Tori Lee
@toriflee.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Classics | Assistant Editor at SCS Blog (prev. Eidolon) | AAACC Co-chair | CripAntiquity Secretary | Mets & Blue Devils | she/her
High school Latin teacher friends, we'd love to have some of your students at this!
The AAACC is excited to host its first ever virtual Book Club for high school students on Sunday, February 22nd at 10am PST/1pm EST. This is a great opportunity to meet and engage with other passionate Latin/Greek students across the country.
Registration details can be found at our website!
Registration details can be found at our website!
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
High school Latin teacher friends, we'd love to have some of your students at this!
Agnes Scott is trying to close its #Classics program, and there will be a faculty vote this Friday to determine its future. The students and faculty would appreciate any additional signatures that the classics community can provide!
c.org/gKyQ45QQnJ
c.org/gKyQ45QQnJ
Have you seen this petition yet?
Save Liberal Arts at Agnes Scott
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February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Agnes Scott is trying to close its #Classics program, and there will be a faculty vote this Friday to determine its future. The students and faculty would appreciate any additional signatures that the classics community can provide!
c.org/gKyQ45QQnJ
c.org/gKyQ45QQnJ
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My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The White Pedestal
How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics It is difficult ...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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If you start watching Game 5 of the 2024 World Series at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
If you start watching Game 5 of the 2024 World Series at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.
It's gift guide time!!!
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's gift guide time!!!
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📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
MERCH IS HERE
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
MERCH IS HERE
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Check it out! A blurb about a Classics/Asia symposium I hosted earlier this month. @bauerle.bsky.social @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @toriflee.bsky.social @dominicmachado.bsky.social @aaacc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Check it out! A blurb about a Classics/Asia symposium I hosted earlier this month. @bauerle.bsky.social @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @toriflee.bsky.social @dominicmachado.bsky.social @aaacc.bsky.social
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A lot of ancient sources blame the fall of Rome on things like sexual deviance and erosion of traditional morals. Those same sources were written by ideologues trying to scare people for political gain. Sound familiar? My latest for Pharos: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A lot of ancient sources blame the fall of Rome on things like sexual deviance and erosion of traditional morals. Those same sources were written by ideologues trying to scare people for political gain. Sound familiar? My latest for Pharos: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
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Banning laptops from your classes is an accessibility issue and *forces* students with accommodations to out themselves to their peers.
If you do this, you are not an advocate for disability rights.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
If you do this, you are not an advocate for disability rights.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Banning laptops from your classes is an accessibility issue and *forces* students with accommodations to out themselves to their peers.
If you do this, you are not an advocate for disability rights.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
If you do this, you are not an advocate for disability rights.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Today on the blog, Rachel Philbrick and Zachary Quint of the SCS Data Committee share some of the results of the Census, focusing on a few salient questions and linking to further data.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Today on the blog, Rachel Philbrick and Zachary Quint of the SCS Data Committee share some of the results of the Census, focusing on a few salient questions and linking to further data.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
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Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages
[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.] I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North …
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October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
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On October 18, from 2–3:30 pm EST / 11 am–12:30 pm PST, join us for a discussion with Thu Truong on her article “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation,” which was awarded the prestigious John J. Winkler Prize in 2025!
Registration link available in bio.
Registration link available in bio.
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
On October 18, from 2–3:30 pm EST / 11 am–12:30 pm PST, join us for a discussion with Thu Truong on her article “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation,” which was awarded the prestigious John J. Winkler Prize in 2025!
Registration link available in bio.
Registration link available in bio.
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I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
Funded MAs and More
Additions and Corrections Welcome esp. for Fall 2025 applications! How to use this list. The organizational principles is application closing date. I have grouped by month–the later in the cycle th…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
I put this off until the very last minute, but I now have a generative AI statement for LAT 201. I'm sharing bc I have really appreciated seeing colleagues' examples (s/o @metalclassicist.bsky.social @thedancinggrad.bsky.social) & would like to contribute, but also bc I would love any feedback!
August 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I put this off until the very last minute, but I now have a generative AI statement for LAT 201. I'm sharing bc I have really appreciated seeing colleagues' examples (s/o @metalclassicist.bsky.social @thedancinggrad.bsky.social) & would like to contribute, but also bc I would love any feedback!
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Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1
August 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1
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Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
August 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
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A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
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One of the big lessons I try to leave audiences with is, on average, the humanities subsidize STEM fields. This is true across the country. Of course, it's an average, so there are exceptions. But the typical college uses humanities money to prop up STEM.
August 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the big lessons I try to leave audiences with is, on average, the humanities subsidize STEM fields. This is true across the country. Of course, it's an average, so there are exceptions. But the typical college uses humanities money to prop up STEM.