Michael Chapin, a PhD student in the Assyriology program, has been awarded a JHU Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship and will join the Society’s 2023-2024 cohort.  During his time as member of the Society of Fellows, Michael will work with Sanchita Balachandran, the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum’s Director, on the project “Babylon in Baltimore: The Mesopotamian Collection of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum.” This project aims to make the JHU Archaeological Museum’s Mesopotamian material more accessible to the university, broader Baltimore community, and interested scholars through physical and online resources.  In March, Michael successfully defended his dissertation, “‘My-Mother-is-Precious’: Names and Naming Practices in the First Dynasty of the Sealand (ca. 1500 BCE).”