Tomorrow I head off to the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. You can check out the full program here (.pdf). Our panel is at 8:20 AM on Friday morning: 5C City of Gold: Archaeological excavations at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus Theme: This session details the exhibition, City of Gold: Tomb and Temple… Read More →
Over the last couple of years, I’ve worked on a series of papers on the role of Early Christian basilicas in constructing new forms of authority in Greece. They form the rough outline of a book (or at least a dissertation) that I never had the time, focus, or energy to write. A few years… Read More →
Ten years ago this month, I submitted my dissertation, Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece, for final approval at Ohio State and became Dr. Bill Caraher. A year later, I was lucky enough to become Visiting Assistant Professor Bill Caraher and a year after that Assistant Professor Bill Caraher. And finally, last… Read More →
This past month, I spent some time reading and reviewing Eremina Lapadula’s The Chora of Metaponto 4: The Late Roman Farmhouse at San Biagio. I’ve blogged about it already, but now I have a rough draft of the review ready for your consideration. I’ve been thinking a good bit about how I write book reviews lately.… Read More →
I know I’m a few weeks late on this, but I heard that Chinua Achebe died on March 21st. His greatest novel, Things Fall Apart, inspired my dissertation research. As most readers of this blog know, I wrote my dissertation (defended 10 years ago!) on Early Christian basilicas in Central and Southern Greece. In Achebe’s… Read More →
