archaeologist of medieval pasts/speculator in monstrous futures @🦉Birkbeck. Silk Road motels in Armenia, everyday cosmopolitanism, work and care.🐪 anti-binary

Joined May 2018
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the realtors want me to become an absentee landlord, on this day of all days!
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Thrilled to see this online! My essay 'Thinking with #Mud: Dirt, Imagination & Early Medieval English Culture' in the latest volume in Brill's series The Elements in the #Medieval World: EARTH. #EnvHums #EnvHist #ecocriticism brill.com/display/book/97890…
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A beautiful and strange marginal figure from #Armenian gospel Or 10960, which i got to hold today 🧡
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OUT TODAY! Amazing work by colleagues at OSU on the archaeobotany of a #SilkRoad caravanserai in #Armenia -- on what travelers ate, who fed them, and how food shaped the world of the #medieval silk road 🍇🍑🌾 link.springer.com/article/10…

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and free to read here: link.springer.com/epdf/10.10…

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NEXT WEDNESDAY! I am excited to present some in-process work on ruins, wilderness, and sacred landscape in Vayots Dzor #Armenia with the @BirkbeckHCA Murray Seminar bbk.ac.uk/events/event/45652…
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Excited to be heading into Berkeley for a fun and exciting weekend of silk road, scalar histories, and (for me) medieval #Armenian landscape literature and art 🌴🌳🦚🐎 events.berkeley.edu/ieas/eve…
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The Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre building ahead of the jubilee evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Sergey Parajanov. #Yerevan
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just got comments back on an article which i am excited to read but instead i am grading dissertations like the wind, if not as fast as the actual wind which is on its way #florida #milton
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An amazing opportunity for junior Armenian studies scholars to work with amazing people! ii.umich.edu/armenian/manoog…
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alarmed grifos, nat. gallery of umbria
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looking for a photo to celebrate a new article (on old data) coming out, here is me, the day before my first solo excavation, in the late june flowers (📸 by Roman who was very kindly putting up with my freakout)
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Archaeology twitter! Folks with later medieval excavations, I'm trying to get some context on this bead from our 14th-15th c levels, any leads?
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spent today in the collections of the Yeghegnadzor Museum exploring an awesome cross section of Soviet print culture from 1984-5— this cover of Armenian Agriculture magazine is so great
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an unexpected encounter with a high medieval tympanum in a mountain side in Vayots Dzor #Armenia today, among other remains of a church ruined and dispersed by 20th c agricultural amelioration
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