Dr. Laura Heath-Stout

Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 01:08 UTC

From the Bulletin of the #History of #Archaeology: a ten-article special issue on "Histories of Labor in Archaeology." Check out Allison Mickel and I's introduction for a preview, or download them all #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/collections/....

🗃️🏺 #histsci #skystorians

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

Super excited to present at this workshop at Yale in a couple of weeks! I believe in-person registration is closed, but you can attend virtually!
peabody.yale.edu/events/works...
#academicsky 🏺

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 04:00 UTC

Shit. One of my ancestors just showed up by name in one of the readings I assigned to my students about how the higher ed system is built on land theft. I mean, I knew I was descended from land thieves, but I didn't know it was quite this literal. I'm appalled.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Wow. That's extreme. I think this one feels long because every year I have to email the editors that "I changed jobs, here's my new email address" and I've had 5 different email addresses during the process!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

Wow, I just got sent proofs to check for a chapter for an edited volume that we started working on in 2019. I've been frustrated along the way, but so glad to see this work finally coming into the world!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

That's good, but wheelchair users still need to cross streets sometimes!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

I'm excited to announce the launch of www.anthroknowledge.com, the website of the Wenner-Gren workshop on the "Socio-Politics of Knowledge Production in Anthropology and Archaeology" that Jess Beck and I organized last fall! 🏺 #academicsky

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

Definitely an aesthetic improvement, but it looks like a disability access nightmare!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 07, 2024 at 02:54 UTC

The good news is that most people's last names indicate which house they're from (2nd = Deuteros, Dyas; 3rd = Tridentarius, Tern; 4th = Tettaras, Chattur; 5th = Pent, Quinn; 6th = Sextus, Hect; 7th = Septimus, Ebdoma; 8th = Octokiseron, Asht; 9th = Nonagesimus, Nav.)

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:29 UTC

(Also I acknowledge that UUism is NOT WITHOUT ISSUES in the ways it interacts with other religions... but it seems to be the only religion that teaches the basics of all world religions to its children)

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

All this is to say: living under Christian hegemony is exhausting (and there are a lot of manifestations more upsetting than this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...) Let's fix it.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:24 UTC

Many years later, after 15 years of being with my Jewish partner, I am still constantly amazed and appalled by my fellow non-Jews' ignorance of Judaism. I want "some students will be very intentionally not eating bread for a week this month" to be common knowledge.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

There was no unit on my religion, Unitarian Universalism, of course. But I had learned about everyone else's religions in my religious education at my UU congregation. I was shocked by how little my fellow students knew about each others' religions.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:22 UTC

In the Hinduism unit, I knew more than other non-Hindus. In the Buddhism unit, I knew more than other non-Buddhists. In the Judaism unit, I knew more than other non-Jews. In the Christianity unit, I knew more than other non-Christians. In the Islam unit, I knew more than other non-Muslims.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

My senior year of high school, I took a world religions class (I was at a private school associated with a progressive Protestant denomination, but with a very religiously diverse student body). Over the course of the semester, it became a running joke that I knew more than anyone else.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

This situation is making me think about how little Americans are expected to know about any religion other than their own and Christianity. A 🧵

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

So if I miss a deadline or my lesson plan for tomorrow isn't stellar or whatever, I'm blaming Christian hegemony.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

(also containing 10 days of Ramadan, so maybe just steer clear of food themes entirely?)

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 23:10 UTC

Just took a break from work to write an email to my 2-year-old's teacher about why "bread" is an inappropriate class theme for the month containing Passover (a major holiday of one of the major world religions that is observed by NOT EATING BREAD for 8 days).

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

A killjoy's work never ends...

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

Uh oh, my draft introduction for my #SAA2024 🏺 paper is 857 words long... my word limit for the whole paper is 2400... yikes... 😬

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

Today was my first day teaching #excavatingtheuniversity, my historical archaeology seminar on colleges and universities in the US. My students were fabulous! They are already so thoughtful and knowledgeable about the history and present of oppression, and excited to learn more! 🏺

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

Woohoo! Last night I turned in the revised manuscript of my forthcoming book, "Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs." Can't wait to see it in print! 🏺

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

Listening to the @deathpanel.bsky.social episode on "The Comstock Mindset" with @reallandsend.bsky.social, Abby Cartus, and @melissagiragrant.com discussing this week's Mifepristone oral arguments... and thinking about The Future of Another Timeline by @annaleen.bsky.social.

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