Sarah Porter
@portersf.bsky.social
asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
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Head to a Pavement location instead! Boston business w/ unionized baristas. Their shops on Newbury St and Boylston are both just a couple of blocks from Hynes Convention Center.
On your way to AAR/SBL? Skip the Starbucks, the baristas are on strike
I mean, skip it anyways, but
I mean, skip it anyways, but
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Head to a Pavement location instead! Boston business w/ unionized baristas. Their shops on Newbury St and Boylston are both just a couple of blocks from Hynes Convention Center.
always a pleasure to peek into @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social's archives. today i was trying to find a woman who worked as cataloguer at antioch for a bit - florence day - & sure enough, stumbled across these conversational descriptions of the first cohort of junior fellows www.doaks.org/newsletter/n...
75 Years Ago this Month: The First Junior Fellows Arrive
James N. Carder (February 2016)
www.doaks.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
always a pleasure to peek into @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social's archives. today i was trying to find a woman who worked as cataloguer at antioch for a bit - florence day - & sure enough, stumbled across these conversational descriptions of the first cohort of junior fellows www.doaks.org/newsletter/n...
today as i was soliciting answers in class i said ...
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waddup.
WHY DID I SAY THIS, DID I BLACK OUT
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waddup.
WHY DID I SAY THIS, DID I BLACK OUT
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
today as i was soliciting answers in class i said ...
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waddup.
WHY DID I SAY THIS, DID I BLACK OUT
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waddup.
WHY DID I SAY THIS, DID I BLACK OUT
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Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖
Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe: careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis... #historyjobs
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe: careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis... #historyjobs
assigned @emuehlbe.bsky.social's "perpetual adjustment" to a small group of students and wooo there are a LOT of exclamation points in their annotations this week!
October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
assigned @emuehlbe.bsky.social's "perpetual adjustment" to a small group of students and wooo there are a LOT of exclamation points in their annotations this week!
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Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
Things Unseen | University of California Press
How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowl...
luminosoa.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
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🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...
ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity
Job Posting Title: ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity ---- Hiring Department: Department of Religious Studies ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Wee...
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...
the analysis is too boring to even type out
President Trump is considering a triumphal arch at Memorial Circle in D.C. for America’s 250th anniversary.
It would represent Trump’s most audacious effort to remake the landscape of D.C.
It would represent Trump’s most audacious effort to remake the landscape of D.C.
Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary
The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
the analysis is too boring to even type out
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'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
January 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Leo XIV comes out swinging hard in his first Apostolic Letter, esp §§80-81, insisting on the centrality of social movements and structural change and not JP2’s restrictions of liberation theology to individual dimensions. Vatican 2 and Medellín are back.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________
www.vatican.va
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Leo XIV comes out swinging hard in his first Apostolic Letter, esp §§80-81, insisting on the centrality of social movements and structural change and not JP2’s restrictions of liberation theology to individual dimensions. Vatican 2 and Medellín are back.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Faith groups have filed suit against DHS for violating their 1st and 4th amendment rights, arguing that by targeting faith-based demonstrators "with violence," ICE agents are enacting a policy that “substantially burdens their exercise of religion” and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
religionnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Faith groups have filed suit against DHS for violating their 1st and 4th amendment rights, arguing that by targeting faith-based demonstrators "with violence," ICE agents are enacting a policy that “substantially burdens their exercise of religion” and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding
SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...
docs.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This is great, so glad this is happening. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...
Meet the Historians Documenting Every Object at the Smithsonian
A group of citizen historians, alarmed by Donald Trump's targeting of Smithsonian museums, are on a mission to document their displays.
news.artnet.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is great, so glad this is happening. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...
hat tip to @ismipratima.bsky.social, wtf
September 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
hat tip to @ismipratima.bsky.social, wtf
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It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun
sweet little documentary from the corinth excavations ca 1945. the last minute or so is ASCSA's pitch: that archaeology helps the local economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=LppD...
Ancient Corinth in 1945
YouTube video by eDesigner
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September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
sweet little documentary from the corinth excavations ca 1945. the last minute or so is ASCSA's pitch: that archaeology helps the local economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=LppD...
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The new issue of Religious Studies Review is live, featuring responses to Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion that include my own essay, "'She Laughs at the Future' (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance." It's available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“She Laughs at the Future” (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The new issue of Religious Studies Review is live, featuring responses to Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion that include my own essay, "'She Laughs at the Future' (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance." It's available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
beautiful symposium for a beautiful book
don't miss @postrafelite.bsky.social's cartoon about creation - a beautifully meditative way to start the morning
don't miss @postrafelite.bsky.social's cartoon about creation - a beautifully meditative way to start the morning
🐣 Our SBL Review Symposium for Mike Chin’s new monograph “Life” has just been published with Religious Studies Review 51/2. Have a look here, especially if you are interested in ancient natural history or new ways of writing old history:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
Religious Studies Review: Vol 51, No 2
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
beautiful symposium for a beautiful book
don't miss @postrafelite.bsky.social's cartoon about creation - a beautifully meditative way to start the morning
don't miss @postrafelite.bsky.social's cartoon about creation - a beautifully meditative way to start the morning
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I keep seeing the media say crime is down but people feel like it is up without mentioning the role of phone notifications and social media like Nextdoor, Ring Alerts, and Facebook Groups that not only make people more aware of any crime nearby they wouldn’t have known about in the past… (1/3)
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I keep seeing the media say crime is down but people feel like it is up without mentioning the role of phone notifications and social media like Nextdoor, Ring Alerts, and Facebook Groups that not only make people more aware of any crime nearby they wouldn’t have known about in the past… (1/3)
thanks to @ktardio.bsky.social, who tipped me off to an impressive resource compiled by @fglif.bsky.social for folks seeking to publish with classics / classics adjacent journals and presses fglif.org/2025/05/06/g...
Getting Published: Supplemental Resource Package
On May 1st, FGLIF convened a panel covering the basics of getting your manuscripts published by different presses and journals! The panelists have worked together to create a supplementary informat…
fglif.org
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
thanks to @ktardio.bsky.social, who tipped me off to an impressive resource compiled by @fglif.bsky.social for folks seeking to publish with classics / classics adjacent journals and presses fglif.org/2025/05/06/g...
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Get in loser, we're going west to diminish
July 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Get in loser, we're going west to diminish
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Hey all, I have a new piece out at the New York Times, on our history of talking to the dead, from Spiritualism to daytime TV psychics to to AI Griefbots, and why we can’t stop reaching out to the Beyond.
Please enjoy!
Please enjoy!
Why Do We Still Need to Talk to the Dead?
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hey all, I have a new piece out at the New York Times, on our history of talking to the dead, from Spiritualism to daytime TV psychics to to AI Griefbots, and why we can’t stop reaching out to the Beyond.
Please enjoy!
Please enjoy!