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Blog Post #64: Graduate Student Feature with Jermaine Bryant

This is our second graduate feature blog post this week at Peopling the Past! Today we highlight the work of Jermaine Bryant, a PhD student at Princeton University whose research interests include trauma recorded in literature following the Triumviral wars, and comparing hip-hop with Roman elegy.

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Blog Post #63: Graduate Student Feature with Neal Payne

For today’s Peopling the Past blog post, we present you with another graduate feature. This time we are highlighting the work of Neal Payne, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, whose research investigates the agricultural changes during Roman occupation of what is now modern Yorkshire, UK.

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Blog Post #62: Graduate Student Feature with Caroline Barnes

In this week’s Peopling the Past blog post, we present you with another graduate feature. This week we are highlighting the work of Caroline Barnes, a PhD student researching the use of ashlar masonry in Late Bronze Age Cyprus.

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Gameboard and gaming pieces from an 18th Dynasty tomb in Abydos, Egypt (Cemetery D, Tomb D99). The gameboard and pieces are made of wood and blue faience, a glass-like material made of ground quartz. The board can be laid out to play two different games, Senet (shown in the image) and 20 Squares (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 01.4.1a).

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The first of our Halloween-month #PeoplingBlog posts about the unDEAD in the classical world is now LIVE! This week, Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver discusses beliefs and practices concerning necrophobia (fear of the dead), and revenants (those who return from the dead) in antiquity: Our second graduate student feature of the week is now live over on the #PeoplingBlog! Today, we highlight the work of Jermaine Bryant, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, whose dissertation research focuses on how trauma is recorded in Triumviral and Augustan literature: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/09/30/blog-post-64-jermaine-bryant/ It’s a BONUS CONTENT day on the #PeoplingBlog as we share another graduate student feature! Today, we are highlighting the work of Neal Payne, whose archaeological and archaeobotanical research investigates the agricultural changes during Roman occupation of what is now modern Yorkshire, UK: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/09/26/blog-post-63-neal-payne/ We made it to Friday, and we are celebrating that with another #PeoplingBlog graduate student feature! In today’s post, we highlight the work of Caroline Barnes, a PhD student researching the use of ashlar masonry in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/09/23/blog-post-61-caroline-barnes/ Peopling the Past’s #PeoplingBlog is BACK after a summer break, and we are kicking things off with a new graduate student feature! This week, we take a look at the work of Camille Acosta, who researches the burial practices of migrants in classical Athens: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/09/16/blog-post-61-camille-acosta/ How often can we uncover the stories of real people depicted in ancient portraiture? In today’s #PeoplingPodcast, Dr. Judith Swaddling tells us about the insights gained from the study of the @britishmuseum's painted terracotta sarcophagus of an Etruscan woman, Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, and of her remains preserved inside it. Nevertheless, She Persisted ✊. On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, Dr. Caitlin Gillespie joins Chelsea and Melissa to discuss what we (think we) know about one of the most famous women in the ancient world – Boudicca! Listen in, as we take a journey to Roman Britain and learn about this powerful female resistance fighter, here: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/06/21/podcast-season-3-episode-4-caitlin-gillespie/ What does it mean to be a “free woman” in the ancient Mediterranean world? Listen in to today’s #PeoplingPodcast as our guest Dr. Stephanie Budin joins Chelsea and Melissa to discuss women who lived outside of the traditional confines of the patriarchy and who were not under the control of a man: Today’s #PeoplingPodcast episode is sure to deliver! Listen in, as we call the (Roman) midwife with our featured guest Dr. Tara Mulder, and discover the sights, sounds, smells, and experiences of childbirth in ancient Rome from the perspective of professional midwifes: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/06/07/podcast-season-3-episode-2-tara-mulder/

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