ regular member program for 2025-26 and been awarded the Virginia Grace Fellowship! 🎉
Apparently I’m ringing in the new year by watching someone run up and down the street in their underwear setting off fireworks while yelling, “Al Gore was right after all!” Happy New Year?!
January 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Apparently I’m ringing in the new year by watching someone run up and down the street in their underwear setting off fireworks while yelling, “Al Gore was right after all!” Happy New Year?!
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Temple of Castor and Pollux, Agrigentum, Sicily
November 23, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Temple of Castor and Pollux, Agrigentum, Sicily
Reading Rostovtzeff’s SEHHW is quite the experience. If you want to make it a drinking game, every time he writes proletariat take a shot of vodka, and bourgeoisie a shot of cognac.
November 23, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Reading Rostovtzeff’s SEHHW is quite the experience. If you want to make it a drinking game, every time he writes proletariat take a shot of vodka, and bourgeoisie a shot of cognac.
New side slide project
Hieron, from the south end of the western hill, Samothrace. Photo by Lucy Shoe Meritt, 1969.
August 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
New side slide project
Trying to enjoy the intermediate period in TX that is post-excavation season but before the start of the Fall term, during which is it is almost always too hot to go outside. Time for more summer reading I suppose…
August 1, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Trying to enjoy the intermediate period in TX that is post-excavation season but before the start of the Fall term, during which is it is almost always too hot to go outside. Time for more summer reading I suppose…
Successful study season at Histria is complete. Miss my transport amphora fragments already.
July 22, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Successful study season at Histria is complete. Miss my transport amphora fragments already.
Had a lovely time this week having two seminars and a special lecture, and a variety of other events, with our department guest from UC Berkeley, Mario Telò, discussing Butler’s Antigone and the art of Ana Mendieta, Edward Said, Seneca, and more.
March 23, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Had a lovely time this week having two seminars and a special lecture, and a variety of other events, with our department guest from UC Berkeley, Mario Telò, discussing Butler’s Antigone and the art of Ana Mendieta, Edward Said, Seneca, and more.
Didn’t TA last term and didn’t get Covid. First week of TAing this term and immediately got Covid…
January 22, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Didn’t TA last term and didn’t get Covid. First week of TAing this term and immediately got Covid…
The wonderful department at Acadia University that is responsible for my undergrad and nourishing my interest in Classics is hiring for TT ancient Mediterranean specialist! (in a beautiful area of Nova Scotia that typically smells great except when the tide is out). Closes Feb 9
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January 13, 2024 at 5:14 AM
The wonderful department at Acadia University that is responsible for my undergrad and nourishing my interest in Classics is hiring for TT ancient Mediterranean specialist! (in a beautiful area of Nova Scotia that typically smells great except when the tide is out). Closes Feb 9
Not able to attend SCS/AIA this year, but do have a poster collaboration with Jennifer S. Tafe and Eleni Hasaki titled “Nikosthenes’ Networks of Production and Trade” that will be present by Jen. There are also several papers by friends that work on Histria stuff with me!
December 31, 2023 at 2:55 AM
Not able to attend SCS/AIA this year, but do have a poster collaboration with Jennifer S. Tafe and Eleni Hasaki titled “Nikosthenes’ Networks of Production and Trade” that will be present by Jen. There are also several papers by friends that work on Histria stuff with me!
Wooh! Got my transport amphora samples today, time for petrography and analysis!
October 17, 2023 at 12:42 AM
Wooh! Got my transport amphora samples today, time for petrography and analysis!
No better(?) way to start the weekend than a PhD exam in ancient history
September 23, 2023 at 5:26 PM
No better(?) way to start the weekend than a PhD exam in ancient history
Having (transport) amphora Fridays has lined up my Fall semester to be so awesome!
September 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Having (transport) amphora Fridays has lined up my Fall semester to be so awesome!
Can’t believe I had to tell an undergrad not to try to pet a raccoon.
September 7, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Can’t believe I had to tell an undergrad not to try to pet a raccoon.
Come to UT (where the grad students occasionally stress bake for you)
My department is hiring again! Looking for "a Hellenist with research expertise in intellectual history or the history of science whose work expands the traditional purview of classics either methodologically, geographically, or temporally." utexas.edu/cola/depts/c...
![I omit some material that's in the main tweet.] In addition to actively researching and publishing, job responsibilities include teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses, directing honors theses and eventually dissertations, and providing service to the department, college, and university. Applicants will be expected to play a substantial role in in charting the future directions of the Department and field through research, teaching, and service.
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. no later than August 15, 2024.
Application Instructions
Applicants must upload:
a letter of interest;
a CV;
a sample of recent scholarship of no longer than 20 print pages;
a teaching portfolio which includes a table of contents and displays a variety of teaching interests and methodologies;
three letters of recommendation.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be sent to Dr. Sean Gurd at sean.gurd@austin.utexas.edu](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugoh2f7qwbzy2jnjzc2hrhsp/bafkreihf4arduiji4ai5upir2ipb4e3d3jqlj5vb325dizgpfkpvt36duu@jpeg)
September 1, 2023 at 10:22 PM
Come to UT (where the grad students occasionally stress bake for you)
Amazing to see how many die-hard Iliad ‘enthusiasts’ there are that know the exact way it’s meant to be translated from the Greek, as I could only dream of such mastery as a Classicist myself.
August 22, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Amazing to see how many die-hard Iliad ‘enthusiasts’ there are that know the exact way it’s meant to be translated from the Greek, as I could only dream of such mastery as a Classicist myself.