Then and Now
As The Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference begins to wind down, my head is swirling. People are working on amazing things and it is hard not to keep thinking of all the different ways to learn from them in order to better enhance my own project. … [Continue reading] about The Big Ancient Mediterranean: Middle Thoughts
I had the good fortune of participating today in a conference called The Big Ancient Mediterranean at the University of Iowa. The purpose of the conference is to discuss ways in which digital projects (including my own Inscriptions of … [Continue reading] about The Big Ancient Mediterranean: A Preliminary Thought
I'm delighted to be taking part in a conference on the "Big Ancient Mediterranean" at the University of Iowa next week. The goal of the conference is to help various digital projects dealing with the ancient Mediterranean - such as my own … [Continue reading] about BAM: The Big Ancient Mediterranean
Brown University began its life as the College of Rhode Island. In 1804, Nicholas Brown gave the college $5000 in order to endow two professorships, and in gratitude the Corporation renamed the college in his honor. This is, of course, all … [Continue reading] about The Naming of Brown University
A couple of months ago I published a letter in the New York Times sketching a different way forward for academic publishing. I have now published a more robust version of that argument in The Chronicle: Academic Publishing: Toward a New Model … [Continue reading] about Toward a New Model of Academic Publishing