The Alexander-Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) has awarded Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, graduate student, Lucas Grassi Freire with their AGHI Faculty Fellowship for the AY 2026-2027! The AGHI Faculty Fellowship aims […]
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NES Graduate Students Awarded Krieger School Scholar-Teacher Awards
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is excited to announce recipients of the KSAS Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences Scholar-Teachers Awards (STAR). Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics […]
Crossing Borders: Translating the Ancient World – Dr. Christie Carr Visits NES
On April 6th and 7th, the Departments of Classics and Near Eastern Studies teamed up to host a joint event on the topic of translation with visiting speaker Dr. Christie Carr. […]
Department Chair, Dr. Jacob Lauinger, and Graduate Student, Zeynep Türker, Write for ASOR
The American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR) recently published a report written by JHU affiliates, including the department of Near Eastern Studies Chair, Dr. Jacob Lauinger, and graduate student, Zeynep […]
Marian Feldman’s Forthcoming Book Featured in Apollo Magazine
Dr. Marian Feldman’s forthcoming book, Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy during the Ur III Period, has been featured in […]
Defne Bilgili Awarded Joy Ungerleider Poster Award
Near Eastern Studies graduate student, Defne Bilgili, was awarded the Joy Ungerleider Poster Award at the 2025 ASOR annual meeting for her poster on “Preservation and Public Engagement at Tell […]
2025 Samuel Iwry Lecture: Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, presents the 2025 Samuel Iwry lecture titled, “Uncertainty, Indeterminacy, and the Question of Ancient Identity.” The lecture will take […]
Alice Mandell Awarded Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize
We are pleased to share that Dr. Alice Mandell’s article, “Word Craft in the Ancient Levant: Craft-Literacy as the Intersection of Specialized Knowledge,” published in Maarav 27.1–2 (2023), has been […]
Arts & Sciences Magazine: Interview with Glenn Schwartz
Dr. Glenn M. Schwartz, the Archaeology Program Director and Whiting Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, was recently featured in JHU’s Arts and Sciences Magazine. In the […]
Humans of Hopkins: Interview with Betsy Bryan
Dr. Betsy M. Bryan, the Alexander Badawy Professor Emerita of Egyptian Art and Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, was recently featured in Humans of Hopkins, a series […]