The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

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got the new covid shot today, no hassle, at a cvs. getting ahead of campus disease cycles.

On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.

Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology.

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Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology.

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I teach both on the same day. Both are exhausting.

Published last month, after 5 years with editors and press… Volume looks amazing. I am ch 16.

Almost finished with this baby. Only took me 4 years to write. All that is left is a final round of clean up edits, some additional notes, and then some backmatter and the image permissions (I will make my maps when I am back in the US). So happy to be publishing this with @yalepress.bsky.social.

Admin committed.

I know! Thus the shock.

exegesis?!

For those who have access, my new entry for “metics” in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (replacing D. Whitehead’s) has gone live. much more thorough and includes non-Athenian metics.

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Proofs. Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Cultural History of Poverty, edited by Claire Taylor.

Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...

Love him.

My daughter has fenced in do many tournaments across the US as the only or one of the only women in the event. Its so normal to have mixed events.

That is a weird citation. I’ve translated the Airs and it makes zero sense to have it cited in this way. This may be a case of an erroneous footnote that has been continually repeated. This is not uncommon, sadly.

Help support students w/o the means participate in excavations, summer programs abroad or summer language programs? Help us build our s holarship endowment! We currently have no departmental endowed funds, but our students need financial support that the uni & external scholarships can’t provide.

Athenian Properties Families. Though it needs an update.

As I always like to remind myself and everyone -- just because some man throws money at a woman after sex doesn't mean she was a sex worker (enslaved aren't sex workers, bc "worker" implies agency). I would not translate that word as brothel, & wouldn't call a place one unless purpose built for it.

If, however, these are just VAPs, that’s wrong to call them Asst Prof.

But is is limited. Assistant professorships are often broken into multiple pre-tenure review periods at which stages the person could be not renewed. Some have 2-year periods, some 3. Ours is 3 plus 1 if not renewed, 3+3 if renewed. Nothing is unlimited until tenure.

Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary.

THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.

Need to differentiate myself from the horror…