I had a very productive postdoctoral appointment in the Coin Room at the Yale University Art Gallery for the past couple of years and now it has drawn to a close. I will certainly miss everyone there. In addition to the great people I was able to work with in the Art Gallery and in Classics, it was also a great pleasure to collaborate with the several courses that wished to learn about objects in the collection, to teach my own seminar last fall on a topic that was both fun for me and the students, and to design course-related and numismatic exhibits. We also made great progress on the digitization of the collection and have created photographic records of virtually all of the ancient coins. The next postdoc will get to coordinate the digitization of the medals and other parts of the collection and work with a new group of student employees in the fall.
In August, I am taking up a faculty appointment at Baylor University. I am excited about this new opportunity and look forward to working with my new colleagues, returning to the classroom, and having more time (maybe) for research.
There are many projects that I need to tackle (articles, my book, and a potential excavation project) and so updates to this website are likely to remain infrequent. However, if there is something that anyone would like to see here, I am always open to suggestions.
I think I have shared my new email address and contact information with everyone who needs it. If I inadvertently overlooked anyone, please let me know.
1 comments:
I am happy to hear of your good fortune. Congratulations and good luck. I certainly hope you'll have more time and incentive for research. Please, though, not just research on the coins themselves, but more of the splendid and informed writing you were doing two years back on the coin trade and its context. That was very valuable and I'd like to see you expand on that (and maybe get a book out on it). There is very little other information about these topics out there in the public domain beyond what you have written and an obvious need for more discussion.
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