Washingtonia
It was a great pleasure to read my friends Kostis Kourelis and David Pettegrew’s (with Nikos Poulopoulos, Albert Sarvis, Alexandra Shehigian) article “Washingtonia 1829: an American refugee colony in...
View ArticleSome Concluding Thoughts on Isthmia from Summer 2025
Our time at Isthmia this summer was remarkably productive. Not only did we manage to move through 2500 batches of context pottery from both very recent and older excavations, but we also had a chance...
View ArticleAbandoned Villages on Cyprus
On my long flight home, I read Andrea Villani’s “Vanishing Villages: Exploring Habitation and Abandonment in the Dhiarizos Valley, Cyprus, and Surrounding Areas,” in the International Journal of...
View ArticleThree Things Thursday: Final Week at Isthmia Edition
This summer I’ve been trying to limit my blogging to a few times a week (excluding my “Foto Phriday” feature. Slowly, but surely, I’ve started to feel pressure to blog more and my discipline and focus...
View ArticleTwo Weeks at Isthmia
As my time working at Isthmia hits the two week mark, our routine of ceramic analysis is giving me the bandwidth to start to think more broadly about the situation at Isthmia. For those who don’t read...
View ArticleWriting Wednesday: Projects for the Fall
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...
View ArticleTwo Thing Tuesday: Waste
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...
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What Would You Say That You Do: Isthmia Final Report
One of the most consistent assumptions about my summers is that I’m digging. I used to try to tell people that I don’t really dig (much less LIKE to dig), but I’ve more or less given up on that. This...
View ArticlePyla-Kokkinokremos
In an effort to catch up on some reading this past week, I spent some time with Joachim Bretschneider, Athanasia Kanta, Jan Driessen, Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos: Report on the 2014-2019...
View ArticleModern and Early Modern Greek Landscapes
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been distracted and honestly a bit fried. I feel like just keeping on top of my classes and shooting the wolf closet to the sled was about all I could muster. I did,...
View ArticleWhat I Did This Summer: Polis on Cyprus Edition
The early fall is always an awkward time of year because it marks the intersection of summertime work and the more regular routine of the semester’s start (as well as baseball and football season)....
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Landscapes and Nature on the Mickelson Trail
This weekend, I road the Mickelson Trail with my buddy and some-time research partner Bret Weber. There was no research agenda for this ride, but like most excursions in a new landscape, I spent a good...
View ArticleRoman Climate
As I get old, one of my great weaknesses as a professional is becoming more and more apparent. As my always modest synapses have slowed down further and my limited pool of energy has gotten shallower,...
View ArticleThree Things Thursday: Squatters, Syllabi, and the Split Seminar
This semester is going to be an adventure. Not only are we having some pretty cold weather, but COVID and teaching four different classes is keeping my on my toes. On top of this, I’m trying to develop...
View ArticleIslands of Abandonment
Over the weekend, I read Cal Flyn’s delightful Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (Viking 2021). I read it, in part, because about five people recommended it to me...
View ArticleThree Things Thursday: New Book, Teaching, and
It’s a Thursday at the end of the semester and I’m thinking about a new book that is neck deep in production, another book that is getting some good attention, some teaching situations that are amusing...
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Book By Its Cover: Deserted Villages
Last week, I quietly dropped a little sneak peek to the next book that will appear from my little press, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota: Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the...
View ArticleThree Things Thursday: Ruins, Books, and the Quarterly
Things are a bit busier than usual these days, so I thought I’d share some of the stuff rattling in my office with a little Three Things Thursday. Thing the First I’m pretty sure that I won’t write it,...
View ArticleConcluding Pyla-Koutsopetria
Over the last 5 years, my colleagues and I have been struggling to bring our work at Pyla-Koutsopetria to a close. We have largely stepped away from work there (which continues under the direction of...
View ArticleThree Quick Things on a Snowy Monday
The sound of snowblowers woke me this morning because despite everything in town being closed someone just had to remove the snow at 6 am. Since I’m up and at my laptop, here are a few quick things...
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