Sabrina Higgins
@sabrinahiggins.bsky.social
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
Just a reminder that we are now accepting applications for our Post-Doc in Hellenic Studies at SFU.
Does your research engage with Hellenic Studies and Ancient Athenian Democracy? Yes? The SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU is searching for its next Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow!
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January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Just a reminder that we are now accepting applications for our Post-Doc in Hellenic Studies at SFU.
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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 🥳
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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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January 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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 🥳
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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.
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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.
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.
Does your research engage with Hellenic Studies and Ancient Athenian Democracy? Yes? The SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU is searching for its next Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow!
Learn more here! www.sfu.ca/hellenic-stu...
Learn more here! www.sfu.ca/hellenic-stu...
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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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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:
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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:
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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:
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November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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:
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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:
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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:
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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!
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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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October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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...
peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...
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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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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻
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.
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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.
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.
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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Keep an eye out at your local thrift shop - you never know what you will fine! SNF Centre Director Dr. Sabrina Higgins is in
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with the her amazing new project - found in a Chilliwack thrift store!
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with the her amazing new project - found in a Chilliwack thrift store!
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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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October 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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...
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
with the her amazing new project - found in a Chilliwack thrift store!
Learn more! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
Looking forward to giving this talk at the University of Ottawa next week to the department where my public scholarship journey began.
Next week at the Department of Classics & Religious Studies, UOttawa, Sabrina Higgins (Simon Fraser University) on "Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship in Practice". October 2, 14:30, in MHN 509 at UOttawa. All welcome! #ottawa #AncientHistory #Classics #AncientBluesky
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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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
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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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:
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September 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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:
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@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
June 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@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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We recently teamed up with Pasts Imperfect to discuss all things Peopling the Past! Read our contribution (and subscribe to this fantastic newsletter!) here 👇🏻
April 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We recently teamed up with Pasts Imperfect to discuss all things Peopling the Past! Read our contribution (and subscribe to this fantastic newsletter!) here 👇🏻
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!
I am so happy that this is the first parcel to arrive in my new university box!
@sabrinahiggins.bsky.social it looks fantastic!
@sabrinahiggins.bsky.social it looks fantastic!
March 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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!
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
Publication news! 🎉 Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences is NOW AVAILABLE for everybody to read! We are so excited to share this work with you all: www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past... 🎉
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
March 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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
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.
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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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September 26, 2023 at 3:44 PM
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.
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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
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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September 22, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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