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I’ve never shared this before. A story thread about what I witnessed The Morning After The Election in 2016, in the Hotlanta airport, on my way to Lima, Peru. Nov

Whew here we go. Lots of folks are upset about this choice. A thread about Cleopatra, and her ethnicity/ “look”, and why this is considered controversial 1/? (FWIW: I’m an

*The Egyptologist has entered the chat room* Sit down a spell, y'all. I need to talk about this viral video, and give you some context. Been working in Egypt for

In honor of #RBG, a thread on Egyptian menat collars (the embroidered or beaded collars she always wore- her signature “dissent” item). Here pictured with Seti I at Abydos What

Tonight it feels right to share my real #WakandaForever story. I met Ryan Coogler at TED 2 years ago, and said, “As an archaeologist who specializes in satellites- you nailed

To all of you not employed by higher ed: stop it with your Very Bad Takes on online teaching, university funding models, and what faculty should be paid. There are

I’m rethinking my uni classes for fall (I’m predicting 100% online across US, just wait). Here’s what I’m thinking:1) More short response to prompt/article assignments2) Creative output assignments: Making Tiktoks3)

For some reason (monuments coming down? discussion of slavery?) there are a TON of bad tweets circulating right now about how "slaves built the pyramids of Giza in Egypt." IT

PSA For ANYONE who might be interested in how to pull down an obelisk* safely from an Egyptologist who never ever in a million years thought this advice might come

As much as I love archaeology and Egyptology, we have to acknowledge-esp now- their deeply racist, colonialist, and nationalist roots- and ongoing practices. It is a field that has caused

What if, instead of escaping Earth to the Moon and beyond in rockets, we focus on making Earth worthy of a visit by other beings? Please don’t “why not both?”

This article gets 10/10 YIKES how is this even remotely possible? How can we even dare imagine putting our students, staff, and faculty at this level of risk?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-colleges-universities.html?action=cli