Author: Jennie Davis

Admittedly, I got lost these past few weeks in the never-ending storm of school. One of those time when lifting my head to breath felt like I was wasting precious time. Okay, that’s potentially an exaggeration. I have, however, not read one page of anything that wasn’t a textbook or a journal article for the

“I’d like to stop having to explain whether or not each new feathered dinosaur specimen we discover was a bird.”  Don’t we all, Julia Clarke. Don’t we all. What Julia is actually getting at is that, as an archeologist, she’s tired of getting pushed against a wall of explaining new discoveries in terms of old

Well, as a 1st year PhD student I have managed to involve myself in not one, not two, but three bookclubs this quarter. A terrible idea? Possibly. A fabulous idea? Hopefully. My plan of attack is (either smartly or ashamedly) to read the same books for all three. Thus, my mix will be eclectic. A