field notes in progress

I'm an archaeologist, and I study the one thing almost everyone in the ancient world had but almost no one wrote about: a house.

Most of Roman history was recorded by a powerful few. Everyone else, the workers, the women, the enslaved, left almost nothing in writing. But they left their homes. A worn threshold, a repaired wall, a workshop wedged into a family house, that's evidence too, and it includes everyone. It's why I study houses, and why I look past Pompeii to the ones the textbooks skipped, in Roman North Africa and a city called Timgad.

This channel is where that meets real life:
- the ancient world in small, human pieces, cities, daily life, and the people history skips
- the honest process of finishing a PhD while teaching
- work, life, and building a good one around the work

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