Pasts Imperfect (2.5.26) This week, medievalist and historian of race Cord J. Whitaker discusses the National Park Service's removal of an exhibit on American slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. T...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Medievalist & historian of race @profcwhit.bsky.social discusses NPS' removal of plaques documenting slavery in Philly 🔔 Then, the ceramics of Roberto Lugo, a new DH project on the artifacts of refugees, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more

Yale professors Tarren Andrews and David Watts urge Yale to defend academic freedom!

The Yale AAUP and Faculty Senate have proposed contract changes to protect free speech and free inquiry at our university. Now, we need the university to defend its core values.

yaledailynews.com/articles/why...

Office hours: Getting to know Ra'anan Boustan

so grateful for a new proximate colleague at Yale! @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-11...

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New issue of Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 28, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social @lsnasrallah.bsky.social

@elotroalex.bsky.social --we have met, in your office, over other matters. so much respect. Let's enjoy a research convo. Thanks, as always and always, @sarahebond.bsky.social

This is an URGENT issue of university governance...

Trip to ancient sites offers students ‘ethical and intimate encounter By Kim Lawton

divinity.yale.edu/news/trip-an... Grateful to @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social Yale ISM, @yalemacmillan.bsky.social for this opportunity to teach and travel.

Thanks for the news, Carrie, and thank you, @emuehlbe.bsky.social , for taking on this huge and important role!!!

Thanks for your work!!

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Congratulations! I see your assistant got a manicure before the book presentation.

It's officially publication day!
Mirah is helping me promote the book since she has served as editorial assistant from birth. If you plan to acquire a copy, use code P327 for 30% off princetonupress.bsky.social. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

ACLS President Joy Connolly Signs AAC&U Statement Against Government Overreach On behalf of ACLS, President Joy Connolly has signed on to a statement from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) pushing back “against the unprecedented government overreach a...

ACLS President Joy Connolly has signed on to an @aacu.org statement in response to ongoing government overreach and political interference endangering American higher education: www.acls.org/news/acls-pr...

The statement is signed by 170+ university, college, and scholarly society presidents.

Yale faculty urge administrators to defend academic freedom Around 900 faculty signed a letter to President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel calling for “courageous leadership” in the face of attacks on higher education.

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...

How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide. (Gift Article) A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/s...

have you downloaded your PDF yet? you have until April 23!!

thank you!!!

thanks thanks thanks!!!!!

couldn't hv done it without your support! so grateful!

grateful for this, for those who wrote on my behalf, and esp to @acls1919.bsky.social leadership for its vision for advocacy, collective voice, and telling our (research) stories inspired by and engaged with large publics.

you deserve all the best antiquity nerd stickers, Sarah. 💕 @artofmarza.bsky.social is also the best.

I preordered mine!!!

UVA: beyond fortunate to hv you!

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In Memoriam: Bentley Layton (1941–2025) iacs-coptic.org/in-memoriam-...

aw, thanks, Sarah. I'd never claim to be an epigrapher tho---just a social historian and religious studies type who uses the hard hard work of all the others... So grateful for your scholarship, too! I've been thinking with my students about murex at Andriake!!!

A book cover: the art has a squatty wide mouth Roman glass jar from the Cleveland Art Museum at the lower half center. It is shot from an mildly overhead angle so you can see a little into the jar. The jar is mostly covered in shiny gold leaf, but it also has iridescent brighter color variations in the surface: a pinky-orange, a little green, and spot of striking teal. The jar is backlit, such that in front of it lie two shadows, one umbra and one penumbra. All of this is on a slightly soft white background. Then, my name is across the top in a green that matches the jar's green; the subtitle is at the foot of the image, in a reddish orange that picks up the jar's orange sheen, and---most stunning---the title, Things Unseen, is in a medium light blue that echoes the edge of the teal spot on the jar, and, get this, it is slightly tucked in to the opening of the jar, so that "Things" is fully on the white background but "Unseen" is stacked directly below it and only just the top tips of the letters are on the white, while the mid letters are against the interior of the jar, and the very bottom edge of the letters in "Unseen" is tucked into the jar and thus obscured. The effect is that the title appears to rise out of the jar! And, as you inspect it, it draws attention to a slight chip and crack on the left side of the opening of the jar. Tl;dr the University of California Press designer absolutely slayed

Coming soon!
Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World---from @ucpress.bsky.social

gorgeous cover. so excited. congratulations, Ellen!