Amici! it is now May!
This update may be a bit shorter than usual, as I am writing it while returning from the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. Alas, I don't have a paper or an abstract to shar...
2022-05-02 15:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is April!
The past month has been a bit of a blur. As you might imagine, I have been trying to keep track of the current conflict in Ukraine (if for no other reason than the students in my Global History of Warfare clas...
2022-04-01 18:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is March!
You know, I had an entire Patreon update drafted last Monday (February 21st). No need for it to go to waste, so I'll include it below this newer update. In the meantime, of course, events have conspired ...
2022-03-01 16:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now February!
January has been a bustling but useful month. Article II is reformatted and back out, hopefully to better luck this time in the review process. The reformatting process isn't entirely trivial: eve...
2022-02-01 16:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! Happy New Year! It is now 2022!
December was frankly less productive than I had hoped. The early part of the month was eaten up by the normal end of semester rush to grade final exams and so on, which stretched longer into...
2022-01-02 02:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostAmicii! It is now December.
November (and early December) is always a busy month as the semester comes to a close, assignments come due and have to be graded. It is also the crescendo of the job market process. It cannot ha...
2021-12-01 17:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostSenators!
The second Q&A Referenda ad Senatum post is going to go up this week, which makes it a good time to both solicit a second round of questions (though there are still a few from the first round that I haven't done yet) a...
2021-11-19 06:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now November!
I am going to try to keep this update brief (we'll see if I succeed); as you might have guessed from the last few weeks on ACOUP, things have been quite busy. October is always a subst...
2021-11-01 17:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now October.
Classes are now in full swing, with midterms and papers coming in so I have been plenty busy. Because of COVID, this is really the first in-person semester for both my freshmen and my sophomores...
2021-10-01 22:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now September!
And what a frantic August it has been. The first week of the month was spent making a big push to finish the chapter I have been writing on the organization of the Roman military food supply for a prop...
2021-09-01 20:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now August!
August is always a busy, stressful month as we get ready for classes to start again. Syllabi have to get written, assignments crafted, schedules made and so on all before the first day of class. Thi...
2021-08-02 03:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostOur first open thread for the posing of potential Q&A questions by the ACOUP Senate. In future Senate Open Threads, my plan is to put a poll up here for topics from the last open thread that were a bit too big for a Q&A resp...
2021-07-01 16:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now July!
First, an announcement. By the consent of the Populus Paedagogorum, I have added a new tier to the Patreon, the Patres/Matres Conscripti at $8. Patres Conscripti...
2021-07-01 16:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now June!
May was a month of happenings and not happenings. On the not happening front, various articles in stages of editing or review discussed last month remain stuck there, so I don't have any exciting new writte...
2021-06-01 17:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now May!
Apologies that this is a bit late, it has been a busy week. My last lectures were this past week, my students take their finals next week, so the semester is wrapping up. This has been a tough semester...
2021-05-02 04:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now April!
This semester feels as though it has slipped by faster than I would have liked (how that is always the case!), but at least this month saw a bit more progress than last month. The essay I mentioned on Gree...
2021-04-01 15:33:55 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now March!
First, before I pile into the updates, I want to note that one of you lovely reader/patrons has very kindly made a narrated version of the "Practical Case for the Humanities" Collections essay (2021-03-02 03:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Amici! It is now February! (Or perhaps it is March the 338th, 2020 as one person on Twitter grimly joked).
Classes have started back up, so the early part of the month was spent getting my syllabi ready and so on, along with work...
2021-02-01 17:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now (by the time you read this) 2021! Congratulations, we made it.
With the semester done, December was a bit more productive from a scholarly standpoint. Article II is now officially in review (though as I hav...
2021-01-01 05:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostAmici! It is now December!
I am sure most all of us are happy to see the last of 2020 slipping by. It seems generally concluded, on no unsound basis, that this has been an 2020-12-01 18:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Amici! It is now November!
October has seemed both too long and too short. We're now well into both job application season for the 'first wave' of the 2020/1 academic year job market (which I talked about in the August Research U...
2020-11-01 18:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt is now October and I believe that 2020 has been approximately 612 months long.
We're marching along our series on iron-production on the blog. I had planned that originally as a 3-part series, which then morphed into a 4-part series...
2020-10-04 20:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, real quick update - the monthly update patreon post is going to be a bit late. I've got a number of deadlines I'm juggling (including Friday's Iron post) at the end of this week and one of them has to give way.
I should be ab...
2020-10-01 04:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt is now September! And jeepers, it has been a month!
First off, your ranks continue to swell! I know I did this bit last month but there are (as I write this) now 311 of you, which is very roughly 310 more than I expected when ...
2020-09-02 01:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et Amicae!
It is now August!
My heavens, there are (as I write this) more than 260 of you! I want to thank all of you for the absolutely incredible support you have shown me in this venture. I never expected to get th...
2020-08-01 16:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et Amicae!
It is now July!
Looking back, June felt short and for a number of reasons was somewhat less productive than could have been hoped, but there is some progress to report. I'm going to give my standard updates on wh...
2020-07-01 18:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et Amicae!
It is now June! When I think about my research, I'm fairly sure May was approximately 10 minutes long; when I think about anything else, I am reasonably sure that it was a hair short of six years. Apologies that ...
2020-06-01 21:54:08 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et Amicae!
It's now May! Although it sure seems like the last week of March has just stretched out to slowly consume the calendar. Hopefully everyone is doing well.
For this month's post, first, a number of smaller up...
2020-05-01 15:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et Amicae!
I'm doing a bit of an experiment this month - I've recorded by update as an audio file. I'm still quite new at that sort of thing, so I know it's a bit bumpy - truncating out the silences eats the back end of a few mum...
2020-04-01 14:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostAmici et amicae!
Welcome to the first monthly research update.
These updates will normally come out on the first of the month, covering the month just passed, so while this is the March update, I’m going to talk...
2020-03-12 19:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post