Do you need an official bio for me? Perhaps this will do?
Liv Mariah Yarrow is a Professor at the City University of New York, in Classics at Brooklyn College and in Classics and History at the Graduate Center. She earned a BA from the George Washington University and an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. Her books include Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (Oxford 2006) and The Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge 2021). She co-directs the Roman Republican Die Project with Dr. Lucia Carbone at the American Numismatic Society, preserving and expanding the work of Dr. Richard Schaefer.
Do you need my CV? This one was last updated November 2022. Consider emailing me for a more up-to-date version if this is more than 3-4 months old.
Do you need my “official” university webpage?
Do you want a sense of me as both an academic and a human?
This is a interview I did with “Comfort Classics” in the midst of the pandemic; it focused on the pleasures of academic work. This interview was with my college’s alumni magazine focusing on my RRDP research and how that benefits our students. Both are from 2021. This short video from the 2022 American Numismatic Society Gala features me talking about why I love sharing coins with my students.
On 3 March 2018 I decided to change my domain name from brooklynsabbatical.wordpress.com to livyarrow.org. Most everything below still holds true, but slowly more professional material and links to my various other websites will be added. If you’d like to follow me on twitter, you can find me @profyarrow
Over the course of writing, the function of the blog have evolved. Originally, it was as I said on day #1: “This blog is an attempt to have an answer to the question: “where did the time go?” It will have some content — free-writing about the material I’m actually researching and published elsewhere in a more formal manner.”
These days it is less personal and reflective, more and more it has become a holding place for notes and ideas that are ‘distracting’ me from my writing. Sometimes, I want to write through an idea to see where I end up and what I really think. A sandbox, as it were. Other times its a place to hold notes on subjects I may wish to return to later. Thus, I will often go back and add an update to an old post when I find something that might be tangentially related, just to keep it all together in one spot.
I write here whenever I find time to research and on occasion when I come across related things in my teaching prep. I’m not due a sabbatical again for sometime, but I like to think of this as my virtual sabbatical–proof that during my 3-4 3-3 teaching load (thanks to my union!), parenting twins, and administrative duties that I’m still a scholar, creatively and continuously engaged in my disciplines of numismatics and historiography.
I am also trying not to go back over and edit my writing here, although I sometimes do anyway. I am openly acknowledging my dyslexia. If I held myself to the standard of a typo-free blog post, I’d never write anything here. Or, I’d spend hours rereading in anxious narcissistic fashion my previous posts. Copy editing has its place, but for me that will be at the stage of formal publication and it will require the help of others!
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
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