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Greg Woolf
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Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.

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Gregory Duncan Woolf, is a British ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021, he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford, and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and Professor of Classics at the University of London. From January 2025 he assumed the role of Director at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. .. more

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 9d
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity
Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 9d
New blog on how ISAW's Pleiades project collaborated in the creation of Itiner-e, a new digital atlas of the roads of the Roman Empire
isaw.nyu.edu/news/pleiade...
Connecting the Ancient World: Pleiades and Itiner-e
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · Nov 25
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Nov 19
Yes journals, and universities in many countries. There is a list at that link at bottom

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Nov 19
Yes it is the Press, part of a broader program building on the transformative agreements through which universities and similar pay for both access to published work and for their members to publish without APCs. CUP covers those not included in TAs.

www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Nov 12
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

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Cambridge University Press
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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · Oct 21
If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!
Oct 23,2025 9:30 am PDT Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean Dr. Eric Harvey | Stanford University "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/arf-channel Image Credit: Left: Figurine of musician (Trustees of the British Museu) Right: POW being blinded after defeat in battle (Joan Aruz 2003) ARCHAEOLOGICAL

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Oct 20
That’s seven.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Oct 18
Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact.
www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...
Dartmouth rejects Trump’s compact, saying it won’t compromise its academic freedom
Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal fu...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 18
The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.
University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Oct 16
Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact!

That makes 4 - stronger together.

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Penn, U. of Southern California Reject Trump Compact
The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.
www.insidehighered.com

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Oct 16
Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact
In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · Oct 12
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Oct 11
Great line up. Wish I could be there!

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Oct 8
Congratulations!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Oct 3
Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands
Newsom said California universities that sign what he called the “RADICAL AGREEMENT” will lose state funds, including those for scholarships.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 26
Hi Debby, great to see you over here!
debscavator.bsky.social Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · Sep 25
Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · Sep 25
Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Sep 13
Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...
Conference programme
Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 30
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 30
f you want something a bit more niche there's a famous burial monument at Igel, now on the borders of three EU countries. Its reliefs are a key source for the textile industry that flourished there in Roman times. www.eifel.info/en/pois/igel...
Column of Igel near Trier (UNESCO World Heritage Site) | Holidays in the Eifel
www.eifel.info

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 30
So much to see! Love the Landesmuseum although I haven't been for years. Constantine's basilica (if a bit rebuilt), the amphitheatre, bridge, two sets of amazing baths...and of course the Porta Nigra as on your pic!

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 29
Also

www.amazon.com/Gods-Temples...
Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul (Amsterdam Archeological Studies , Part 2)
Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul (Amsterdam Archeological Studies , Part 2) [Derks, Ton] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul (Amsterdam Archeological Studies , Part 2)
www.amazon.com

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 29
I recommend www.amazon.com/RELIGION-EN-...
LA RELIGION EN GAULE ROMAINE: Piété et politique (Ier-IVe siècle apr. J.-C.)
LA RELIGION EN GAULE ROMAINE: Piété et politique (Ier-IVe siècle apr. J.-C.) [Van Andringa, William] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. LA RELIGION EN GAULE ROMAINE: Piété et politique (Ier-IVe siècle apr. J.-C.)
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 16
There’s still the centennial of our World Cup win coming up in 2066

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Aug 15
In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard.

#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
A small model of a boat with oars, all made out of gold. It is set against a dark green background

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 15
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Aug 13
here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 31
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence as part of a new phase of the SHAPE the Future programme, which will seek to examine the progress made against the long-term societal impacts identif...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Jul 31
As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.
AAAWACStatement.pdf
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