Javal Coleman

My former Greek professor Steve White left me a box of some 19th century editions of Demosthenes. I have been scared to lift them as I am afraid they will crumple instantly 🤣🤣.

Four more job apps submitted. It’s time for some rest.

Got the funding secured for the SCS. Haven’t been in person since 2023 in NOLA so I am pretty hype to be able to be there in person in Boston! Hope to catch up with some folks in January!

This week I’ll start working on the fourth dissertation chapter. It’s crazy to think I’ve written as much of this thing as I have but I’m excited to dig into some more research and get into writing. Something about Sale law…. 🧐🧐🧐🤓🤓

isaw.nyu.eduAssociate Professor, Computational Humanities and Roman ArchaeologyThe Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Hum...

Four job apps submitted so far in the same term where I am continuing to progress this dissertation and teaching an intermediate Latin course.

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Tom Elliott

@paregorios.bsky.social

17 Sept

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Humanities and on Roman Archaeology. See further: isaw.nyu.edu/jobs/computa...

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Mateusz Fafinski

@calthalas.bsky.social

16 Sept

How do we think about the "Fall" of Rome today? What can we do to frame it in a more productive way? Our new open access article tries to tackle these questions and offer a new view of the scholarly narrative of the end of Rome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge CoreTowards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

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Evan Vossman

@evanvossman.bsky.social

15 Sept

I’m officially presenting a paper at the "Jesus and Slavery: New Quests, Methods, and Perspectives" conference entitled "More Than the Twelve? Enslaved Labor at the Last Supper.” It will blend Roman slavery scholarship, archaeology, and Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” to explore the

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3 Sept

So I got asked today. Are you a classicist, a Roman historian, or a legal historian? 🤣

statesman.comUT proposes cutting more than 100 'narrow' courses from core this springUT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.

3 Sept

www.statesman.com/news/educati... Bad bad not good.

2 Sept

Library haul for today. There will be more to grab tomorrow 🤣🤓

30 Aug

Going to submit the first job application today.

@bunyaminanderson.bsky.social

27 Aug

Okay, this week has reminded me how much I love teaching Latin. We’ve been reading Caesar’s BG and I am having so much fun so far with my students.

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Benjamin Anderson

26 Aug

We’re hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology. Please share far and wide!

academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, History of Art and Visual Studies Job #AJO32482, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

25 Aug

Gave my students a diagnostic quiz for my intermediate Latin class yesterday and uhhh we got some rust to shake off for sure 🤣🤣.

17 Aug

“We should never forget that there also are forces outside to be fought against in the battle to be human, with Black and brown lives on the line. Why seek respite or comfort in critical fabulation and the theories of Black feminist thought if we won’t engage and stand up for those lives?”.

17 Aug

The bars by @lylaahlb.bsky.social

15 Aug

Lord forbid you’re Black and you make a bad choice. All it takes is one for your life to be devalued. They are just waiting for any opportunity to say why our lives are worth less. Why our lives should be scrutinized more. This is existence for us.

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Mateusz Fafinski

@calthalas.bsky.social

14 Aug

Proofs! Coming to you soon in the Journal of Roman Studies (in full open access)

10 Aug

Been so busy with the diss and now application materials that I nearly forgot I get to teach Caesar and Vergil in Latin for the first time this fall which is pretty neat!

31 July

My daughter starts kindergarten in two weeks. It feels like it was just yesterday that I was holding her in one hand while having seminar over zoom during Covid…

29 July

Well folks. I’ve officially started working on job materials for my first application. Going on the market.

22 July

So went on vacation which has helped refresh my mind but I’ve now experienced jet lag for the first time having left the country. I got back on Monday and getting back into working mode has been a struggle. 🙃🙃

22 July

I hope that this is just normal 🥹

18 July

Haven’t seen the Odyssey yet. Honestly all the discourse around the movie makes me hate the idea of either watching the movie or engaging with the discourse 🤣.

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5 July

Now that I’m officially going to the SCS in Boston I gotta figure out if they’ll let me walk out to “Oh My” by Run the Jewels 🤣🤣.

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@grahseeya.bsky.social

30 June

authors need to stop thinking this is the hunger games: not only one author needs to be left standing at the end. knowledge begets knowledge. expand. include. and for the love of god have some integrity, give credit where it's due. the fact that walden chose the exact same title is just egregious.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Grateful to have contributed to all of these.

The excitement continues!!! Come to the SCS in Boston in January to see @dominicmachado.bsky.social and I give our joint paper “Uncritical Fabulation - Subjection, Subjectivity, and the Study of Slavery.” Excited to be going back to the SCS in person! 🧐🧐

@dominicmachado.bsky.social

Got my physical copy of this exciting volume! Please go read the chapters in this volume edited by @chrissieplastow.bsky.social and Hilary Lehmann.

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Dominic Machado

Pls read. @javalac.bsky.social and I working on something about this….

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classicalstudies.orgBlog: Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now | Society for Classical Studies

19 June

Out today. it means a lot for this to be published on Juneteenth and before Father’s Day. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jav...

15 June

Dramatic announcement incoming: After over 3 years yours truly has written for the SCS blog once again. Stay tuned for “Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now” this week.

29 May

Unsure of who you want to inherit? Will issue.

Neville Morley@nevillemorley.eurosky.social

Insanely overpriced edited volume? Brill issue.

29 May

@nevillemorley.eurosky.social 🤣

25 May

It’s out!!! Late on posting this but this new chapter and the volume it’s published in is out now! Shout out to Hilary Lehmann and @chrissieplastow.bsky.social for their great editorial work and to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @foodoriented.bsky.social amongst others who read this whole before!!

routledge.comGender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and SocietyIntellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have ...

25 May

If you don’t have access to this please let me know as I’d be happy to email a copy of my chapter! Here is the link to the whole volume published with Routledge. www.routledge.com/Gender-Statu...

22 May

Yet another reason to root against the New York Giants..