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 […]
New Faculty Book by NES Professor Glenn M. Schwartz
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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 […]
NES Graduate Student Morganne Ottobre Receives ASOR 2023 Student Paper Award
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Morganne Ottobre, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, won ASOR’s student paper award for her paper on the bilingual […]
In Memoriam: Marc Blum (1942-2023)
It is with tremendous sadness that we learned of the passing of Marc Blum on Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Marc was a great and true friend to us in the […]
Dr. Marie-Lys Arnette co-directs Issue of the Journal Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce the recent publication of the volume “Joueuses!” Co-directed by Dr. Marie-Lys Arnette, an Assistant Professor and the Alexander Badawy Chair […]
Michael Chapin Awarded Prestigious JHU Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship
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 […]
Public Lecture by Dr. Anne Goddeeris of Ghent University
The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins presents a public lecture by Dr. Anne Goddeeris, a post-doctoral researcher and teaching assistant of Assyriology in the Department of Languages […]
2023 William Foxwell Albright Lecture to Feature Dr. Christian Leitz
Dr. Christian Leitz, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Tübingen, presents a lecture titled “The Temple of the Lion-Goddess Repit in Athribis.” […]
GoFundMe Campaigns for Zincirli Höyük/Fevzipaşa and Alalah/Tell Atchana
On February 6, 2023, southern Turkey and northwestern Syria were devastated by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people and destroyed multiple towns, […]
Sanchita Balachandran Featured on Podcast, “How were people mummified?”
Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director of the Archaeological Museum, is featured on the kids’ science podcast Brains On in a discussion about how people in ancient Egypt were mummified. The podcast […]