My book, "Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire (149 BCE to 79 CE)" is officially under contract at Oxford University Press. I'm hopeful it'll come out some time next year!

Got word from the team @princetonupress.bsky.social that advanced copies of my book are arriving at the press (they sent me this photo of it in the wild)! So excited to be able to hold it in my hands!

just received proofs of my latest article, forthcoming with postmedieval journal: "The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses." (a new reading of the Phaethon myth in Bks 1 and 2)

Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Dwarf Maiden on the Athenian Acropolis: Disability and Dedication in the Archaic Polis

The study of ancient Greek sculpture is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude notions of bodily difference and disability. I...

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Coming out later this year hopefully...

Not this attack on Canvas happening just when I need to grade everything…

Sometimes those overdue article revisions really can be done in just a day or two--it just takes will power and the headspace from the end of the semester to get there.

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 70 (2025) www.jstor.org/stable/e2744... @jstor.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social #openaccess @quidamabo.bsky.social

In case you didn't already know, the wonderful, generous, brilliant Annetta Alexandridis has passed away. I still remember going to Israel & Jordan with her for 2 weeks about 10 years ago. She modeled many behaviours as an academic I can only hope to one day imitate. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle

Annetta Alexandridis, a classical archaeologist known for her hands-on approach to research and teaching, died April 13 in New York City.

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Putting out my annual call for guest speakers for the AAR Classical Summer School - if you're going to be in Italy from June 15 - July 17, please do get in touch and maybe you can lend your guest expertise!

Today I taught the Netflix docudrama series "Roman Empire: Reign of Blood", the Caligula season, as an ad hoc addition to the end of semester, and I didn't realize that something like this could be this BAD. Very bad. Both the documentary and the drama elements.

Does anyone else get a lot of article ideas from teaching? I’ve had two ideas from my “Ancient Rome in the Movies” and refinement of others by teaching a slavery course too —this semester alone.

On point as ever 🔥🔥🔥

Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 9mo ago

so what conclusions should we come to when BMCR publishes a review of a scholar removed from his post for sexual harassment, followed by this review just days later?

Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.

Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')@profyarrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Important to note that Goldhill had critiqued @platanoclassics.bsky.social for interrogating the erotics of scholarship vis-a-vis sexual harassment just last year. And I wonder why? Scholars creating preemptive/retrospective apologetics for their crimes? bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...

Dr Christine Plastow@chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Unsurprising, which makes me sad, because it indicates how whisper networks operate to try (and fail) to protect survivors without any actual consequences for perpetrators.

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

Finally got my hands on @khuemoeller.bsky.social’s new book! Can’t wait to dig into it. Love the idea of looking at five lives.

New reads for the very long “to read” list!

Historians of New World / Black Atlantic / Transatlantic slavery --any good pieces of conceptualization of enslaved people as "thinking tools" at all (or even just as "akin to tools")? (Lots for the Greek and Roman worlds, but wondering if these notions made their way over into this later period).

what do we think of the new Clauss-Slaby resdesign? I am finding searching by publication tricky (CIL is fine, but it doesn't seem to work well for ILS, for example). edcs.hist.uzh.ch/de/

Is it no surprise that the one classicist that pops up in the Epstein files database is none other than Thomas Hubbard, soliciting money for a conference on sexual consent and Title IX? And this was in 2015, well after his conviction... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Antichthon Vol. 58 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @selsvold.bsky.social @quidamabo.bsky.social @stephanieframpton.bsky.social @catharineedwards.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

That feeling when the final pieces for a 40 chapter volume you've been co-editing for years and years with six other editors are finally in and ready to go to proofs... phewwwww. Ok, now a moratorium on editing anything for at least 5 years I think.

Historia Vol. 75, No. 1 (2026) biblioscout.net/journal/hist... @quidamabo.bsky.social

Unintentionally I managed to publish an article about turning 36 as the end of one's youth (adulescentia) while still in my own 36th orbit around the sun! (This is the companion piece to the MAAR article that came out last week). biblioscout.net/article/99.1...

As I'm teaching my first class semester class devoted to Roman slavery (in comparative study with transatlantic slavery), this primer on terminology from P. Gabrielle Forman remains indispensable, not least to get your students thinking about the terms they use: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Writing about "Slavery"? This Might Help

Writing About Slavery? Teaching About Slavery? Senior slavery scholars of color community-sourced this short guide to share with and be used by editors, presses, museums, journalists and curricular ...

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My article, "Of Aediles and Villas: Aedilician Presences and Absences in Varro’s De re rustica" is now published in MAAR vol.70 (70pp. in 70!). Open access! Many amazing pieces in this very meaty volume--with great thanks to Peg Laird for helming this volume & MAAR! www.jstor.org/stable/27442...

I do not recommend writing long articles (25K+ words) if you can help it. Because then you must read over said article's copy-edits, and then proofs, multiple times. That said, I'm glad that some journals still publish long pieces!

The search for the next director of the Classical Summer School at the AAR, to start in 2027-28, is now open. Be my successor! www.aarome.org/about/open-p... Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. You’d get to shadow me for a week in 2026. Happy to answer any questions!

Open Positions

The American Academy in Rome is seeking candidates for Chief Operating Officer and Director of the American Academy in Rome Classical Summer School.

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Did this program about a decade ago, in grad school, and it was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had. If you, try to go.

Evan Jewell@quidamabo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!