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This website belongs to Tom Elliott (ipse@paregorios.org).

Which Tom Elliott, you ask? The following information will probably help you disambiguate me from the homonymous politician, stunt man, footballer, investment banker, psychic, etc.

## Names, Identifiers, and Pronouns

 - Tom
 - [Humanities Commons: paregorios](https://hcommons.org/members/paregorios/)
 - [OrcID: 0000-0002-4114-6677](http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4114-6677)
 - [VIAF ID: 309842724](http://viaf.org/viaf/309842724)
 - [https://paregorios.org/me](https://paregorios.org/me)
 - he/him/his

## Work

[Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University](http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott)
Work email: tom.elliott@nyu.edu

## Code and Data

 - [GitHub: paregorios](https://github.com/paregorios)
 - [SourceForge: paregorios](http://sourceforge.net/u/paregorios/profile/)

## Writing, Reading, Collaborating, and Photography

In addition to [my personal blogging](#blogging), you'll find me writing the occasional work-related post for [the *ISAW News* blog](http://isaw.nyu.edu/news). I'm a contributing editor at [*Current Epigraphy*](https://www.currentepigraphy.org/). I'm co-managing editor and principal investigator for [the *Pleiades* gazetteer of ancient places](https://pleiades.stoa.org), so a lot of my intellectual effort goes into content creation and review there (it too has [a sporadic news blog](https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog)). I sometimes contribute content to [the *Digital Classicist Wiki*](https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Special:Contributions/TomElliott) and to [*Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Paregorios).

I track [my reading](https://www.zotero.org/paregorios/items/collectionKey/V9VA7HTP) with [the *Zotero* research assistant](https://www.zotero.org/). The *Pleiades* community also uses Zotero to manage [the bibliography cited in the gazetteer](https://www.zotero.org/groups/2533/pleiades).

I am founder and co-convenor of [the *EpiDoc* collaborative](http://epidoc.sf.net), an international community that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents.

For what it's worth, you'll find my occasional, amateur photography on Flickr, either on [my personal account](https://www.flickr.com/photos/paregorios/) or as part of the [Ancient World Image Bank](https://www.flickr.com/groups/awib/).


## <a name="blogging"></a>Blogging and ~~Social Media~~

Between 2007 and 2018, I blogged on *Blogger* at [http://horothesia.blogspot.com/](http://horothesia.blogspot.com/), but now I host my own blog here at paregorios.org using [the Nikola static site generator](https://getnikola.com/). The old *Horothesia* blog is still there (last time I checked), but I've imported all the posts into this site. You can find them in [the archive](/archive.html) or via [the "horothesia" tag](/categories/horothesia). New posts appear on [the main page of this site](/), and you can [subscribe to the blog using RSS](/rss.xml) because <a title="Rich Site Summary" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS">RSS</a> was and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_technology" title="History of web syndication technology">still is a good thing</a>.

Social media / microblogging is an unholy mess. I'm taking a break.

