MLA Commons | William Caraher | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/billcaraher/activity/ Activity feed for William Caraher. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:16:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fb41cf063966c937ff55080d7d7fec55 William Caraher deposited Making Home in the Bakken Oil Patch (2020) in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707057/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 02:23:38 -0400 A piece on the archaeology and social context for home in the 21st century Bakken oil patch.

]]> 0 26b48dbd0bfb2b7a8e09736cb60cfc6e William Caraher deposited Making Home in the Bakken Oil Patch (2020) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707019/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:28:30 -0400 A piece on the archaeology and social context for home in the 21st century Bakken oil patch.

]]> 0 bee7128d912b38603c06641fc6ea2148 William Caraher deposited Collaborative Digital Publishing in Archaeology: Data, Workflows, and Books in the Age of Logistics in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706768/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:32:41 -0400 Digital practices have increasingly come to influence discussions of archaeological work in the 21st century. As a result, many archaeologists use the concept of workflow to describe the relationship between the various phases of the knowledge making process from fieldwork to analysis, interpretation, research, and writing. This paper extends this…[Read more]

]]> 0 df1a18518c62603f45b86c35544976a6 William Caraher deposited Collaborative Digital Publishing in Archaeology: Data, Workflows, and Books in the Age of Logistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706687/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:26:57 -0400 Digital practices have increasingly come to influence discussions of archaeological work in the 21st century. As a result, many archaeologists use the concept of workflow to describe the relationship between the various phases of the knowledge making process from fieldwork to analysis, interpretation, research, and writing. This paper extends this…[Read more]

]]> 0 e496b79b2ef6b8139769a33a67c4b9d2 William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City in the group Roman Provincial Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673835/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:26:10 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 a3375826d973be59117a60fae32a47a3 William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City in the group Roman archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673834/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:25:55 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 d8d9600e3694a5e77d9e2c56cb588ea4 William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City in the group Byzantine Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673833/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:25:54 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 6c46e6016a3a147c0872c6b812a34478 William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673832/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 6c46e6016a3a147c0872c6b812a34478 William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673831/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Jas Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 518a6ee03ea804a0797ecbac82481c1d William Caraher deposited Reflowing Legacy Data from Polis Chyrsochous on Cyprus in the group Roman archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673776/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:26:00 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 518a6ee03ea804a0797ecbac82481c1d William Caraher deposited Reflowing Legacy Data from Polis Chyrsochous on Cyprus in the group Byzantine Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673775/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:26:00 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 35f1751069d8a8e9ffdb3c622c426882 William Caraher deposited Reflowing Legacy Data from Polis Chyrsochous on Cyprus in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673774/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:25:27 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 35f1751069d8a8e9ffdb3c622c426882 William Caraher deposited Reflowing Legacy Data from Polis Chyrsochous on Cyprus in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673773/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:25:27 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 2a3f877ba3fe8d68d460d83875275dcc William Caraher deposited The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673764/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:23:10 -0500 his chapter argues that the textual and archaeological evidence for imperial involvement in the Corinthia provides faint traces of what Elsner has called “internal friction” in the manifestation of imperial and Corinthian authority in the region.

]]> 0 8fa147a975fb589b9a988f2aaa448084 William Caraher deposited Reflowing Legacy Data from Polis Chyrsochous on Cyprus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673759/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:14:12 -0500 A short paper on legacy data, flow, and time in archaeology based on my experiences at Polis on Cyprus.

]]> 0 93dfaa7264e81d6d8ea5039d963b5efe William Caraher deposited Collaborative Digital Publishing in Archaeology: Data, Workflows, and Books in the Age of Logistics in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637258/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:25:25 -0400 In the 21st century, digital practices are transforming both archaeological practices in the field and the concept publication. The fragmentation of archaeological knowledge as digital data produces portable, sharable, remixable, and transformable publications that are less stable and less definitive than their predecessors in print. As a result,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae0ba010b99bcb66cd50fb2f9679b2c8 William Caraher deposited Collaborative Digital Publishing in Archaeology: Data, Workflows, and Books in the Age of Logistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637206/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:19:55 -0400 In the 21st century, digital practices are transforming both archaeological practices in the field and the concept publication. The fragmentation of archaeological knowledge as digital data produces portable, sharable, remixable, and transformable publications that are less stable and less definitive than their predecessors in print. As a result,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e32724943ed8f614e9995a35d9356e15 William Caraher deposited Slow Archaeology, Punk Archaeology, and the Archaeology of Care in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625058/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:26:18 -0500 This article considers the impact of both historical and digital transhuman practices in archaeology with an eye toward recent conversations concerning punk archaeology, slow archaeology, and an archaeology of care. Drawing on Ivan Illich, Jacques Ellul, and Gilles Delueze, the article suggests that current trends in digital practices risk both…[Read more]

