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Author Archives: Kathleen Sheppard
Trust Falls and #Discovery in #Archaeology
GIFSoup I hesitate to say trust falls, but it seemed like a catchy title (and this gif from Mean Girls is great). I will be talking about falling into discoveries of the archaeological kind, however. They may have actually looked … Continue reading
ICYMI: Book Review: Wonderful Things, Vol. 2 — HARN Weblog
ICYMI: I wrote this book review over at HARNgroup. Check it out! Book Review: Jason Thompson, Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914 (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015). The second installment of … Continue reading
The #Archive: Women Administrators as Network Hubs
A little over a year ago, I wrote this post about Emily Paterson, the General Secretary for the then-Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) from 1892-1919. I won’t rehash that post for you, but the main point was that there are … Continue reading
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ICYMI: Writing about Correspondence
I contributed another post to the HARN blog. It was about 10 days ago, but I’d love your thoughts on how you use correspondence in your research. https://harngroup.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/the-immortality-of-letters/
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Writing Elsewhere
I have too been working! To prove it, look at this. Two weeks ago, I did a book review for HARN Towers. It was a review of Andrew Humphreys book On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel. This … Continue reading
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The Tomb of Perneb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
It has been almost 6 weeks since I’ve posted anything, but that doesn’t mean no work is getting done. I’m busy writing a paper for the HARN/Swedish Institute Conference in October; working on a volume of edited correspondence (more on … Continue reading
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ICYMI: @HistoricEngland’s Martyn Barber is #Serious
Very serious things happening over at HARN Towers: https://harngroup.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/enviable-minds-extraordinary-turnips/
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Why I Teach in #HigherEd
My last post talks about what to do in these long summer days. Usually I take the second half of May kind of easy. I have a few deadlines coming up, but they’re easily managed. This post comes from one … Continue reading
Time hangs so heavy in the summer…
Henry James wrote in his Portrait of a Lady: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” As for this lady, well, so many summer mornings will be filled with lovely … Continue reading
Part 5: The Paper and my #CVofFailures
This is the FINAL post about what I’ve detailed in this, this, this, and especially THIS post. After I posted the 4th part, and as I read through it as I posted it, I realized that my argument is valid, … Continue reading
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