Insert joke about Jewish mothers here. Read More This morning marked a major success when I made it downstairs with both of my children by myself. This is going to be an interesting year. Read More At the end of high school, I became really interested in JM Barrie’s classic story of Peter Pan. This […]
The words “revise and resubmit” carry with them a particular emotional response in academia: a unique combination of hopeful self-satisfaction, anxiety, and existential dread. Its a trite truism that we all need to learn to accept criticism. Academia turns accepting criticism into an art, that also happens to be part of our daily workload. Revise […]
Last week I stayed home and did some editing. This week I read more medieval writings about urine. So, pretty mundane stuff. Read More This week I learned a valuable lesson about planning, remembered why imposter syndrome is a waste of time, and read some Arabic. Read More In my first week in the archive, […]
I’m sick of chef culture. If you like to cook and you are very online, chances are that in the last few years you have abandoned tv’s cooking show offerings (because, really, what the Food Network does now can hardly be called cooking) and fled to youtube. And upon your arrival at youtube, you have […]
Ph.D. expected May 2022 History M.Phil May 2018 Fields: Medieval Mediterranean, Pre-Modern Science, Material Culture, Modern Islam M.A. May 2017 Thesis: “Nearly Gold and Nearly Perfect?: The Cathedral Doors of Monreale” Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA M.A. May 2015 History Fields: Medieval Mediterranean, Medieval Islam Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Special Student and Student Researcher, […]
This week I learned a valuable lesson about planning, remembered why imposter syndrome is a waste of time, and read some Arabic. Read More In my first week in the archive, I consider appropriate packing strategies for short trips, grapple with late medieval handwriting, and deal with not being an expert in manuscripts. Read More […]
Hey, have you heard of this thing called cancel culture? Read More I started this week off with a visit to a class on plague. Most of my work time was spent compiling manuscripts into an appendix that no one will ever read. And I’m taking out my mounting anxiety by sewing a coat. Read […]
A few years ago, the EU declared that in today’s digital search landscape, individuals have the right to be forgotten. Essentially, our full digital histories should expire and we should be able to remove ourselves from the record for reasons of privacy and crafting personal natives. You might be surprised to learn that, as a […]
A lot more than names and dates. Read More Game of Thrones is over, but the blog posts continue. Spoilers, obviously. Read More A friend recently asked me how to explain to a group of normal, reasonable people that the ancient Greeks didn’t invent science Read More
A few years ago, the EU declared that in today’s digital search landscape, individuals have the right to be forgotten. Essentially, our full digital histories should expire and we should be able to remove ourselves from the record for reasons of privacy and crafting personal natives. You might be surprised to learn that, as a […]
At the end of my research trip in Sicily, I tacked on a week to check out some things in Vienna. Read More This week started off very productive and then I just lost steam. Read More Last week I stayed home and did some editing. This week I read more medieval writings about urine. […]
My mom has a bit of a problem with experts. If you asked her, my mom would tell you that the problem with experts is that they don’t have to justify their opinions on the basis that they have implicitly earned that trust, and, in the reverse, other people who are not experts have not. […]
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that coffee sales are down as a result of the pandemic. Like makeup and gasoline, coffee is less in demand when people aren’t leaving their houses, and like the restaurant industry as a whole, coffee shops often rely on foot traffic or at the very least gathering indoors, […]
Happy new year. Read More I wrote a few weeks back about a major blowup that happened in the historical costuming community, when a prominent member outed herself as a bigot. This is only one of many recent events that seem to be constantly shaking this subculture, likely as its membership grows and changes, and […]