]]> 0 d35dd547d07ba34fa04ff63b4015338e William Caraher deposited Slow Archaeology, Punk Archaeology, and the Archaeology of Care https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625028/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:08:38 -0500 This article considers the impact of both historical and digital transhuman practices in archaeology with an eye toward recent conversations concerning punk archaeology, slow archaeology, and an archaeology of care. Drawing on Ivan Illich, Jacques Ellul, and Gilles Delueze, the article suggests that current trends in digital practices risk both…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7dd154c59e51b3963e4efdfae11aa0f William Caraher deposited Humanities in the Age of Austerity: A Case Study from the University of North Dakota https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624866/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:21:37 -0500 This is a short article that discussed the impact of austerity on the University of North Dakota and its long-standing literary journal, North Dakota Quarterly.

]]> 0 e54c162f735ac922fd5651b71e0a50b8 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group Roman archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623747/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:27:00 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 cbb63fd5ebaa924c47a4529f5952ebb2 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group Biblical archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623746/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:26:59 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 9a18bce84389c38568e2836340a323b4 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623745/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:26:24 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 9fbce35325d28c074e8dff42dd62a3f6 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623744/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:25:40 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 9fbce35325d28c074e8dff42dd62a3f6 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623743/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:25:40 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 aa6f0c4b8b6a1678983cd8115cf99774 William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623722/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:06:17 -0500 A short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.

]]> 0 b05a6c590bbaefc6860fc8f34d6a1a31 William Caraher deposited Working Group in Digital and New Media Annual Report 2013-2014 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622655/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:25:23 -0400 The 2013-2014 academic year was exceptionally productive for the Working Group in Digital and New Media. Members of the Working Group delivered numerous papers, wrote grant proposals, won grants, submitted articles, forged new collaborations, and published and performed digital datasets, games, and new pieces of music. The Working Group sponsored…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a587411c6e3a1a1e4c3408d18833b1 William Caraher deposited Working Group in Digital and New Media Annual Report 2010-2011 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622649/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:04:31 -0400 The Working Group in Digital and New Media emerged as the result of funding awarded from the President’s 2009 call for collaborative and transdisciplinary white papers in his New Initiative funding program. The Working Group is dedicated to the support and development of digital and New Media projects across the disciplines on campus. Since 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b33f22b0522af29bb00fa7715a5ebe9 William Caraher deposited Working Group in Digital and New Media Annual Report 2009-2010 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622648/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:00:22 -0400 The Working Group in Digital and New Media emerged as the result of funding awarded from the President’s call for collaborative and transdisciplinary white papers in his New Initiative funding program. The Working Group is dedicated to the support and development of digital and new media projects across the disciplines on campus. Beginning in t…[Read more]

]]> 0 341c8052fb0e90521059018370291db0 William Caraher deposited Teaching History in a Scale-Up (Student-Centered, Active Learning Environment for University Programs) Classroom: Some Reflections on Method and Meaning https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622043/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:10:16 -0400 This is an unpublished paper that documents my use of the University of North Dakota’s Scale-Up Classroom for teaching an introductory Western Civilization class.

]]> 0 e3660d968d149ff4bb8391f7224bbd96 William Caraher deposited Dissecting Digital Divides: Teaching, Writing, and Making Knowledge of the Mediterranean Past https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622042/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:03:19 -0400 This paper considers the impact of so-called digital divides in digital approaches to teaching about the Ancient and Medieval worlds. My experience mostly derives from teaching a large (150+ student) introductory level “Western Civilization” class at the University of North Dakota. UND is a mid-sized, “High Research Activity” university (accord…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dc038ce246d852517566d58d46f0128 William Caraher deposited The South Basilica at Arsinoe (Polis-tes-Chrysochou): Change and innovation in an Early Christian Basilica on Cyprus in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615215/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:39:58 -0400 La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vie siècle apr. J.-C., est une église chypriote typique de la fin de l’Antiquité. Nous discutons ici les modalités des transformations apportées à sa structure et la façon dont ses constructeurs ont résolu les problèmes que présentait ce site, en part…[Read more]

]]> 0 856da75e4ab38e3050f0b552dad66714 William Caraher deposited Life in Abandonment: The Village of Lakka Skoutara, Corinthia in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615196/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:33:24 -0400 This is a pre-review, preprint of a contribution to volume on abandonment in antiquity edited by Deb Brown and Rebecca Seifried that will by published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota in 2019. The article documents visits to an “abandoned” settlement called Lakka Skoutara in the southeastern Corinthia over a period of over 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 856da75e4ab38e3050f0b552dad66714 William Caraher deposited Life in Abandonment: The Village of Lakka Skoutara, Corinthia in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615195/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:33:24 -0400 This is a pre-review, preprint of a contribution to volume on abandonment in antiquity edited by Deb Brown and Rebecca Seifried that will by published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota in 2019. The article documents visits to an “abandoned” settlement called Lakka Skoutara in the southeastern Corinthia over a period of over 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 73ecdaa2d63385af7d2bc22a285e595b William Caraher deposited Making Home in the Bakken Oil Patch in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615173/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:26:33 -0400 This is an essay prepared for the republication of the 1958 Williston Report, edited by Kyle Conway and published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (forthcoming). The essay examines attitudes toward housing and home during the early-21st century Bakken oil boom in Western North Dakota.

