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Lexie Henning
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Join Lexie Henning as she chats with thought leaders in academia and the entertainment industry about how they got into their field, their current work, and how they connect with the past. Together they strive to connect modern societies to ancient worlds, explore antiquity via contemporary storytelling, and introduce a wider audience to the various ways history and mythology influences popular culture around the world. Tune in for intimate conversations with established top scholars, current postgrads, early career academics, and professionals in their respective fields as their wisdom and advice has never been more accessible! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Episode 144 - Dr. Petra Creamer

    11h ago

    Episode 144 - Dr. Petra Creamer

    Dr. Petra Creamer, an Assyriologist, archaeologist, and professor of the Ancient Near East at Emory University, joins Lexie to discuss focusing on the Assyrian Empire to understand how non-elites experienced state power, Assyrian deportation as a labor and control strategy that often moved families and aimed to resettle people as productive “Assyrians,” and conducting fieldwork at Katrash near Erbil, an unexpected rural Neo-Assyrian administrative/storage center likely tied to agricultural extraction and imperial bureaucracy. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 31, 2025.  Learn more about Dr. Creamer: https://mesas.emory.edu/people/biographies/Creamer-Petra.html Follow her on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petramcreamer.bsky.social  Follow her research on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petra-Creamer Find her publications on Academia: https://emory.academia.edu/PetraCreamer Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 24m
  2. Episode 143 - Dr. Jeffrey Newman

    Jun 24

    Episode 143 - Dr. Jeffrey Newman

    Dr. Jeffrey Newman, an Egyptologist and a research associate at UCLA's Pourdavoud Institute, joins Lexie to discuss his dissertation, which examines ritual performance and the origins of Egyptian bureaucracy and state formation, Predynastic and Early Dynastic chronologies, addresses First Dynasty human sacrifice, and his cultural heritage photography & photogrammetry experiences. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 22, 2025.  Learn more about Dr. Newman: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/people/jeffrey-newman/   Follow his work on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey-Newman-5 Read his dissertation: https://www.proquest.com/docview/3180856129  Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 28m
  3. Episode 142 - Dr. Curtis Dozier

    Jun 10

    Episode 142 - Dr. Curtis Dozier

    Dr. Curtis Dozier, an associate professor of Classics at Vassar College, joins Lexie to discuss entering classics through Latin in public high school, founding Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics to document how white nationalist and antisemitic movements use Greco-Roman antiquity to legitimize politics, his new book The White Pedestal, and how “historical accuracy” rhetoric often masks racism and misogyny. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 14, 2025.  Learn more about Dr. Dozier: https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/cudozier  Follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/curtisdozier.bsky.social Check out his publications on Academia: https://vassar.academia.edu/CurtisDozier  Check out his latest book “The White Pedestal”: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272734/the-white-pedestal/ Check out Pharos: https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/  Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 18m
  4. Episode 141 - Jonathan Todd Ross

    May 27

    Episode 141 - Jonathan Todd Ross

    Jonathan Todd Ross, a voice actor and writer (the voice of Marik Ishtar & Yami Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series), joins Lexie to discuss getting into acting and studying at NYU, stumbling into voice work via an urgent Ultraman audition that led to Yu-Gi-Oh!, and ultimately audiobooks, and why the original Yu-Gi-Oh! dub endures—universal themes, mythic battles, and inner duality. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 8, 2025.  Learn more about Jonathan: https://www.jonathantoddross.com/  Check out his IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1475002/  Follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathantoddross  Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jtoddross  Follow him on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonathanross8102  Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min
  5. Episode 140 - Dr. Roel Konijnendijk

    May 13

    Episode 140 - Dr. Roel Konijnendijk

    Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford, joins Lexie to examine psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity, citing Persian punishment of Miletus and Athens and Athenian reprisals, explore Greek ambivalence about war’s glory and horror, myth-bust Sparta as less uniquely militarist than popularly imagined, and look at reenactment as experiential rather than evidentiary. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 8, 2025.  Learn more about Dr. Konijnendijk: https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-roel-konijnendijk/  Follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/roelkonijn.bsky.social  Follow him on Twitter: https://x.com/Roelkonijn  Get updates on his Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions: https://www.askhistorians.com/amas   Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 19m
  6. Special Release - Back to Where It All Began with Andrea Parkins

    May 5 ·  Bonus

    Special Release - Back to Where It All Began with Andrea Parkins

    In this very special podcast episode, Lexie reconnects with Andrea Parkins, her influential history teacher who ignited her passion for history back in sixth grade. They reminisce about the memorable and engaging methods Andrea used to teach ancient history, such as immersive units on Greece and Egypt, complete with field trips, class competitions, and creative storytelling. Andrea shares her unconventional path to becoming a teacher, her experiences teaching various grades, and her thoughts on making education dynamic and exciting. The conversation offers a heartwarming trip down memory lane, highlighting the lasting impact a passionate teacher can have on their students.  Originally recorded January 5, 2026.  Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Lexie Henning.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    59 min
  7. Episode 139 - Cricket Leigh

    Apr 29

    Episode 139 - Cricket Leigh

    Cricket Leigh, a therapist and accomplished voice-over artist (the voice of Mai on Avatar the Last Airbender), joins Lexie to discuss her path into performance, from growing up in Kalamazoo and doing local theater and musicals to studying intense classical works at NYU, booking Mai on Avatar: The Last Airbender and the show’s enduring appeal through big themes and values, and leaving LA to practice therapy for 10 years, curating Comic-Con panels on anime and mental health, and now returning to creative work and new voiceover roles. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded July 7, 2025.  Check out Cricket’s website: https://cricketleigh.com/  Check out her YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@cricketleightalks  Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cricketleightalks/?hl=en-gb  Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m
  8. Episode 138 - Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta

    Apr 15

    Episode 138 - Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta

    Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a Professor of Classics at Princeton (at the time of this recording), joins Lexie to discuss how growing up unhoused in New York City led him to reading in a shelter library and discovering Greece and Rome, the efforts to revise curricula toward race, gender, and sexuality studies, the limits of relying on one faculty member for such courses, and the importance of hiring, and outlines two reception projects—Classicism and Other Phobias and a book on Dominican classical reception and racialization. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Bluesky, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!  Originally recorded June 26, 2025. Learn more about Dr. Padilla Peralta: https://classics.princeton.edu/people/dan-el-padilla-peralta Follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/platanoclassics.bsky.social Read the NYT article referenced in the episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html Read about his upcoming move to Arizona State University: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/activist-scholar-dan-el-padilla-peralta-06-leaving-princeton Check out his book “Undocumented”: https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/dan-el-padilla-peralta Custom music by Brent Arehart of Arehart Sounds and edited by Dan Maday.  Want a transcript of the episode? Email us at theozymandiasprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we can provide one.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 17m
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Join Lexie Henning as she chats with thought leaders in academia and the entertainment industry about how they got into their field, their current work, and how they connect with the past. Together they strive to connect modern societies to ancient worlds, explore antiquity via contemporary storytelling, and introduce a wider audience to the various ways history and mythology influences popular culture around the world. Tune in for intimate conversations with established top scholars, current postgrads, early career academics, and professionals in their respective fields as their wisdom and advice has never been more accessible! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Lexie Henning
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    170
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Ozymandias Project
  • Show Website
    Ancient Office Hours

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