Steph Strauss

Anthropological Art Historian, PhD | Mesoamerican Monumental Art & Writing (Formative/Preclassic Era) | She/her | @Yale @GWTweets @UTAustin

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

The exhibition opening and reception for The Codex Borgia last night was incredible - here are a few snapshots of the evening #mesomeetings

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@ajtzib Thanks, Dave!

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

Happy to be teaching undergraduates again, with a grad seminar coming up in the Spring, too. For 2022-2023, I’ll be sharing Aztec art, Maya art, and the visual principles of Mesoamerican hieroglyphic writing with students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota!

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@kayleespencer Remote classes across the board (which is challenging, but also great). I wanted to message you to get your insights, if you have any spare time!

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@tlatollotl I would for sure (and do for the pan-Mesoamerican overview at the start of the courses, and in my own Meso classes)! But the courses they wanted for this year were Aztec and Maya specific. I’ll do more comparative work with the grad students & will def have West Mexico in there.

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@risenc @NYTObits Thank you for the research and writing of this important obituary. Is there a stylistic reason that bell hooks is referred to as Ms. hooks, rather than Dr. hooks, in the final copy?

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@e_davishale *** Chef’s kisses ***

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@SarahDigsDeep @AmyJoKennedy This is amazing! What an awesome collaboration for you guys. Congratulations!

[Tlatollotl @tlatollotl]

Spotted in San Antonio, TX

#tlaloc #mesoamerica

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@hormiga One student mentioned they “didn’t like how I changed the style of dates halfway through the class” ...But it was a history course and all that happened was we progressed from BC/BCE to AD/CE after the midterm.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

If academia can't offer financial security, medical care, and benefits, it's not a real career track for disabled academics. I can't afford to move every year, change doctors every year, lose medical treatments every year. I'm not applying to any VAPs or adjunct positions. 1/5

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@GbuckTeo Congratulations Gina!!!

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

@sm9eb UV light can reveal edits/repainting/overpainting of painted works and restorations of sculpted works.

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

Wonder Woman 1984 was all fun and games until they brought in Dzibilchaltun and the Maya Collapse, and Diana could suddenly read a Postclassic Maya codex, horizontally

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

In these unprecedented times, I just can’t stop thinking about cinema’s most famous archaeologist, and how absurd and villainous it would sound for other characters to address him as Mr. Jones. “Hey [Epstein], you call her Dr. [Biden]!”.

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

Art History TT job calls go one of two ways: “we’re hiring a specialist in African, Asian, Oceanic, or Latin American art (any time period, Ancient to Modern)” OR “we’re hiring a Northern Renaissance specialist with a focus on the Low Countries, preferably late 15th C. Flanders.”

[Steph Strauss @StephMStrauss]

A field hospital is being set up in the El Paso Convention Center, patients will be airlifted to other cities, the Governor is requesting that Beaumont Army hospital open up its doors for civilian non-COVID patients... Note that there are 5+ major civilian hospitals in El Paso.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

El Paso County is issuing a curfew of 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. after coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have spiked in recent weeks.

Officials are asking residents to stay home for the next two weeks in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. https://t.co/odRJZFkRIK

[Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein @drNYCnerd]

As a linguist, my takeaway is that we've all decided it's ok to go with "Kamala" and "Pence" and - no. Don't do this. Parallel reference terms, please.

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

Signed, sealed, delivered 💌

#DidYouKnow: From 1890–1891, #MaryCassatt produced 10 color aquatints inspired by an exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts.
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See a selection of them and their drypoint precursors through October 5.

Learn more: https://t.co/KW9WsUKwlw

[Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry @icxicoatl]

Here's a famous illustration of tlamacazque "givers of offerings" bloodletting in the Codex Mendoza (1540s) folio 62r.

A thread on what goes unnoticed 1/