Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Writing Athena: My Cambridge Lent Term

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As I write this post, I’m aware that it might be the final one I write on this Athena: Sharing Current Research blog in Cambridge, where I’...
Thursday, 12 March 2026

Walking through the museum while thinking about Athena

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I hadn’t intended to go silent on this blog. When I arrived in Cambridge, I imagined posting at least weekly - perhaps more - charting my di...
Monday, 26 January 2026

Sharing New Research (Again): Athena, Cambridge, and why I’m revisiting divine sexuality

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For years now, I have been working on Athena. One outcome of that research, around a decade ago, was starting this blog. Its title, Sharing ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

30 Years Black Athena, 30 Years Black History Month, 3 Martins, a goddess and a discipline

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Black Athena – 30 Years On 2017 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Martin Bernal’s controversial and divisive Blac...
Friday, 13 October 2017

What does Athena have in common with Dolly Parton?

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What does Athena have in common with Dolly Parton? Several years ago I agreed to review the book , pictured here, for the Times Higher b...
Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Receiving and changing the Gorgon... moving further towards a Bright-Eyed Athena chapter

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As I said in my previous posting of earlier this week, I'll be putting out blog postings between now and December to chart - and, wel...
Monday, 2 October 2017

Bright-Eyed Athena... and her fiery-eyed monster

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Over the next few months I'll be involved in a few Athena-related activities. These include teaching a final year undergraduate modul...