Megan Nutzman
@megannutzman.bsky.social
Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly in ODU History dept; PhD in Classics from UChicago; MTS + ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; author of Contested Cures (Edinburgh University Press) bit.ly/3sMTELi
Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher!
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October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher!
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I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation."
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation."
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
It's publication day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation"!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's publication day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation"!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...
I won free tickets to an Ohio State football game at faculty orientation today. I should probably buy something red!
August 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I won free tickets to an Ohio State football game at faculty orientation today. I should probably buy something red!
Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.
My former department lost 3 people in the last year alone: 2 tenured (including me) and 1 TT. There will be no TT or FT lecturer searches this year and no promise of any in future years. This is in addition to the 4 lines lost over the previous decade. I feel guilty about adding to these numbers.
My former dept lost 3 TT people (including me) over the past 3 years. Not one line will be renewed. Dean won’t allow a FT lecturer either. Provost’s solution (for the university) is to increase the teaching load by a class per semester.
July 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My former department lost 3 people in the last year alone: 2 tenured (including me) and 1 TT. There will be no TT or FT lecturer searches this year and no promise of any in future years. This is in addition to the 4 lines lost over the previous decade. I feel guilty about adding to these numbers.
I've never subscribed to the listserv, since it seems like I only ever hear about it when it becomes really problematic. For those of you who subscribe, do the benefits outweigh the drama?
Seconded — it’s embarrassing to get classics listserv emails like this from a tenured professor that claim classics isn’t (or shouldn’t be) political, cut the Levant & biblical studies off from classics, and ignore the use of Aramaic and Greek in Hellenistic & Roman Palestine
July 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I've never subscribed to the listserv, since it seems like I only ever hear about it when it becomes really problematic. For those of you who subscribe, do the benefits outweigh the drama?
Is anyone having a hard time logging into the online LCL today via institutional access? I've tried it on a number of browsers, but each time the log-in seems to go through, only to have the content that I need still show as unavailable without logging in. I just need to double check a citation!
June 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Is anyone having a hard time logging into the online LCL today via institutional access? I've tried it on a number of browsers, but each time the log-in seems to go through, only to have the content that I need still show as unavailable without logging in. I just need to double check a citation!
Applications are due in two weeks for a visiting scholar at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. Open only to scholars who are not in tenured or tenure-track positions. I look forward to being involved in the CSR in my new position at OSU and to welcoming this visiting scholar!
CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications
Visiting Scholar – Call for ApplicationsThe Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Applications are due in two weeks for a visiting scholar at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. Open only to scholars who are not in tenured or tenure-track positions. I look forward to being involved in the CSR in my new position at OSU and to welcoming this visiting scholar!
Lord, have mercy.
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Lord, have mercy.
This is a fantastic explanation of and reflection on using teaching with games in the undergraduate classroom.
Too late for the article, but this sem I asked students to re-play this game as part of their final and reflect on how it felt to meet these characters at the end of the semester with much more context. I had great feedback, in addn to the beginning-of-semester processing I describe in the article.
Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), “Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.” tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...
June 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is a fantastic explanation of and reflection on using teaching with games in the undergraduate classroom.
I don't follow Catholic politics, but this would not have been the outcome that I expected. Chicago is going to be celebrating today.
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I don't follow Catholic politics, but this would not have been the outcome that I expected. Chicago is going to be celebrating today.
Today is the day that we have Latin in the news!
May 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today is the day that we have Latin in the news!
As a classicist, I am eagerly anticipating the moment when Latin will be in the news!
Also, I like ceremony and ritual, so even though I'm not Catholic, I find the process interesting.
Also, I like ceremony and ritual, so even though I'm not Catholic, I find the process interesting.
May 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As a classicist, I am eagerly anticipating the moment when Latin will be in the news!
Also, I like ceremony and ritual, so even though I'm not Catholic, I find the process interesting.
Also, I like ceremony and ritual, so even though I'm not Catholic, I find the process interesting.
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For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars:
Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Visiting Scholar Program | Center for the Study of Religion
The Center for the Study of Religion hosts a short-term visiting scholar program one or two times per academic year. Building on a successful pilot program held in March 2023, this initiative aims to ...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars:
Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.
Deadline: July 1, 2025
From ODU to OSU: I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a position in the Classics Department at Ohio State!
April 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
From ODU to OSU: I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a position in the Classics Department at Ohio State!
It looks like I'll be teaching myth next year -- something that I've never taught before. What are some of fun ways to approach teaching myth? I'm interested in everything from course structure to interesting (or even non-traditional) assignments. If you have a syllabus to share, I'd love to see it!
