April, 2022 Research Update
Amici! it is now May!
This update may be a bit shorter than usual, as I am writing it while returning from the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. ...
2022-05-02 15:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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March 2022 Research Update
Amici! It is April!
The past month has been a bit of a blur. As you might imagine, I have been trying to keep track of the current conflict in Ukraine (if for no other reason than...
2022-04-01 18:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 2022 Research Update
Amici! It is March!
You know, I had an entire Patreon update drafted last Monday (February 21st). No need for it to go to waste, so I'll include it below this newer update. ...
2022-03-01 16:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 2022 Research Update
Amici! It is now February!
January has been a bustling but useful month. Article II is reformatted and back out, hopefully to better luck this time in the review process. Th...
2022-02-01 16:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostDecember, 2021 Research Update
Amici! Happy New Year! It is now 2022!
December was frankly less productive than I had hoped. The early part of the month was eaten up by the normal end of semester rush to grade ...
2022-01-02 02:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostNovember, 2021 Research Update
Amicii! It is now December.
November (and early December) is always a busy month as the semester comes to a close, assignments come due and have to be graded. It is also the cresc...
2021-12-01 17:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostACOUP Senate Poll and Open Thread II
Senators!
The second Q&A Referenda ad Senatum post is going to go up this week, which makes it a good time to both solicit a second round of questions (though there are still a f...
2021-11-19 06:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now November!
I am going to try to keep this update brief (we'll see if I succeed); as you might have guessed from the last few weeks on ACOUP, things hav...
2021-11-01 17:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now October.
Classes are now in full swing, with midterms and papers coming in so I have been plenty busy. Because of COVID, this is really the first in-person semest...
2021-10-01 22:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostAugust, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now September!
And what a frantic August it has been. The first week of the month was spent making a big push to finish the chapter I have been writing on the organiz...
2021-09-01 20:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostJuly, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now August!
August is always a busy, stressful month as we get ready for classes to start again. Syllabi have to get written, assignments crafted, schedules made and ...
2021-08-02 03:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostACOUP Senate Open Thread I
Our first open thread for the posing of potential Q&A questions by the ACOUP Senate. In future Senate Open Threads, my plan is to put a poll up here for topics from the last open...
2021-07-01 16:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostJune, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now July!
First, an announcement. By the consent of the Populus Paedagogorum, I have added a new tier to the Patreon, the Patres/Matres ...
2021-07-01 16:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostMay, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now June!
May was a month of happenings and not happenings. On the not happening front, various articles in stages of editing or review discussed last month remain st...
2021-06-01 17:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostApril, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now May!
Apologies that this is a bit late, it has been a busy week. My last lectures were this past week, my students take their finals next week, so the semester is...
2021-05-02 04:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now April!
This semester feels as though it has slipped by faster than I would have liked (how that is always the case!), but at least this month saw a bit more progress th...
2021-04-01 15:33:55 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now March!
First, before I pile into the updates, I want to note that one of you lovely reader/patrons has very kindly made a narrated version of the "Practical Case for th...
2021-03-02 03:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary, 2021 Research Update
Amici! It is now February! (Or perhaps it is March the 338th, 2020 as one person on Twitter grimly joked).
Classes have started back up, so the early part of the month was spent g...
2021-02-01 17:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostDecember Research Update
Amici! It is now (by the time you read this) 2021! Congratulations, we made it.
With the semester done, December was a bit more productive from a scholarly standpoint. Artic...
2021-01-01 05:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Research Update
Amici! It is now December!
I am sure most all of us are happy to see the last of 2020 slipping by. It seems generally concluded, on no unsound basis, that this has been an 2020-12-01 18:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post
October Research Update
Amici! It is now November!
October has seemed both too long and too short. We're now well into both job application season for the 'first wave' of the 2020/1 academic year job mar...
2020-11-01 18:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Research Update
It is now October and I believe that 2020 has been approximately 612 months long.
We're marching along our series on iron-production on the blog. I had planned that originally as a 3-pa...
2020-10-04 20:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostQuick Update (10/1/2020)
Hey guys, real quick update - the monthly update patreon post is going to be a bit late. I've got a number of deadlines I'm juggling (including Friday's Iron post) at the end of this week and...
2020-10-01 04:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Research Update
It is now September! And jeepers, it has been a month!
First off, your ranks continue to swell! I know I did this bit last month but there are (as I write this) now 311 of you, wh...
2020-09-02 01:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostJuly Research Update
Amici et Amicae!
It is now August!
My heavens, there are (as I write this) more than 260 of you! I want to thank all of you for the absolutely incredible support you have shown me...
2020-08-01 16:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostJune Research Update
Amici et Amicae!
It is now July!
Looking back, June felt short and for a number of reasons was somewhat less productive than could have been hoped, but there is some progress to report....
2020-07-01 18:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostMay Research Update
Amici et Amicae!
It is now June! When I think about my research, I'm fairly sure May was approximately 10 minutes long; when I think about anything else, I am reasonably sure that it wa...
2020-06-01 21:54:08 +0000 UTC View PostApril Research Update
Amici et Amicae!
It's now May! Although it sure seems like the last week of March has just stretched out to slowly consume the calendar. Hopefully everyone is doing well.
Fo...
2020-05-01 15:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostMarch update
Amici et Amicae!
I'm doing a bit of an experiment this month - I've recorded by update as an audio file. I'm still quite new at that sort of thing, so I know it's a bit bumpy - truncati...
2020-04-01 14:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostMarch Research Update
Amici et amicae!
Welcome to the first monthly research update.
These updates will normally come out on the first of the month, covering the month just passed, so w...
2020-03-12 19:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post