Research Travel 2018—Goodbye, Oxford

By Erica Mongé-Greer | June 15, 2018

My final Oxford adventure was to visit a coffee roaster a few blocks south of my AirBnB in East Oxford. It was called “The Missing Bean” and delivered a fine cup of coffee. I enjoyed it quite well. My walk back to pick up my luggage was sidetracked by an incredible old cemetery where the…

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Research Travel 2018—About Town in Oxford

By Erica Mongé-Greer | June 14, 2018

Having rushed around the last few days to see the major attractions of the city, I spent Thursday in a more leisurely manner. Here is near Addison’s Walk at Magdalene college. For years I have been struck by the story C. S. Lewis tells in a letter to a friend, since published, about how a…

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Research Travel 2018—Antiquities (& Dinosaurs)

By Erica Mongé-Greer | June 12, 2018

Museum hopping this afternoon. First to the Ashmolean Museum for some cuneiform and ancient Near Eastern culture, including the Sumerian King list, some Persian tiles, and Assyrian reliefs. The Natural History Museum Where Charles Darwin argued for his Origins work in 1860. Dino’s and the Extinct Dodo Emma’s elephant (who is traveling with me) discovered…

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Research Travel 2018—Rise and Shine

By Erica Mongé-Greer | June 12, 2018

I feel close to being back on a normal schedule today. I am up before 6am, drinking coffee I made with my aero press and working through edits on my dissertation. I have a lovely view from the kitchen table in my AirBnB host home. Then, I walked into town this morning to start my…

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