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It looks like I'll be teaching myth next year -- something that I've never taught before. What are some of fun ways to approach teaching myth? I'm interested in everything from course structure to interesting (or even non-traditional) assignments. If you have a syllabus to share, I'd love to see it!
This is happening today!
Save the date for our next FOA webinar, "Amulets and their Critics: Jews, Christians, and Samaritans in Late Antique Palestine," presented by Dr. Megan Nutzman on Wednesday, March 19th at 7:00 PM ET. Register for free here: buff.ly/41vZ1O0
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FOA Webinar: Megan Nutzman - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Friends of ASOR Webinar - Dr. Megan Nutzman presents: "Amulets and their Critics: Jews, Christians, and Samaritans in Late Antique Palestine" on March 19, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is happening today!
In my tradition, today is the Sunday of the Last Judgement. I always find the Gospel passage for today very meaningful, but it is especially timely this year. Here is how it ends (from Matthew 25): ...
(images from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum)
(images from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum)
February 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In my tradition, today is the Sunday of the Last Judgement. I always find the Gospel passage for today very meaningful, but it is especially timely this year. Here is how it ends (from Matthew 25): ...
(images from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum)
(images from the Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum)
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book:
Imagine, if you will, a woman living in Caesarea in the early fourth century CE.
Imagine, if you will, a woman living in Caesarea in the early fourth century CE.
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book:
"Our story begins on the east coast of Italy on a sunny day sometime around the year 430 CE, when artisans entered a small chapel and turned the sky blue." #TheBrightAges @profgabriele.com
"Our story begins on the east coast of Italy on a sunny day sometime around the year 430 CE, when artisans entered a small chapel and turned the sky blue." #TheBrightAges @profgabriele.com
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book,
"As the soul comes to a child at the moment of hatching, so the soul flows into each day when the beak of the sun first taps at the horizon and cracks the egg of night."
Everybody's Perfect, coming from Tor June 2026
"As the soul comes to a child at the moment of hatching, so the soul flows into each day when the beak of the sun first taps at the horizon and cracks the egg of night."
Everybody's Perfect, coming from Tor June 2026
February 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book:
Imagine, if you will, a woman living in Caesarea in the early fourth century CE.
Imagine, if you will, a woman living in Caesarea in the early fourth century CE.
Fellow classicists, please help me out so I don't sound stupid! How are we pronouncing the abbreviations ThesCRA (Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum) and LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae)? Is it thes-crah and L-I-M-C?
January 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Fellow classicists, please help me out so I don't sound stupid! How are we pronouncing the abbreviations ThesCRA (Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum) and LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae)? Is it thes-crah and L-I-M-C?
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. State Department/foreign service
2. Political Science
3. History (BA) + Theology (MTS) + Classics (PhD)
4. Ancient history professor
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. State Department/foreign service
2. Political Science
3. History (BA) + Theology (MTS) + Classics (PhD)
4. Ancient history professor
January 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. State Department/foreign service
2. Political Science
3. History (BA) + Theology (MTS) + Classics (PhD)
4. Ancient history professor
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. State Department/foreign service
2. Political Science
3. History (BA) + Theology (MTS) + Classics (PhD)
4. Ancient history professor
An attempt at work-life balance, in the form of a krokbragd rug. I'm making it to coordinate with the Hudson Bay blanket (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%...) that we use as a bed covering.
January 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
An attempt at work-life balance, in the form of a krokbragd rug. I'm making it to coordinate with the Hudson Bay blanket (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%...) that we use as a bed covering.
There was some discussion of this exact journal in a Facebook group last month, with the same general consensus.
Scholars of religion might be interested in knowing that Finland's publication forum has downgraded the journal "Religions" from level 1 to 0 (on a scale from 0 to 3). This means that scholars are discouraged to publish in the journal. I basically agree with the julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
Changes to the classification
julkaisufoorumi.fi
January 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There was some discussion of this exact journal in a Facebook group last month, with the same general consensus.
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Thank you for the outpouring of well-wishes. As of today, Getty staff, the art collections, and buildings remain safe from the Palisades Fire.
The threat is still happening, and our hearts go out to everybody in Los Angeles affected by this awful tragedy.
The threat is still happening, and our hearts go out to everybody in Los Angeles affected by this awful tragedy.
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thank you for the outpouring of well-wishes. As of today, Getty staff, the art collections, and buildings remain safe from the Palisades Fire.
The threat is still happening, and our hearts go out to everybody in Los Angeles affected by this awful tragedy.
The threat is still happening, and our hearts go out to everybody in Los Angeles affected by this awful tragedy.