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Sabrina Higgins

@sabrinahiggins.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Global Humanities and Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, Archaeologist, Wanderer, and Webmaster and Contributor @peoplingthepast

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unknowncollections.bsky.social @unknowncollections.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This week our class went to Burnaby Village Museum to learn from its curator, Jane Lemke. We talked about exhibit design, accessibility, and the role of museums in decolonization. Our students also got to think about how the type of space affects how you might exhibit a collection.
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University is seeking to fill one continuing Teaching Faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer in Archaeology, with a preferred start date of January 1, 2027. Application deadline: September 30, 2026 Details: buff.ly/TuXkZ0Y
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re back!
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Calling all Classicists! The Department of Global Humanities is at SFU is hiring a Classicist (Assistant Professor, T-T) with expertise in the social, literary and rhetorical worlds of Ancient Greece. Apply to come work with my amazing colleagues and I next year: www.sfu.ca/globalhumani...
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SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies @sfuhellenic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
SNF Centre Director Dr. @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social was invited to present in Athens at the SNF Nostos Conference in the panel on "Why does Hellenic studies matter to us all?" Check out the full conversation here: snfnostos.org/en/festival-...
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Why does Hellenic studies matter for all of us? - SNF Nostos
Why does Hellenic studies matter for all of us?. A session at SNF Nostos 2026, Athens, June 21–28. Free admission. See the full program at snfnostos.org.
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
SFU Archaeology students Jo, Kayla, and Chelsea spent their last lab day at Golemo Gradiste preparing our three charcoal samples to be sent off for C14 dating. These samples were taken from several different burned roof beams that had collapsed in their trench.
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Last Friday, the SFU team at Golemo Gradište received a visit from Dr. Dave Burley. He joined Dr. Sabrina Higgins, our current undergraduate students Kayla Blake, Jo Hughes, and Chelsea Noble, SFU Archaeology PhD candidate Goran Sanev (and co-director of the project),
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
SFU student Kayla Blake excavated a collapsed brick and mortar arch last week at the site of Golemo Gradište in North Macedonia, where she is volunteering with Dr. Sabrina Higgins. @sfuhumanities.bsky.social @sfuhellenic.bsky.social
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The 2026 field season at Golemo Gradište in North Macedonia is underway. This year SFU archaeology students Jo Hughes, Chelsea Noble, and Kayla Blake have joined Dr. Sabrina Higgins as volunteers on the project, where they are excavating part of a late antique church.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We continue our Earth Month series with a #PeoplingBlog post from Andrew Fox @acfox.bsky.social. Here, Andrew introduces us to the ways in which Roman writers contemplated the potential health benefits of integrating green spaces into the city of Rome: peoplingthepast.com/2026/04/17/b...
Graphic featuring a landscape photograph of the city of Rome skyline, interspersed with trees and greenery. The text around the image reads “Healthy Living in Rome’s Green Spaces with Andrew Fox”.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Our latest instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, features the exciting pedagogical work of @egarcmol.bsky.social. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom: peoplingthepast.com/2026/03/27/b...
Graphic featuring a collage of screen grabs from gaming platforms and the text "Let's Play Antiquity with Eduardo García-Molina"
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Learn more about Archaeology at the Burnaby Village Museum this Spring Break with SFU Professors Dr. Cara Tremain and Dr. Sabrina Higgins! March 18, 20, 25, 27 from 11am to 3:30pm. Please see the link for details. buff.ly/WnkLrzS @sfuhumanities.bsky.social @sfuhellenic.bsky.social
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Le Droit donne la parole au département sur la re-suspension. « On a un rayonnement, une visibilité » - Geoffrey Greatrex sur l'importance du programme pour la communauté Lisez et partagez. buff.ly/AAHyvK2 #SOSÉtudesAnciennesUO #ONfr #DroitsLinguistiques #uOttawa @ledroit.com
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À l’U d’O, le seul programme d’études anciennes en français vacille encore
Le programme d’études en Antiquité grecque et romaine est de nouveau suspendu à l’Université d’Ottawa. Faute d’un nombre d’inscriptions suffisant pour la rentrée 2026, le baccalauréat spécialisé —…
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Timeline of harm to Franco-Ontarian students: Oct 2025: French classics program suspended Jan 2026: "Reinstated" after pressure Feb 2026: Re-suspended after 10 weeks buff.ly/UtgW0vq #SOSClassicsUO #ONfr #LanguageRights #uOttawa #Ottawa
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campaign - Antiquité | Religions | Classics: Ottawa
update: UNIVERSITY of ottawa RE-SUSPENDS greek and roman studies! ALERTE : L'Université d'Ottawa RE-SUSPEND Antiquité grecque et romaine suspension of
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just a reminder that we are now accepting applications for our Post-Doc in Hellenic Studies at SFU.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We are thrilled to have been recognised by the Archaeological Institute of America with a Public Engagement Award! Congratulations to all of the other fantastic winners 🥳 www.archaeological.org/congratulati...
