Scholars & Students

SASA is developing a year-long social media campaign to engage 100,000 people about the Ancient World while raising awareness that Ancient Studies produces our knowledge of all things ancient. This summer, SASA interns will create a year's worth of daily posts for this year-long Social Media Campaign that will begin in September. Posts will be developed in eight series that will each run on a particular day of the week.

One of these series will be dedicated to highlighting scholars and students working on the ancient world and feature their research to show that people studying the ancient world come from all backgrounds. In line with this goal, we would like to feature videos where students/scholars respond to one or several of the following questions. 

Questions:

1. Could you introduce yourself and what aspect about the ancient world you work on? (please make sure to explain terms that may not be clear to general audiences such as Assyriology, Egyptology, Bioarchaeology etc if you use them)

2. What was your favorite subject in school/college? Why? (if it connects to your job/studies/work on the ancient world)

3. Why are you interested in studying the ancient world? Or why did you decide to study the ancient world?

4. How can the skills you learned in ancient studies be used in other jobs/careers? (What transferable skills do/did you learn studying the ancient world?)

5. What is the most difficult part of your job/research? (are there ethical issues, contemporary political situations, exclusionary practices, physical limitations, other difficulties based on your identity/race/gender/education/economic background). 

6. If you could change one thing in your discipline, what would it be?

• The video should be 3-5 minutes long (5 minutes maximum).

• Please send us up to 3 images (images you own or are public domain) related to your research or things you will be mentioning in the video. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us: ancientandme@saveancientstudies.org.