{"id":84,"date":"2024-07-11T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:34:44","slug":"other-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/other-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am originally from Utica, NY, and I have an incredible amount of upstate pride. My husband,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocrimson.com\/sports\/track\/coaches\/brady_jack?view=bio\">Jack<\/a>, is a track coach and history teacher. I have two precocious sons who regularly crack me up. I love baking and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/book\/\">this\u00a0<\/a>is my favorite cookbook. I am an avid spinner and weightlifter, and I occasionally tolerate the other activities programmed by my gym. I play the violin and viola among other things and have been a member of various orchestras and quartets, including the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brco.avenue.org\/\">Blue Ridge Chamber Orchestra.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to catch up on developments in the field of forensic archaeology (particularly developments involving disease, climate, or the Roman or early medieval period). My greatest mentor in college was&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/history.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/michael-mccormick\">Michael McCormick<\/a>, and I always like to hear about his latest projects. I also worked for a summer at the Oxford School of Archaeology as a research assistant to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.ox.ac.uk\/HH1.html\">Helena Hamerow<\/a>, and during that time, I had the opportunity to visit the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. I deeply regret that I was not living in New Haven when, just in time for Halloween, Superstorm Sandy unearthed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhavenindependent.org\/index.php\/archives\/entry\/skeleton_found_in_upended_tree_on_green\/\">one of the residents of the colonial burial ground under the Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In college, I dabbled in comedy writing. I\u00a0was also a hammer thrower and the co-captain of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/track\/index\">Harvard Track and Field<\/a>\u00a0team, and I was for many years a member of the Executive Board of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friendsofharvardtrack\">Friends of Harvard Track and Field<\/a>. Here I am throwing a twenty-pound ball:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/7v4s2.gif\" alt=\"Gif of woman swinging large ball\" class=\"wp-image-85\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am originally from Utica, NY, and I have an incredible amount of upstate pride. My husband,\u00a0Jack, is a track coach and history teacher. I have two precocious sons who regularly crack me up. I love baking and\u00a0this\u00a0is my favorite cookbook. I am an avid spinner and weightlifter, and I occasionally tolerate the other activities &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/other-interests\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Other Interests<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}