In addition to chairing I’ve taken on two new roles for the coming academic year. I’m serving as the Faculty Director for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship on my campus and I’ll also have seven weeks in residency at the Institute for Classical Studies in London as the 2025-2026 T.B.L. Webster Fellow. Those week should be the last two in November, the middle two of January, the second week in February, and the first two weeks in June.
BUT, I really hoped on here to announce this publication in which I played a part.
Termeer, Marleen, et al. “Money and Mid-Republican Rome.” Journal of Roman Studies, 2025, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435825100683. It’s open access!
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
Seems to me the regular production of specie, that can be carried and that retains value, is essential for keeping armies in the field. That’s to both pay the troops, and to pay for supplies, transportation, etc. So is there a correlation between significant Roman military campaigns and the ‘moments of acceleration’? First & Second Punic Wars?
There is correlation even some causation but we can’t explain all monetary developments through the pressure of war. Sorry I’m not more chatty. Semester is ramping up and I I’m pulled away from scholarship at the moment.