Derek B. Counts

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

"From a Private Collection"

VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

Bill's chapter narrates how he turned a budget crisis into a teaching opportunity--he taught a course on the university budget, and equipped his students with the understanding and agency to advocate for *their* university--all as they produced an actual book! Teaching as activism, at its finest

Image of a book cover that reads Bearing the Burden of Booms: Energy, Extraction, Communities, and the Landscape of the Plains by Sebastian Felix Braun. The book cover shows an oil rig and appears to be splattered with oil. Vitoria Faccin-Herman designed the book cover. The book will appear in the first week of March from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota: https://thedigitalpress.org/

Coming soon.

Guest post: Matthew Knox Averett - University of Missouri Press The following is a guest blog post by Matthew Knox Averett, author of Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis.

I have a guest post about CANFIELD DRIVE on the University of Missouri Press blog. #STL

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Matthew Knox Averett, Author of Canfield Drive — Leviathan Bookstore Join us on the evening of Thursday, February 12 for a conversation with Matthew Knox Averett about his book Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis . If you...

Tonight!
#STL

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The Children of Neverville Miloš K. Ilić, The Children of Neverville. Translated by John K. Cox. Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit The Children of Never…

New book day from The Digital Press at UND and North Dakota Quarterly.

Miloš K. Ilić, The Children of Neverville. Translated by John K. Cox. Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2025.

It's free to download, cheap to buy, and very good.

thedigitalpress.org/neverville/

Book by the cover:

February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here:
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Knox Averett Matthew Knox Averett is Professor of Art History at Creighton University. This interview is based on his new book, Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis (…

Happy to chat about my book on "The Way of Improvement Leads Home" blog.
#STL #Ferguson @umissouripress.bsky.social

#STL

I will die on this mountain. And somehow if a defense pushes the runner back 7 yds.......... forward progress!!! Its nuts

At the goal line, when forward progress is stopped … it’s stopped. Officials all over North American sports leagues are on a struggle bus. #Eagles #NFLSky

Incredible: my phd advisor seemingly vindicated from the grave. Holloway, was fluent in Italian *and* spoke dialect… he spent time talking to local folks when excavating in Sicily…they told him the Riace Warriors were first discovered in Sicily/Syracuse not Calabria.

Ranked and rated: The world’s 50 greatest surviving Roman treasures You don’t have to visit Rome to have a Roman holiday, with a large legacy of Roman Empire ruins – ranked and rated here – surviving in some form to this day.

I am of course somewhat biased, but very pleased to see Paphos Archaeological Park make the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social list of ‘Ranked and rated: The world’s 50 greatest surviving Roman treasures’

No prizes for guessing No. 1
#archaeology 🏺 (paywalled)

www.smh.com.au/traveller/in...

Really cool! If interested, E. Cova has written about closets, cupboards, and storage here: doi.org/10.7834/phoe...

Head of Kritiis Boy, greek statue, and movie still of Michael Myers (Halloween)

Happy Halloween 🎃 to all the classical archaeologists (and adjacents) out there

The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota Visit the post for more.

It's Open Access Week. I do a bunch of Open Access stuff here that I'm pretty proud of. Check it out:

thedigitalpress.org

#openaccessweek2025

Major Architectural and Figurine Finds at Cyprus's Prehistoric Settlement - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists in Cyprus have completed a successful first excavation season at the prehistoric Chalcolithic settlement of Erimi Pamboula.

'Major Architectural and Figurine Finds at Cyprus’s Prehistoric Settlement'
More media coverage of recent work at the Chalcolithic settlement of Erimi Pamboula in Cyprus #archaeology 🏺

greekreporter.com/2025/10/06/c...

“but Sipowicz does it”

Bronze Age necropolis dating to 2000 BC discovered during park construction in Nicosia A Bronze Age necropolis dating to approximately 2000 BC has been discovered during park construction work in the Nicosia district.The Department of Antiquities was notified several months ago followin...

‘Bronze Age necropolis dating to 2000 BC discovered during park construction in Nicosia’
#archaeologynews 🏺

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Context and Content: The Art of WD Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Wild Drawing (WD), Context and Content: The Art of WD. Edited by Kostis Kourelis. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota Wild Drawing (WD)…

I'm very excited to announce the publication of Context and Content: The Art of WD (Wild Drawing) from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

This is the first book length treatment of WD's work. It's available as a free download. It's very cool. Get it here.

thedigitalpress.org/wd/

Very sad to hear…. I was lucky enough to take a seminar with MP on Horace in Vergil at Brown… he was amazing. Knowing my focus was on material culture, he even asked me to guest lecture on Augustan art/arch & literature for his undergraduate courses

Justin: I think you’re being a little harsh… AI just knows how much you have wanted to work in Cyprus… And is prefiguring how awesome your work would be if you did! 🇨🇾🏺🤷‍♂️

“Near” Pompeii
Poor Paestum…..😅

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...