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Evan Jewell

@quidamabo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University - Camden. Roman history, epigraphy, archaeology inter alia. Views are my own. He/him.

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 30/09/2026
It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...
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Res Diff 3.1 (2026)
Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…
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Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is always a pleasure to read @sarahebond.bsky.social, but this time around I got to review her, too. It's in the latest AHR: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Sarah E. Bond. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire.
There is a long tradition of caution among Roman historians. Anachronism, modern terms, values, and frameworks can all easily overwhelm our fragmentary sou
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jill Lepore on what I have been calling “the outsourcing of the American mind”. Thankfully in my department we have pushed back & gone analog primarily. No tech in classrooms (unless accommodations), most assessments are in-class, note taking graded for credit. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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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Associate Professor, Computational Humanities and Roman Archaeology
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 Hum...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Yale Review | How Mary Barnard Invented the Sappho We Fell In… yalereview.org/article/emil...
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How Mary Barnard Invented the Sappho We Fell In Love With
Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard, Anne Carson, and how translators have interpreted Sappho.
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Looking ahead to December, our volume, "Mobility and Migration in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World Through Movement" is now up on the Routledge page -- yes the price is crazy, but the volume is 712 pages long... www.routledge.com/Mobility-and...
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Mobility and Migration in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement
Mobility and Migration in Antiquity investigates human movement in the context of the ancient world from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian Ocean, addressing small-scale, everyday mobility as well as...
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For the first time in my teaching, the majority of my class assessments this semester will be "in class" assessments, and I have also introduced note-taking assessments (credit for taking decent notes, assessed every 2 weeks), inspired by a colleague. Is anyone else doing similar things?
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Working women are frequently attested in the #Roman empire: the funerary stele of Sentia Amarantis depicts the deceased tapping wine from a barrel. She was an inn-keeper and died at the age of 45. The stele was set up by her husband. From Augusta Emerita/Mérida, 3rd c. AD. #ReliefWednesday 🏺 📷 me
A fragment of a marble relief showing a woman in a long robe pouring liquid from a barrel supported by a wooden frame. An inscription below, in Latin, mentions the deceased: Sentia Amarantis.
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This encapsulates well the frustration when people not trained in history/historical fields suddenly claim AI can do the work of historians. It shows how few know what it means to do that work.
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hi all - I have now uploaded each of the itineraries for the 2024, 2025, and 2026 Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome here: www.evanjewell.net/teaching Hopefully this helps any of you who might be planning a study abroad program or similar!
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Teaching — Evan Jewell
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Recommendations for a recent Roman history narrative for undergraduates that is nuanced, digests recent research, and is readable, that is not Beard’s SPQR and is not a textbook per se?
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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!
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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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!
A hardback copy of "Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Indian Ocean Trade" by Jeremy A. Simmons standing upright on a stone bench in the lovely green courtyard of Princeton University Press.
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 06/05/2026
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)
"The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Abstract: In Ovid's Metamorphoses (1.750-2.365), the Roman poet gives an aetiology for the invention of blackness via the myth of Phaethon, whose failure to control his father's solar chariot leads to the scorching of the earth. This article situates Ovid's myth of Phaethon within ancient discourses of race, contextualizing the sequence within ancient environmental theory, racial affect theory, and the melancholic tensions of Rome's enslaving practices. The article concludes with an analysis of the reception of Ovid's myth of Phaethon in Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth (1994).
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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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....
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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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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Coming out later this year hopefully...
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Not this attack on Canvas happening just when I need to grade everything…
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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...
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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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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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!
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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.
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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.
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
On point as ever 🔥🔥🔥
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.
“His specific arguments on this topic, however, are deeply unsatisfying. First—and he calls this “obvious”—loving what and how you study “is routinely implicated in the enabling and justification of the predatory behavior that directly confronts women and people of other marginalized gender identities in the academy.” What on earth does “implicated” mean here? If you love the Iliad, you are implicated in sexual harassment? If you do sexually harass someone, you typically defend yourself because you love the Iliad? Don’t love your work as it may lead you to sexually harass someone?! “Routinely?!””
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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.
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New reads for the very long “to read” list!
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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).
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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/
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EDCS – Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Antichthon Vol. 58 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @selsvold.bsky.social @quidamabo.bsky.social @stephanieframpton.bsky.social @catharineedwards.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Historia Vol. 75, No. 1 (2026) biblioscout.net/journal/hist... @quidamabo.bsky.social
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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...
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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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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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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...
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Of Aediles and Villas: Aedilician Presences and Absences in Varro’s De re rustica Aedilician Presences and Absences in Varro’s De re rustica on JSTOR
Evan Jewell, Of Aediles and Villas, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 70 (2025), pp. 215-285
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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!
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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!
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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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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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.
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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I went as a grad student, and not only did I leave with a vastly new appreciation for Etruscan water management systems (and hate for Mussolini), it was a great way to interact with other classicists at all levels and directions in their careers. Highly recommended if you can swing it.
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Nicolaus De Missuria @deromaaliisque.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I did this back in 2000 and it was one of the best experiences of my career
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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!
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Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thinking about the recent research on towers in rich houses in Pompeii in relation to Evan Jewell's (@quidamabo.bsky.social) excellent article on wayfinding, and his point that the rich had sweeping views of the city while the poor did not www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/d...
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Discovery Suggests That the House of the Thiasos and Other Domus in Pompeii May Have Had Observation Towers
The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for centuries, may be about to acquire a new vertical dimension. A digital archaeol...
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 14/11/2025
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?
What on earth does “implicated” mean here? If you love the Iliad, you are implicated in sexual harassment? If you do sexually harass someone, you typically defend yourself because you love the Iliad? Don’t love your work as it may lead you to sexually harass someone?! “Routinely?!”
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 14/11/2025
if you are looking to send your book review to an outlet with editorial ethics (and also open access), I’d suggest NECJ crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
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New England Classical Journal | College of the Holy Cross
A publication of the Classical Association of New England, New England Classical Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, notes, and reviews on all aspects of classical an...
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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...
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Classical Summer School
This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...
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