Isadora (Issy) Dellheim passed away at the age of 93 on August 5, 2024, and, less than two months later, her husband Arthur Dellheim passed away at the age of […]
Department Friends Arthur and Isadora Dellheim Pass Away
News & Announcements Archive
NES Associate Professor Jacob Lauinger and Assyriology PhD Student Zeynep Türker Featured in CNN, NPR, and Forbes
Jacob Lauinger, Associate Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Zeynep Türker, a PhD student in Assyriology, were recently featured in articles by CNN and Forbes discussing the discovery of […]
NES Assistant Professor Alice Mandell Receives Catalyst Award and AGHI Faculty Fellowship
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Alice Mandell, the William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, has received both the […]
Department Friend Isadora Dellheim Passes Away
Isadora (Issy) Dellheim passed away at the age of 93 on August 5, 2024. She and her husband Arthur have been staunch friends of the department since the 1980’s. For […]
NES Alumna Rosanne Liebermann Promoted to Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
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 […]
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, […]
2024 William Foxwell Albright Lecture to Feature Dr. Timothy Harrison
Dr. Timothy Harrison, Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, will give the 2024 William Foxwell Albright lecture titled “Portraits of a Forgotten Kingdom: The Tayinat Sculptures […]
New Faculty Book by NES Professor Glenn M. Schwartz
Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the […]
2024 ANSHE Lecture to Feature Dr. Petra Creamer
Dr. Petra Creamer, Assistant Professor at Emory University, will present a lecture titled “The Other Side of the Empire: Rural Spaces Under Assyrian Control” on Thursday, March 7th, 2024. The […]