According to a recent announcement by the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), four JHU NES affiliates were listed among the recipients of 2025 project grants and research fellowship awards: […]
The Roots of Civilization
The Department of Near Eastern Studies was founded in 1883 and was the first program in the United States to offer a PhD in the field. Choose from four programs of study: Assyriology, Egyptology, Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Studies, and Near Eastern Archaeology/Near Eastern Art.
- Degrees Offered BA, PhD
- Major Near Eastern Studies
- Minor Near Eastern Studies
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Special Issue of Clio. Women, Gender, History 56 (2022), ‘Women at Play’, Now in English
This issue of the French journal Clio. Women, Gender, History, is devoted to women playing games and explores the attitude of different societies to games and gender over time. Co-edited by Dr. […]
Prof. Glenn Schwartz talks with Ashley Sterner, ‘On the Record’
On Monday, December 2, 2024, Ashley Sterner’s interview with Prof. Glenn Schwartz on his discovery of cylinders with early alphabetic writing and recent ASOR book award airs during ‘On the […]