Debby Sneed

📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change.
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RACING THE CLASSICS

the call for a new cohort of Racing the Classics fellows is out! people should really be applying for this. apps due April 10th

Is this how the doloneia started

A Dwarf Maiden on the Athenian Acropolis: Disability and Dedication in the Archaic Polis The study of ancient Greek sculpture is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude notions of bodily difference and disability. I...

Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students!

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These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Holy cow

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

I love the intimacy that comes after you discover you both dislike the same person

Let's hear it for librarians, they're really out here enabling so much of our work as academics

This is a great idea. We aren't allowed to have any single assignment worth more than 30% of the final grade, but I think there's a way to incorporate some version of this even here. Thanks for sharing!

First hearing for Illinois Right to Mask . SB3340 Kiki’s law. Needs witness slips before Feb 26. Anyone in the U.S. can help!

Protect our right to mask in healthcare situations!

Kiki’s Law, the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act, will be heard in the Illinois Senate Thurs.

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How researchers learned the rules of an ancient Roman board game A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

Some analog #archaeogaming on NPR yesterday: finding the rules of an ancient Roman board game with @waltros.bsky.social and others: www.npr.org/2026/02/23/n...
#classics

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

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And people wonder if the ancient world can speak to modern issues

Honestly a forced day of being completely off the grid is my dream. This isn't that, but it's getting there

The Anti-Empathy Movement & the End of the Iliad I’ve been teaching the Iliad to undergraduates for several decades. Every semester, I argue that the core emotional scene in the whole poem…

New drop from Maximus Planudes on the Anti-Empathy Movement and the End of the Iliad.

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Ancient Studies Week Lecture with Dr. Debby Sneed, CSU Long Beach YouTube video by UMBCtube

If you can't make it but are interested, here's a recording of the talk that I gave at UMBC in October 2025: www.youtube.com/live/OPFZm_I...

On Thursday 19th March from 10:30am - 12pm, I'll be hosting a free online "Rethinking cataloguing" session for the Collections Trust, exploring what co-production means and what it could potentially bring to collections research, management and production.

collectionstrust.org.uk/events/rethi...

Feb 19: Disability and Dedication on the Archaic Acropolis The study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude aspects of bodily difference and disability.

On Thurs, Feb. 19, I'll be speaking at UC Davis about my recent co-authored project, a late 6th century BCE statue of a dwarf woman that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. A recording of the talk from the Fall is available on YouTube, if you're interested!

classics.ucdavis.edu/events/disab...

just a quick shoutout to this excellent resource, which I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching this term. so far we've read its excerpts of Kebra Nagast, Petrarch, Leo Africanus, Bartolomé de las Casas, The Florentine Codex, Winckelmann, and Phillis Wheatley Peters

Newsom will betray your interests if it's in his own

If you're making a list, I also won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's a nominee for President

Res Diff 7 2026 The 2026 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 13th. Register for the conference here. Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics.&nbsp…

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff7 (March 13, 2026), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, co-organized with Elke Nash. Keynote: Samuel Agbamu (@samagbamu.bsky.social). Registration is now open: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-7-2...

ResDiff, now in its 7th (!) year is always such a great gathering and I've often thought the stated focus on inequity in Classics, while certainly an impt link between presentations, somewhat understates the range of types of interventions you'll hear. Honored to be part of yet another great lineup

Just sent it!

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