1st Edition
Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World
List of Figures viii
Preface xiii
Contributors xvi
Introduction: Our Collective Responsibility to the Future of the Ancient Past 1
Sabrina C. Higgins and Chelsea A.M. Gardner
SECTION 1
MUSEUMS 13
1 I Will Believe in Art When It Is Made for the People: Teaching with Greco-Roman Copies in Santiago 15
Frances Gallart Marqués
2 The Unwavering Divide: Collection and Display Practices of Ancient and Medieval African Collections 34
Annissa Malvoisin
3 Respect, Recognition, and Rematriation: An Indigenous Egyptian Perspective on Meaningful Public Discourse on the Middle East and North Africa 57
Heba Abd el-Gawad
4 Indigenising as Anti-Classical? Locating Indigenous Classicisms in and Beyond Museum Frameworks 74
Kendall Lovely
5 Densities of Provenancing: Narrating the Colonial Provenance of the Bay View Collection at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 92
Ashton Rodgers
SECTION 2
TEACHING/LEARNING 107
6 The Peopling the Past Project: Multivocality and Multimodality in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Teaching 109
Christine L. Johnston, Sabrina C. Higgins, Megan Daniels, and Victoria Austen
7 Back to Basics: Illuminating the Hidden Curriculum and BIPOC Scholars to Promote a More Diverse and Equitable Field 129
Nadhira Hill
8 The Lux Project: Using Small-Scale Public Scholarship to Reach Local Audiences 148
Melissa Funke, Colton Van Gerwen, Kira Lang, and Bourke Karras
9 Teaching the Ancient World with Reproductions: Using 3D Printed Objects in Authentic Active History Learning 166
Christine L. Johnston, Alan Wheeler, Alexis Nunn, and Erin Escobar
10 Research-Driven Pedagogy and Public-Facing Outcomes: The Antioch Recovery Project 201
Ella Gonzalez, Danielle Ortiz, and Jennifer Stager
SECTION 3
PUBLIC PROJECTS, LOCAL AND GLOBAL 229
11 Wiki Education, the Ancient Mediterranean Classroom, and the Production of Global Knowledge 231
Chelsea A.M. Gardner and Victoria Austen
12 Lasting Impressions: Archaeology and Community Engagement in the Xeros River Valley (Cyprus) 251
Francesco Ripanti, Giorgos Papantoniou, Athanasios Vionis, and Andreas Lanitis
13 The Database of Religious History and Responsible Global Scholarship 275
Gino Canlas, Julian Weidemann, Andrew Danielson, Ian Randall, and M. Willis Monroe
14 Reimagining the Digital Mary Project as a Counter-Practice within/against the Neoliberal University 290
Sabrina C. Higgins, Aurora E. Camaño, and Michael R. Laurence
15 Public Humanities and the Ancient Mediterranean: A Conversation with Liv Albert of the Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby! Podcast, Flora Kirk of Flaroh Illustration, and Megan Lewis of Digital Hammurabi 307
Melissa Funke, Liv Albert, Flora Kirk, and Megan Lewis
Index 319
Biography
Chelsea A.M. Gardner is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University. She is an archaeologist working in the Mani Peninsula in southern Greece, where she is the director of the CARTography Project and the Southern Mani Archaeological Project.
Sabrina C. Higgins is Associate Professor of Aegean and Mediterranean Societies and Cultures, cross-appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. She is an archaeologist and art historian whose research interests include the cult of the Virgin Mary in Late Antique Egypt, religious transformation, sacred landscapes, gender and agency theory, late antique Monasticism, eastern Christianity, material culture of religion, and digital humanities pedagogy.
"Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences succeeds by demonstrating multiplicity. Some essays are empirical reports, others reflective manifestos, yet all share a belief that knowledge must circulate... the most comprehensive demonstration to date of how Classics can function as public humanities." - The Classical Review
