Presentations and Publications

Presentations

• “Elagabalus at Wiley: Deconstructing Classics and the Rightsizing of Europe in the World History Curriculum at an HBCU,” International Classics Conference – Ghana, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, October, 2021. (Accepted, rescheduled due to COVID-19, then withdrawn due to March 2021 anti-LGBT attack in Ghana; searching for a new academic venue.)

• “Cicero's Words and Senet's Rules: Bringing Rome and Egypt to Life for World History Students Via Cultural Immersion Days.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Virtual, February 26, 2021.

• “The Call of 1824: Rebellions and Revolutions in Mexico for Liberalism and Independence and the Rise of Santa Ana.” National Foreign Language Week Panel, Wiley College, March 2, 2020.

• “Verba Nostra Arma Nuclearia Firmentur: Representations of Classical and Ancient Leaders in Sid Meier's Civilization Series and Its Fandom,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, February 20, 2020.

• “Buddhism Talk,” Interfaith Dialogue-Campus Ministry, Julius S. Wiley College, January 29, 2020.

• Jay Carriker with Raymond K. Fogg, Bonnie Strauss, and Susan Spears, “Wakanda in Marshall,” Wiley College Day, Michelson Museum of Art, April 13, 2018.

• “Roma Victa: the Roman Citizen, the Other, and Reparations,” Phi Alpha Theta 2014 Biennial Convention, January 2, 2014.

• "Comics, Civilization, Cable, and the Construction of History in Pop Culture,” Pixels, Panels, & Prose Conference, University of Texas at Tyler, April 13, 2013.

• “The Ever Evolving Hatshepsut Problem: An African Queen and the Construction, Interpretation, and Expression of Identity,” Toyin Falola Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 29, 2013.

• “The Curious Emperor: Religious Toleration and Context during the Varian Shift,” Graduate History Conference, Louisiana State University, March 22, 2013.

Publications

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2391-3879 (registered in 2020)

• “The Ever-Evolving Hatshepsut Problem: An African Queen and the Construction, Interpretation, and Expression of Identity,” In Gendering African Social Spaces: Women, Power, and Cultural Expressions, ed. Shadrack Nasong’o, edited by Toyin Falola and Wanjala Nasong’o, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. (Publisher Sample, chapter not included)

Work Cited In

• Özman, Recep and Okan Açil. “Roma İmparatoru Elagabalus ve Dönemi” in Prof. Dr. Salim Cöhce Armağanı: Türk Tarihine Adanmış Çileli Bir Ömür, edited by Alpaslan Ceylan, 646. Erzurum: Güneş Vakfı, 2017.

• Passwater, Thomas William. Receiving A Queen: A Queer and Trans Feminist Classical Reception Rhetorical Historiography of Elagabalus. Syracuse: Syracuse University, 2022.

• Sidebottom, Harry. The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome. London: Oneworld Publications, 2022.