Cole M Smith

Made it to the ASCSA! Ready for some fun months ahead!

Fun times being had at the ANS summer seminar!

More news, I have been accepted to participate in the American Numismatic Society’s Eric P Newman Graduate Seminar in NYC (w stipend)!
Image: Roman Republican consular coin forgery from UT Austin’s Swenson Collection (For y’all coin folk, a combination of RRC 215/1 and 236/1)

Happy to say I will be returning to Greece to take more sun-blinded selfies at archaeological sites. I have been accepted to the American School of Classical Studies’ regular member program for 2025-26 and been awarded the Virginia Grace Fellowship! 🎉

Apparently I’m ringing in the new year by watching someone run up and down the street in their underwear setting off fireworks while yelling, “Al Gore was right after all!” Happy New Year?!

Temple of Castor and Pollux, Agrigentum, Sicily

Reading Rostovtzeff’s SEHHW is quite the experience. If you want to make it a drinking game, every time he writes proletariat take a shot of vodka, and bourgeoisie a shot of cognac.

New side slide project

Trying to enjoy the intermediate period in TX that is post-excavation season but before the start of the Fall term, during which is it is almost always too hot to go outside. Time for more summer reading I suppose…

Successful study season at Histria is complete. Miss my transport amphora fragments already.

Had a lovely time this week having two seminars and a special lecture, and a variety of other events, with our department guest from UC Berkeley, Mario Telò, discussing Butler’s Antigone and the art of Ana Mendieta, Edward Said, Seneca, and more.

Didn’t TA last term and didn’t get Covid. First week of TAing this term and immediately got Covid…

The wonderful department at Acadia University that is responsible for my undergrad and nourishing my interest in Classics is hiring for TT ancient Mediterranean specialist! (in a beautiful area of Nova Scotia that typically smells great except when the tide is out). Closes Feb 9

Happy to hear that the poster came 1st runner-up!

Not able to attend SCS/AIA this year, but do have a poster collaboration with Jennifer S. Tafe and Eleni Hasaki titled “Nikosthenes’ Networks of Production and Trade” that will be present by Jen. There are also several papers by friends that work on Histria stuff with me!

Wooh! Got my transport amphora samples today, time for petrography and analysis!

No better(?) way to start the weekend than a PhD exam in ancient history

Having (transport) amphora Fridays has lined up my Fall semester to be so awesome!

Can’t believe I had to tell an undergrad not to try to pet a raccoon.

Come to UT (where the grad students occasionally stress bake for you)

Amazing to see how many die-hard Iliad ‘enthusiasts’ there are that know the exact way it’s meant to be translated from the Greek, as I could only dream of such mastery as a Classicist myself.