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News - Congratulations to the AIA's Inaugural Public Engagement Award Winners! - Archaeological Institute of America
news from the AIA
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Do you want to be on the Peopling the Past Podcast next season? Does your work insect the ancient and the modern? Fill out the Google form below if you’re interested.
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We are now accepting applications for our post-doc. This year we are looking specifically for a scholar who can teach a course on Ancient Athenian democracy to fill a gap in our teaching complement. Please consider applying to join our incredible team at SFU.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
In this week’s #PeoplingBlog, Dr. Marta Alberti-Dunn reflects on her research on the history of volunteers on Hadrian’s Wall and the evolution of those tasked with performing skilled labour on the excavation of this site: peoplingthepast.com/2025/12/19/b... 🧵/1
Marta and a group of volunteers stand together with a banner for the Vindolanda Excavations 2024-2028. You can see Hadrian’s Wall in the background.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This week’s #PeoplingBlog features the work of Uzma Z. Rizvi, whose project at MohenjoDaro in Pakistan highlights the ways in which archaeologists can engage in decolonial approaches in their use of legacy data through the framework of an archaeology of care: peoplingthepast.com/2025/11/28/b... 🧵/1
Uzma is seen with a colleague photographing accession cards in a light box.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In today’s new #PeoplingBlog, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and discusses the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site: peoplingthepast.com/2025/11/21/b... 🧵/1
Graphic featuring a central image of a segment of Roman scale armor and the blog title “Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman”
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Honoured that @peoplingthepast.bsky.social gets to host this absolute 🔥🔥🔥 manifesto on the treatment of Egyptian mummified ancestral remains written by our colleagues at Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project. This is a must read! peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...
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Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritag...
In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways …
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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
More than 1,000 signatures in just 3 days! Plus de 1 000 signatures en seulement 3 jours! Keep signing & sharing the petition to save Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa. Continuez à signer et à partager! buff.ly/1azgdKV #ottawa #SOSÉtudesAnciennes #SOSClassicsUO #onfr
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Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Please sign this petition to save the Honours Classics program at the University of Ottawa, the same program from which I graduated in 2003. This is also the only program in Ontario that delivers Greek and Latin training to Franco-Ontarians, and its loss would be immeasurable for that community.
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This was the program from which I received my Honours in Classics and now the university is effectively shutting it down by gutting the language program. Join me in writing the university to save the program that offered me so many opportunities and shaped me into the scholar I am today.
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SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies @sfuhellenic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Keep an eye out at your local thrift shop - you never know what you will fine! SNF Centre Director Dr. Sabrina Higgins is in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social with the her amazing new project - found in a Chilliwack thrift store! Learn more! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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Someone Donated These Mysterious Artifacts to a Thrift Shop. Experts Think They Might Date to Medieval Times
A shopper who said he was an archaeologist spotted the 11 rings and two medallions and alerted a volunteer
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Looking forward to giving this talk at the University of Ottawa next week to the department where my public scholarship journey began.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In today’s #PeoplingBlog we continue our “Unknown Peoples” Series! Read on as Goran Sanev takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/26/b... /1
Two stone tablets inscribed with Greek text.
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1
An image of two small bronze discs with elephants as the decoration.
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SFU Global Humanities @sfuhumanities.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
@sfu.ca students Diego Barrios-Stewart, Citlalli Gonzalez, and Nick Parker along with alumni Sarah Grenier and Madison Poole visiting the site of Stobi in North Macedonia alongside @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social. They are currently working on the excavations at Golemo Gradiste. @sfufass.bsky.social
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We recently teamed up with Pasts Imperfect to discuss all things Peopling the Past! Read our contribution (and subscribe to this fantastic newsletter!) here 👇🏻
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The first spotting of Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences in the wild! We can’t wait for all of you to get your hands on this volume!
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It’s not often that I’m social media these days, but when I am, it’s to share that Chelsea and I’s co-edited volume has been published with Routledge. The Open Access version is available for immediate download on Routledge’s website! We can’t wait for you to read all of the incredible contributions
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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
We’re thrilled to have @mythsbaby.bsky.social join us this Friday for the SNF Seminar Series. Register at the link below to join us in person or virtually as we chat all things Greek Myth. www.eventbrite.ca/e/lets-talk-...
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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!: A Conversation with Liv Albert
Presenting popular podcast host, Liv Albert
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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Today’s Peopling Blog is another exciting Grad Student Feature! Read on as we interview Dora Gao, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations: peoplingthepast.com/2023/09/22/b... /1
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Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gao
In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on re...
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