In May 2009, the semester before I started graduate school, I attended a conference on Late Antiquity. I was excited for the conference, because this was the field I had intended to study, and I thought that I would be familiar with the subjects of the talk. After all, I was a star student in… Continue reading Learning How to Learn
Nouns and Verbs, Arrays and Strings
How does an ancient historian decide to start learning to code? The short answer: it's all about language. For me, it all started to click this past summer, while I was back in Colorado visiting family. I'd finished a one-year postdoc, and begun to think about what to do next with my life. For the… Continue reading Nouns and Verbs, Arrays and Strings
Athens, Jerusalem, and Post-Academe
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Church to do with the Academy? -Tertullian (c. 200 CE) Like many Humanities Ph.D.s in today’s job market, I am currently transitioning out of academia, having decided that I do not want to continue year after year of putting my life on hold in the… Continue reading Athens, Jerusalem, and Post-Academe
From Codices to Code 