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Blog Post #15: Grad Student Feature with Prabhjeet Johal

In our next grad student feature, Prabhjeet Johal, Joseph Armand Bombardier funded PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto, discusses her dissertation research performing visual and contextual analyses of sculptural reliefs from Parthia and Gandhara. Johal aims to bring new, more localized perspectives on wine culture in these fascinating regions that have often been studied from hellenocentric viewpoints.

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Blog Post #14: Grad Student Feature with Aurora E. Camaño

In this week’s graduate student feature, we are highlighting the work of Aurora E. Camaño, a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, which uses social memory, restorative nostalgia and landscape archaeology to study the forced migration of peoples from the medieval Kingdoms of Armenia and their resettlement in Cilicia.

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Blog Post #13: Grad Student Feature with Nadhira Hill

In this week’s student feature, we highlight the work of Nadhira Hill, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, whose research problematizes the traditionally Athenocentric definition of the Greek symposium through a comparative exploration of the literary sources and material culture related to ancient Greek drinking practices at Athens and Olynthos.

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Marble sculptural group of Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan. Also known as the “Slipper-Slapper” group, Aphrodite is shown here fighting off Pan with her sandal.
Marble sculptural group of Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan. Also known as the “Slipper-Slapper” group, Aphrodite is shown here fighting off Pan with her sandal. The sculpture is made in Parian Marble and dates to the Hellenistic Period (ca. 100 BCE). It was found on Delos. The inscription on the base reads: “Dionysios, son of Zenon of Theodoros, from Beirut, benefactor, dedicated (the statue), in favour of himself and of his children, to the ancestral gods.” National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece inv. 3335 (Wikimedia user Zde, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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New blog content at Peoplingthepast.com! Dr. Mara Horowitz of SUNY Purchase brings us another installment of our Unknown Peoples series on the Mitanni Kingdom, a Bronze Age multi-ethnic population were major players in what is now Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. Another exciting grad student feature up at Peoplingthepast.com! Prabhjeet Johal tells us about her fascinating work on wine production and consumption in Parthia and Gandhara (present-day Iran and NW Pakistan). She's challenging hellenocentric ideas as she moves to a more localized, inter-regional approach. An exciting new grad student feature up at peoplingthepast.com! Aurora E. Camano, a PhD candidate in archaeology at Simon Fraser University, tells us about her work on the forced migration of Armenians in the medieval period and the challenges of studying this group's presence. New grad student feature up on the blog! Nadhira Hill, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan tells us about her work on expanding understanding of Greek drinking practices beyond the Athenian symposium. Find it at peoplingthepast.com! New "Unknown Peoples" post up on the blog! Dr. Gregg Gardner of UBC tells us about the many ancient groups that lived at the ancient site of Horvat Midras in Israel. Our latest grad student feature is up at peoplingthepast.com! Jelena Todorovic a PhD student in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, tells us about her work on the depiction of disability in Roman comedy. Peopling the Past is back with new content for the new year! We're starting off with a blog post by Dr. Steve Renette in our "Unknown Peoples" series on the mountain peoples of the Zagros (a region on the Iraq/Iran border). One final post at peoplingthepast.com before we take a break for the holidays: our own Dr. Sabrina Higgins of SFU takes us through the history of nativity scenes. May your holidays be peaceful and may we all find brighter days in 2021! We have a new kind of post for you today: a grad student feature! At Peopling the Past, we believe in the value of the new perspectives they bring to ancient history and archaeology and so we'll post grad student profiles on the blog throughout the year.

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