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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · 9d

This fr. Absurd and ridiculous

Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 9d

Why are we even seeing dude’s name pop up? I shouldn’t even see dude’s name in my email notifications. Why is dude still being published? How does dude still have a platform? We really separating the scholar from the scholarship in 2025? What a joke.

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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 18d

Shout out to @dominicmachado.bsky.social for making my visit to Holy Cross so enjoyable and enriching!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 27d

shoutout to my one alma mater doing something good right now. WFU has made so many changes since i went there, and many have made me proud to be a deac.

New Wake Forest University initiative makes tuition free for NC families earning under $200K

The program is designed to expand access for talented students across the state regardless of financial background.

www.wfmynews2.com

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Aug 22

There’s still a couple weeks to sign up for the mentorship program! Please do consider joining us!

Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Aug 15

Sign up please! This has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in my professional life!!!

Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Aug 12

Love to know the answer

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · Jul 22

Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027!

Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren

Eight headshots of men and women smiling at the camera

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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please see the new episode of this podcast featuring yours truly! Talking about Roman slavery and slavery in the New Testament. youtu.be/qcs91KA-Azg?...

An Honest Conversation about Slavery and the New Testament | Bible & Archaeology

YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

youtu.be

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Jun 18

You can read the whole thesis online too:

crossworks.holycross.edu/engl_honor/21/

Take note of the super cool artist illustrations funded by @scsclassics.bsky.social’s AWMC grant too!!!

"Systems of Survivance: Exploring Armenia's Ancient Past Through Dungeo" by Jango Janigian

Systems of Survivance: Exploring Armenia’s Ancient Past Through Dungeons and Dragons is an English Honors and Classics undergraduate thesis that brings the hidden voices of Armenia’s past into dialogu...

crossworks.holycross.edu

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Jun 18

Okay time to brag! My student Jango Janigian designed and produced a Dungeons and Dragons game set in ancient Armenia that considers questions of empire, survivance, and indigeneity for their thesis! Here’s a write-up of their spectacular project in HC magazine:

www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Jango Janigian ’25 Wants to Take You on an Adventure

Janigian’s English Honors Program thesis introduces Dungeons & Dragons players to the rich history and mythology of ancient Armenia.

www.google.com

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Jun 18

You can read the whole thesis online too:

crossworks.holycross.edu/engl_honor/21/

Take note of the super cool artist illustrations funded by @scsclassics.bsky.social’s AWMC grant too!!!

"Systems of Survivance: Exploring Armenia's Ancient Past Through Dungeo" by Jango Janigian

Systems of Survivance: Exploring Armenia’s Ancient Past Through Dungeons and Dragons is an English Honors and Classics undergraduate thesis that brings the hidden voices of Armenia’s past into dialogu...

crossworks.holycross.edu

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Jun 18

Okay time to brag! My student Jango Janigian designed and produced a Dungeons and Dragons game set in ancient Armenia that considers questions of empire, survivance, and indigeneity for their thesis! Here’s a write-up of their spectacular project in HC magazine:

www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Jango Janigian ’25 Wants to Take You on an Adventure

Janigian’s English Honors Program thesis introduces Dungeons & Dragons players to the rich history and mythology of ancient Armenia.

www.google.com

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢 Please follow this link for the SCS Blog Guidelines 📢

NB: we're looking for slightly longer essays (c. 1000-1500 words). We want to hear your voice!

Happy, as always, to discuss ideas. 🏛️ ⚱️ 🌍

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Jun 4

New issue of Journal of Ancient History Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-history.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social
@beatricepestarino.bsky.social ‪

Journal of Ancient History Volume 13 Issue 1

Volume 13, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Ancient History was published in 2025.

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · Jun 1

Probably is more historical than philological but Ziolkowski (1993) is classic:

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities | 8 | War and Society in

As was said at the outset, passages providing a whole range of connotations of diripio and its derivatives are few and refer to unusual cases. Two passages in

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · May 31

Reading Jodi Melamed’s racial capitalism this morning and this is so striking.

Link here: racialcapitalism.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 21

Give em hell! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/21/m...

‘People should not live like this.’ As ICE arrests ramp up in Mass., agents encounter more community resistance. - The Boston Globe

Massachusetts residents are increasingly pushing back on federal immigration officials' efforts to detain and deport immigrants under the Trump administration.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · May 21

CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/

For Reviewers

Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions

rheaclassicalreviews.com

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International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social · May 19

We are delighted to announce scholars Mary Jane Cuyler, Caroline Johnson Hodge, @chancebonar.bsky.social and Mark Ellison as this year's Shohet Scholars Grant recipients.

The Shohet grants support original research on the Ancient Mediterranean. Read on for more about their projects!

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International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social · May 19

Caroline Johnson Hodge, professor at College of the Holy Cross, will be cataloguing burial sites in Rome related to the Christian cult of the dead. (Here she is in Ostia Antica!)

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · May 8

This is an amazing opportunity. A chance to think about race with world leading scholars with a pedagogy explicitly centered around an ethic of care! Apply!!!!

Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · May 6

Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com

RACING THE CLASSICS

Racing the Classics began as a conference series. The summer seminar takes up the mantle of that series by inviting fellows to gather in-person for intensive, sustained conversation.

www.racingtheclassics.com

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · May 6

So excited to read this! Great work to all!

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · May 6

Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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