This was supposed to be an easy post today that I drew from some of the stuff that I’ve been writing this week, but I became fascinated by the idea of “securityscapes” (particularly as discussed in Setha Low and Mark Maguire in the introduction to their edited volume Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance,… Read More →
It feels like a good time to offer a Three Things Thursday post as it’s not the Third Thursday of the Semester. Such alliteration will not occur again until the Thirteenth Thursday and who knows what’ll happen to me by then! Thing the First Here’s a little Writing Wednesday update. I had a good day… Read More →
I’ve been thinking and talking about walls a good bit lately — including an hour long conversation with David Pettegrew about the fortification of the eastern Corinthia. Last week I posted some scrappy notes on the Hexamilion Wall vaguely related to a paper that I’ll give in November at Michigan State. David and I discussed… Read More →
I’m starting to read and think about walls more partly for a paper that I’m giving at Michigan State in the fall and partly because at some point Richard Rothaus and Scott Moore and I will have to publish some of our work at the Roman Bath at Isthmia and we need to find ways… Read More →
Lately, I’ve struggled a bit to find the enjoyment in writing. I’m not exactly sure what the deal is. Perhaps I’ve been writing too much technical stuff and not enough creative stuff. Maybe I’m just feeling a bit like I’m on a treadmill or writing too far ahead of my reading. Whatever the reason, I’m… Read More →
This fall I have a few little goals that I hope will contribute to some good new habits. Two of these goals are the topic of today’s Three Thing Thursday: Thing the First I need to start using Zotero regularly. As readers of this blog know, I surf the web constantly and in my own… Read More →
Yesterday, I started writing again after about two weeks of puttering around with other things. It was a bit like going on run after a few weeks away. It was painful and I was proud to avoid vomiting. That said, it wasn’t a good writing day. It was dutiful and not entirely unproductive. As the… Read More →
I’ve been dancing around a writing project over the last couple of weeks and putting fragments of thoughts in my new notebooks as part of my effort to developed more discipline in handwriting. Yesterday, I began to think more seriously about the relationship between scholar-led publishing and disciplinary practice in archaeology. In previous work, I’ve… Read More →
I’m taking a bit longer to re-enter my regular routine than usual after a week visiting family in Florida. Yesterday, though, I managed to spend an hour reading a couple of articles on waste. First, I read another of the little gaggle of previewed articles from a forth coming special issue of the Historical Archaeology… Read More →
I read with significant interest Rebecca Graff’s latest article on the archaeology of Chicago in Historical Archaeology: “An Archaeology of Chicago Archaeology: Urban-Heritage Dissonances from DuSable to the Mecca Flats” which I believe will be part of a larger special issue on urban archaeology. (Readers of this blog may recall that I read her Disposing… Read More →
David Pettegrew and I are working on an article that we intend to submit to the Journal of Field Archaeology for its 50th anniversary issue. You can read our abstract here. The theme of this issue is “Looking to the Next Half Century.” We thought that we might use David’s soon to be published volume,… Read More →
One of the challenges of a summer reading list is staying to true to it enough to get through at least some of it while also being flexible enough to read unexpected books that come my way. Catherine Keane’s More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus (2024) is just such a book.… Read More →
Yesterday, I mentioned that this summer, I spent a bit more time thinking about how my interest in little fussy archaeological problems inform bigger picture conversations in the field. What prompted this, in part, was a couple of conversations with folks during my time at Isthmia in Greece. First, I chatted with Lita Tzortopoulou-Gregory about… Read More →
One of the hardest things for me as an academic is taking time to reflect not just on what I do as a scholar, but how I do it. When I get busy and have deadlines this feels like a waste of time and when I don’t have pressing deadlines, this feels like an indulgence… Read More →
I’m back from traveling and my summer research leave and while I’ll take a few days to recover from jet lag, I’m looking forward to getting back into my routine and starting the slow ramp up to the fall semester. There are two (and a half) things that are “closest to the sled” right now… Read More →
