@ctschroeder
Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
As I—along, I suspect, with many of you—scramble to complete private foundation grant application, it’s so thoroughly clear private funding cannot compensate for the decimation of federal research support in the US—most obviously, everyone is now competing over an exponentially smaller pool of funds
Hello, people near Oklahoma. I will be in Tulsa to speak next week, if you want to come by.
calendar.utulsa.edu/event/a-hist...
💯. I would oy add that I think Mellon is even much narrower than the old NEH
And thank you @meirazk.bsky.social 😍
Honestly I felt very safe in Egypt. I know with our mad king things can go haywire though. I am so upset for the people of Egypt, who depend on tourism and now with the snap of a finger it’s all dried up
White woman wearing magenta/red glasses holding a Paddington bear
Made my connection in Heathrow and winging my way toward the states
When I was growing up my mother used to mark the ages of famous composers when they died and announce she still hadn’t accomplished as much at x at that age, sigh
For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:
Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.
I am getting texts! Pls text me in Egypt! This is so cool!!!!
This is horrifying because it implies the Iranian school mistargeting was down to Claude layer in Palantir systems. What’s more horrifying is that if the rest of the article is accurate AI was a massive force multiplier for US/Israel strikes.
Congratulations Rodney Sadler!!! A great guy I went to grad school with.
OMG Rod won!!! Rodney is a Duke OT PhD from my era
Yes: #NEH supports projects and moreover PEOPLE. Which is why it's all the more egregious that 1,400 grants were terminated and over 100 employees were fired in April 2025.
Support funding for NEH, but also please support justice for those who were economically harmed last year.
It’s one of the temples to Hathor
Isis, three temples to Hathor I think, and a church, and thats just what I know about
Philae! pleiades.stoa.org/places/786089
Not enough being said about how little preemptive work the Trump admin put into getting Americans evacuated from countries near Iran. Only telling people on a long list of nearby countries to leave yesterday "via commercial means" when it was already too late to fly out?
White woman with sunglasses and broad hat, closeup on her face/selfie standing in front of an Egyptian temple (most visible are two sandy colored pylons)
Hi friends. Greetings from Egypt. I am fine. Mom is fine. We are scheduled to fly out Friday. Keep your fingers crossed our flight goes off without a hitch. Pic from the temple of isis at Philae this morning
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
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Our team is hiring more Advising Fellows!
If you have a PhD (or equiv.) & like advising and teaching undergrads, this is the job for you.
Great pay, flexible course design, a wonderful liberal arts community, & lots of students to support!
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Good luck to you!
I will never forget as a grad student getting a letter & securing permission from a museum director to view their manuscripts (abroad) and then when I got there a month later the new museum director wldnt honor the old one’s letter. I had to go thru nat’l antiq dept bureaucracy to secure permission
on inclusivity failure: “That man’s disability got exploited that night”
This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.
Thank you. I think we are fine for now. We are in a tour organized by a very cautious European company (Viking) so I’m sure they will get us out of here if it looks like it will spread to Egypt. Egypt’s military is pretty powerful tho so hopefully it’s a non-issue
This was also true during W’s administration. look how that worked out :(
I’m currently in Egypt visiting antiquities with my mom, and hand to god Operation Epic Fury sounds like something you’d see on a New Kingdom royal stela
Someday, before I die I hope, Americans will come to realize that not choosing the lesser evil means the greater evil wins
[weakly] this was flatly unconstitutional and a congress with any investment in the constitution would remove the president from office tomorrow
There’s a lot of talk (rightly so) today about courses in high demand being marginalized/downplayed/cancelled, that the humanities in particular are very “cheap” & high ROI comparatively.
I do want remind us that justifying “what matters” via revenue generation is what got us here in the 1st place.