Ancient Office Hours

Dr. Petra Creamer, an Assyriologist, archaeologist, and professor of the Ancient Near East at Emory University, joins Lexie to discuss focusing on the Assyrian Empire to understand how non-elites experienced state power, Assyrian deportation as a labor and control strategy that often moved families and aimed to resettle people as productive “Assyrians,” and conducting fieldwork at Katrash near Erbil, an unexpected rural Neo-Assyrian administrative/storage center likely tied to agricultural extraction and imperial bureaucracy. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 31, 2025.

Learn more about Dr. Creamer: https://mesas.emory.edu/people/biographies/Creamer-Petra.html

Follow her on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petramcreamer.bsky.social

Follow her research on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petra-Creamer

Find her publications on Academia: https://emory.academia.edu/PetraCreamer

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Dr. Jeffrey Newman, an Egyptologist and a research associate at UCLA's Pourdavoud Institute, joins Lexie to discuss his dissertation, which examines ritual performance and the origins of Egyptian bureaucracy and state formation, Predynastic and Early Dynastic chronologies, addresses First Dynasty human sacrifice, and his cultural heritage photography & photogrammetry experiences. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 22, 2025.

Learn more about Dr. Newman: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/people/jeffrey-newman/

Follow his work on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey-Newman-5

Read his dissertation: https://www.proquest.com/docview/3180856129

Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.

Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.
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Dr. Curtis Dozier, an associate professor of Classics at Vassar College, joins Lexie to discuss entering classics through Latin in public high school, founding Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics to document how white nationalist and antisemitic movements use Greco-Roman antiquity to legitimize politics, his new book The White Pedestal, and how “historical accuracy” rhetoric often masks racism and misogyny. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 14, 2025.

Learn more about Dr. Dozier: https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/cudozier

Follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/curtisdozier.bsky.social

Check out his publications on Academia: https://vassar.academia.edu/CurtisDozier

Check out his latest book “The White Pedestal”: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272734/the-white-pedestal/

Check out Pharos: https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/

Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.

Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.
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Jonathan Todd Ross, a voice actor and writer (the voice of Marik Ishtar & Yami Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series), joins Lexie to discuss getting into acting and studying at NYU, stumbling into voice work via an urgent Ultraman audition that led to Yu-Gi-Oh!, and ultimately audiobooks, and why the original Yu-Gi-Oh! dub endures—universal themes, mythic battles, and inner duality. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 8, 2025.

Learn more about Jonathan: https://www.jonathantoddross.com/

Check out his IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1475002/

Follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathantoddross

Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jtoddross

Follow him on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonathanross8102

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Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford, joins Lexie to examine psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity, citing Persian punishment of Miletus and Athens and Athenian reprisals, explore Greek ambivalence about war’s glory and horror, myth-bust Sparta as less uniquely militarist than popularly imagined, and look at reenactment as experiential rather than evidentiary. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 8, 2025.

Learn more about Dr. Konijnendijk: https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-roel-konijnendijk/

Follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/roelkonijn.bsky.social

Follow him on Twitter: https://x.com/Roelkonijn

Get updates on his Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions: https://www.askhistorians.com/amas

Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.

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