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Hannah Čulík-Baird
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♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.

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November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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so what conclusions should we come to when BMCR publishes a review of a scholar removed from his post for sexual harassment, followed by this review just days later?
What on earth does “implicated” mean here? If you love the Iliad, you are implicated in sexual harassment? If you do sexually harass someone, you typically defend yourself because you love the Iliad? Don’t love your work as it may lead you to sexually harass someone?! “Routinely?!”
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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QED: one of my students found the famous Terence quote in the Epstein files!
From Deepak Chopra to Jeffrey Epstein: “Roman poet whose name I forget - ‘nothing human is foreign to me’”
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social
photograph of book “The White Pedestal” by Curtis Dozier
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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coming up on 4 months
photograph of a weight rack outside in the California sun
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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here are some that I include on syllabuses
Latin and Greek Resources Logeion, Latin and Greek dictionaries: https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/index Loeb Classical Texts–look up (almost any) Latin or Greek passage with facing translation (VPN needed if off-campus): https://www.loebclassics.com/ Oxford Classical Dictionary–look up information about authors and themes (VPN needed if off-campus): https://oxfordre.com/classics Digital maps of ancient places built by community-driven data: https://pleiades.stoa.org/ Greek and Roman texts linked to ancient maps: https://topostext.org/ PHI Latin Corpus: access Latin texts, word searches - https://latin.packhum.org/search Mutual Aid and Affinity Groups in Classics Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC): support, connection, mentorship for Asian and Asian American scholars of Classics and the ancient Mediterranean: https://www.aaaclassicalcaucus.org/ Crip Antiquity: international advocacy organization for disabled and neurodivergent students, teachers, scholars, staff, artists, and writers in ancient studies: https://cripantiquity.com/ Eos Africana Receptions: a scholarly society dedicated to Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome: https://www.eosafricana.org/ Mountaintop Coalition: Classicists who identify as members of ethnic groups traditionally underrepresented in the field: https://www.mountaintopcoalition.org/ Multiculturalism, Race & Ethnicity in Classics Consortium (MRECC): Anti-racism in Classics: https://multiculturalclassics.wordpress.com/ Res Difficiles: annual conference and open access journal dedicated to addressing “difficult” topics in Classics and related fields: https://resdifficiles.com/ Sportula US: provide microgrants in petty cash ranging from $5 to $300, no questions asked, to Classics/Classics-adjacent undergrads and grads in the US who need it: https://thesportula.wordpress.com/ Trans in Classics: community for those who broadly identify as trans on discord and a facebook group for trans folx and allies: https://www.wccclassics.org/transinclassics Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC): mentorship, events, feminist and gender-informed perspectives: https://www.wccclassics.org/
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We’ve so been looking forward to making this official. Mathias (@mhanses.bsky.social) and I have just signed a contract for our book, Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, with Yale University Press (@yalepress.bsky.social)!
selfie of Mathias Hanses (left) and Hannah Čulík-Baird (right) in front of the UCLA Powell Library photograph of Hannah Čulík-Baird at the podium speaking (left), and Mathias Hanses seated at the table (right); bg: slide with map of the Mediterranean - labels mark regions referenced by the ancient orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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thrilling book mail today!! @maiakotro.bsky.social
photograph of Maia Kotrosits’ “After Transformation”
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This hesitation was evident in the published responses to a mostly-forgotten pre-pandemic mini-scandal: a leaked draft of an Executive Order called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” which as of now Trump still has not signed. This Executive Order would have made it a requirement that future Federal buildings be built using the neoclassical styles derived from the architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome. The key markers of this style of architecture include white columns on the front of buildings, sometimes approached by a number of steps; and topped by a triangular pediment — all white, as well, of course. Most of the iconic government buildings in this country have these features — and while they fell out of favor starting in the 1960s, this is what the reference to “again” is about in the title of the Executive Order.
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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today’s the first day of the new quarter and I still have my rituals
photograph of tulips in a fish-shaped vase on a desk; bg: bookshelves
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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In the studio today recording a lecture on Ovid’s Metamorphoses for UCLA’s Global Antiquity curriculum. First time reading from a teleprompter!
photograph of a white woman with tattoos and blonde/brown hair in a recording studio in front of a green screen photograph of a white woman with tattoos and blonde/brown hair in a recording studio in front of a green screen
September 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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yesterday @eosafricana.bsky.social sent out their notice for Eos WRITES, which is a really great opportunity to work on writing, give feedback, and build community. here’s their link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are writing to invite you to the first iteration of Eos WRITES. WRITES is a workshopping series designed to help members support each other's writing. After creating groups of up to 5 society members, we will make introductions, then provide some helpful guidelines for scheduling 2 hour long workshopping sessions and creating a supportive environment. For the academic year, all 5 members of each group will act as both readers and writers, sharing their work and soliciting feedback. Please send us your expression of interest by submitting this form by Monday, September 8, 2025. With all best wishes for the new academic year, The Eos Executive Committee
August 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Al Pacino: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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this year’s most anticipated book is here! @platanoclassics.bsky.social
Photograph of white hand with red nails holding Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s “classicism and other phobias”
June 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Praxilla be praised—we’ve got the first cucumber of the season
photograph of a cucumber held in a hand, bg: container garden
June 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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banana slug territory
photograph of a banana slug on a cutting board of an outdoor kitchen; sunlight through trees in the bg
June 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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photograph of the purple blossoms of a jacaranda tree, with solar flare photograph of the purple blossoms of a jacaranda tree
June 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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starting the day with the flowers
photograph of two white nasturtium blossoms
June 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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at home as well
photograph of variegated nasturtium leaves (white and green), with orange and white flowers, behind a string line for training cucumbers
June 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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yes I need to give my plants a photoshoot every day
blooming nasturtium with four red blossoms on a sunny shelf
June 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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photograph of a small fenced patio: hammock next to blossoming container garden
June 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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it’s been suggested I should make this my official faculty photo
selfie of white woman, cat-eye liquid eyeliner, blonde bangs, amidst pea blossoms
May 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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also
delicate pink pea blossom in foreground; in bg blurry yellow nasturtium and climbing cucumber vines
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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well well well
photograph of a red nasturtium flower in a sunbeam, amidst nasturtium leaves and spider plants on a sunny shelf
May 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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one of my last lectures of the year for my big GE class is on Roman law... do people know that one of the forbidden words ("equity") has its intellectual roots in conservative Roman legal traditions... ?
slide from a Roman culture and society lecture on law with excerpt from The Digest (50.17.90): "In all matters certainly, but especially in legal matters, equity (aequitas) must be observed." With note: aequitas: the Latin noun aequitas literally means "uniformity," "balance," and so comes to mean "justice," "equity," "fairness"
May 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM