The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce the happy news that Rosanne Liebermann, a 2019 graduate from the Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitic Philology program, has been promoted to the […]
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
News & Announcements
NES Graduate Student Alison Wilkinson Receives ARCE Prize
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Alison Wilkinson, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, received the First Prize for Best Student Paper at the American Research […]
2024 Lavy Colloquium on Jewish Monumentality
The theme of this year’s Lavy Colloquium is Jewish Monumentality. Welcome and Opening Remarks begins at 9:00am on Monday, May 6. The lineup of speakers include Aviva Ben-Ur, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, […]