Thank you! I’ve had so much fun writing this & hope folks enjoy it on the other end

Thank you! Sorry for yet another thing for you to read 😅 and I didn’t even realize JAJ is out in print until now!

A consignment shop in Charlottesville!

This project was the main thing I was working on at @humanitiestufts.bsky.social, so it's really exciting that it has a future.

I also get to bring in one of my favorite historical figures: Cyrenus Osborne Ward, a Midwestern member of the First International and author of The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine.

Some of the big topics include: the effects of ancient race & displacement on slave revolts, religious strategies and tactics to enact or suppress revolts, & memorialization of slave revolt leaders in antiquity and modernity.

I’m grateful that @kilravockrose.bsky.social and the reviewers believe that this is a promising project. Especially as someone who works primarily in early Christianity, I’m glad that there’s space to contribute to our understanding of slave revolts & religious cultures in the late Roman Republic!

It's absolutely the norm in our field for scholars, often senior ones, to publicly direct their ire at people trying to de-platform the reputaion of known sexual predators, not at the sexual predators. The "but his work?!" and "Don't let his mistakes define him" is beyond predictable. 🤮

and of course @rheaclassical.bsky.social, also open access - a book review journal prioritizing underrepresented scholarly voices rheaclassicalreviews.com