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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

According to a recent announcement by the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), four JHU NES affiliates were listed among the recipients of 2025 project grants and research fellowship awards: […]

This issue of the French journal Clio. Women, Gender, History, is devoted to women playing games and explores the attitude of different societies to games and gender over time. Co-edited by Dr. […]

On Monday, December 2, 2024, Ashley Sterner’s interview with Prof. Glenn Schwartz on his discovery of cylinders with early alphabetic writing and recent ASOR book award airs during ‘On the […]

The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud and happy to announce that Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz has received this year’s G. Ernest Wright Award from the American Society of […]

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 […]

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 […]