]]> 0 50aba907e62f344446777ca44e92f1fc William Caraher deposited The South Basilica at Arsinoe (Polis-tes-Chrysochou): Change and innovation in an Early Christian Basilica on Cyprus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614735/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:54:12 -0400 La basilique Sud de Polis-tes-Chrysochou (ancienne Arsinoé), construite à la fin du vie siècle apr. J.-C., est une église chypriote typique de la fin de l’Antiquité. Nous discutons ici les modalités des transformations apportées à sa structure et la façon dont ses constructeurs ont résolu les problèmes que présentait ce site, en part…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8e460561de76d7e685443256f4b3536 William Caraher deposited Life in Abandonment: The Village of Lakka Skoutara, Corinthia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614174/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:04:32 -0400 This is a pre-review, preprint of a contribution to volume on abandonment in antiquity edited by Deb Brown and Rebecca Seifried that will by published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota in 2019. The article documents visits to an “abandoned” settlement called Lakka Skoutara in the southeastern Corinthia over a period of over 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 0edd4c9955c115f64f1b0ba158d9927a William Caraher deposited Making Home in the Bakken Oil Patch https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1613698/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:29:58 -0400 This is an essay prepared for the republication of the 1958 Williston Report, edited by Kyle Conway and published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (forthcoming). The essay examines attitudes toward housing and home during the early-21st century Bakken oil boom in Western North Dakota.

]]> 0 9ef4d5cc5a7995f9072ec702564fe05b William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group Byzantine Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603458/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:13:04 -0400 This dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ef4d5cc5a7995f9072ec702564fe05b William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group Biblical archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603457/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:13:04 -0400 This dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]

]]> 0 419079db9c3ab91cfe86423db84805b0 William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603456/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:12:26 -0400 This dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]

]]> 0 bff2810d99436e7b7e10f116f5c45579 William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603358/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:46:17 -0400 This dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f165a37c095a1841aa097402d50b4b7 William Caraher deposited Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596436/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:05:54 -0500 This is a preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal Contemporary Archaeology. The article summarizes the recent work of the North Dakota Man Camp Project to understand the largely undocumented migrants arriving in the Bakken Oil Patch for work. It argues that efforts to document short-term labor in the Bakken exposes particular…[Read more]

]]> 0 c55020a7d6776a52365c1a60b41fe4b7 William Caraher deposited History of North Dakota: Women’s Hockey, Higher Ed & the UND Budget https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596270/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:49:16 -0500 This is a class on the recent budget cuts at the University of North Dakota. The class has four goals:

1. To become more familiar with the complexities of the modern university and UND, in particular.
2. To encourage critical thinking about the institutional structure of higher education in the U.S. in a historical
context and local…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f8af7047bc23db58758427e0bee8896 William Caraher deposited Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1595573/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:05:26 -0500 This is a preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal Contemporary Archaeology. The article summarizes the recent work of the North Dakota Man Camp Project to understand the largely undocumented migrants arriving in the Bakken Oil Patch for work. It argues that efforts to document short-term labor in the Bakken exposes particular…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e71cd35c5915c80d9fe7d0bc2a5371f William Caraher deposited The Archaeology of Early Christianity: The History, Methods, and State of a Field https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581678/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:32:10 -0400 This is a preprint of the introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology edited by David K. Pettegrew and William Caraher.

]]> 0 54be786d42fe87ac4a3164f345383265 William Caraher deposited Dream Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565954/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:27:57 -0400 A paper on dreams in Greek archaeology prepared for a 2010 Presidential Lecture series at the University of North Dakota.

]]> 0 c3471c6c75a07521df490f7fa5a001f3 William Caraher deposited Archaeological Data and Small Projects: A Case Study from the Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project on Cyprus in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565016/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:04:13 -0400 A case study in how small projects use digital tools.

]]> 0 03d0779cd1826117af9824e2014672bc William Caraher deposited Archaeological Data and Small Projects: A Case Study from the Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project on Cyprus in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565015/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:04:01 -0400 A case study in how small projects use digital tools.

]]> 0 384e9937b4405fca7ecb743e7bb28c98 William Caraher deposited Slow Archaeology in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565014/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:03:47 -0400 An article on Slow Archaeology for a volume of North Dakota Quarterly dedicated to Slow.

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