Catharine Judson
@cjudson.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, living the contingent faculty life. Early Iron Age Crete and disciplinary history! She/her.
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Kαλές γιορτές! Joyeuses fêtes! Happy holidays!
December 30, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Kαλές γιορτές! Joyeuses fêtes! Happy holidays!
A freshman seminar on Joan of Arc and the art of storymaking. It was a fun class and was, in retrospect, fairly foundational to me as an academic writer but now it's the experience that I try to channel the most whenever I teach about the politics of producing narratives about antiquity
December 19, 2024 at 3:06 AM
A freshman seminar on Joan of Arc and the art of storymaking. It was a fun class and was, in retrospect, fairly foundational to me as an academic writer but now it's the experience that I try to channel the most whenever I teach about the politics of producing narratives about antiquity
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If you're in Athens on December 16th, please join us for the last ATLAS Seminar of 2024!
December 12, 2024 at 10:51 AM
If you're in Athens on December 16th, please join us for the last ATLAS Seminar of 2024!
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Finally we can clear Ea-nāṣir’s name thanks to this incredible thread by @aandeloucas.bsky.social
In sum, Ea-nāṣir was a major deal. He brought tons of copper into Ur for scores of networks. Likely, a number of his investors were not metalsmiths and the finished quality of metal mattered greatly to them. Was he a grifter? No. Was he a business man? Surely.
November 23, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Finally we can clear Ea-nāṣir’s name thanks to this incredible thread by @aandeloucas.bsky.social
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It's about that time of year again....
November 20, 2023 at 6:28 PM
It's about that time of year again....
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The Black Trowel Microgrants are back! Funded through a collective, these are meant to "erode ... barriers to make them more permeable for the next generation of archaeologists."
A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...
A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...
Re-Opening The BTC Microgrants
We are excited to announce a refreshed workflow for the BTC Microgrants. After clearing our backlog, we have developed a new system to ensure the program runs smoothly and effectively. 1. Monthly Appl...
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July 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM
The Black Trowel Microgrants are back! Funded through a collective, these are meant to "erode ... barriers to make them more permeable for the next generation of archaeologists."
A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...
A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...
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ho HO what’s this? sorry boys i’m gonna be a minute. there’s a Plaque over here
when you’re walking around an area that has some history and they replace the floor or the sidewalk with a big glass pane so you can see what used to be under there??? baby that’s ALWAYS good
May 25, 2024 at 1:46 PM
ho HO what’s this? sorry boys i’m gonna be a minute. there’s a Plaque over here
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Some examples of academic gatekeeping:
1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count”
2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding
3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people
4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies
5) defaulting to blind peer review
1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count”
2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding
3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people
4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies
5) defaulting to blind peer review
May 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Some examples of academic gatekeeping:
1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count”
2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding
3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people
4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies
5) defaulting to blind peer review
1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count”
2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding
3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people
4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies
5) defaulting to blind peer review
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when you design your syllabi, remember that the point of education is to get students to engage with something so weird that they never stop thinking about it for the rest of their lives
May 1, 2024 at 4:26 PM
when you design your syllabi, remember that the point of education is to get students to engage with something so weird that they never stop thinking about it for the rest of their lives
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I am deliberately taking the below out of context (the context is fascinating, but not what I want to talk about.)
This sentiment: 'that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it' (derogatory) is why I wrote A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and not the book-of-my-postdoc.
This sentiment: 'that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it' (derogatory) is why I wrote A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and not the book-of-my-postdoc.
Also the anxiety, expressed over and over by rights holders, that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it. “But what if the film history researchers sit and watch the movie they’re working on for pleasure?!” - an actual question floated yesterday
April 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I am deliberately taking the below out of context (the context is fascinating, but not what I want to talk about.)
This sentiment: 'that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it' (derogatory) is why I wrote A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and not the book-of-my-postdoc.
This sentiment: 'that people studying a thing may also simultaneously enjoy or appreciate it' (derogatory) is why I wrote A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE and not the book-of-my-postdoc.
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Im ALL CAPS excited to tell everyone on here to go and read my super smart colleague’s new book. It’s an innovative look at how trauma theory can reveal new stories Greek tragedy. It’s certain to be a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in ancient drama or anyone interested in trauma theory.
February 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Im ALL CAPS excited to tell everyone on here to go and read my super smart colleague’s new book. It’s an innovative look at how trauma theory can reveal new stories Greek tragedy. It’s certain to be a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in ancient drama or anyone interested in trauma theory.
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Here are two things I want people with permanent jobs to know about being a precarious academic:
1. I have never had pay rise.
2. I lose money to work at present.
Neither of these are uncommon.
1. I have never had pay rise.
2. I lose money to work at present.
Neither of these are uncommon.
February 7, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Here are two things I want people with permanent jobs to know about being a precarious academic:
1. I have never had pay rise.
2. I lose money to work at present.
Neither of these are uncommon.
1. I have never had pay rise.
2. I lose money to work at present.
Neither of these are uncommon.
Happy to announce that my early pandemic passion project of trying to figure out why the Dorian invasion still keeps cropping up in archaeological publications is, at long last, finally out in the world! (though, unfortunately, not OA at this time) archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: Cretan archaeology and the Dorian invasion
| Journal of Gr...
archaeopresspublishing.com
January 3, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Happy to announce that my early pandemic passion project of trying to figure out why the Dorian invasion still keeps cropping up in archaeological publications is, at long last, finally out in the world! (though, unfortunately, not OA at this time) archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...
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This is the only thing I "wrote" in 2023, because my job isn't about single-author writing anymore. But I wrote it and then presented it and then published it for a field that also isn't my job anymore. Everyone agreed with it. Nothing changed. contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
contingentmagazine.org
December 30, 2023 at 11:52 PM
This is the only thing I "wrote" in 2023, because my job isn't about single-author writing anymore. But I wrote it and then presented it and then published it for a field that also isn't my job anymore. Everyone agreed with it. Nothing changed. contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...
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The Italian team working at Phaistos found some Bronze armor (8th-7th c. BCE) in a non-funerary context: www.unive.it/pag/14024/?t...
Articolo:Il guerriero di Creta: riemergono elmo e scudo dallo scavo di Festos
I ricercatori cafoscarini, dell’équipe della professoressa Ilaria Caloi, hanno riportato alla luce nello scavo archeologico di Festòs, nell’isola greca di Creta, l’armatura di un guerrier...
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November 6, 2023 at 5:08 PM
The Italian team working at Phaistos found some Bronze armor (8th-7th c. BCE) in a non-funerary context: www.unive.it/pag/14024/?t...
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I wrote a column about grilled cheese sandwiches, which, to me, are small and perfect things
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
Notable Sandwiches #75: Grilled Cheese
On the joy of a small and perfect thing
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November 3, 2023 at 4:14 PM
I wrote a column about grilled cheese sandwiches, which, to me, are small and perfect things
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...