| Name | Concentration | Dissertation Title | Affiliation | Graduation Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Essam | Assyriology | Sumerian Texts on Prisms in the Old Babylonian Period | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program | 2025 |
| Paige Paulsen | Archaeology | Movement, Settlement Pattern, and Architecture in Iron Age Southeast Arabia | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neukom Center for Computational Science at Dartmouth College | 2025 |
| Laurel Poolman | Archaeology | The Animals of Empire: Human-animal relationships at Iron Age Sam'al | 2025 | |
| Mason Wilkes | Assyriology | Sumerian Proverb Collection 2 | Postdoc Fellow in the VariGraph program at the University of Liege | 2025 |
| Chelsea Kaufman | Egyptology | Canine Behavior in Egyptian Art: A Behavioral Analysis of the Domestic Dog Icon in 18th Dynasty Theban Tombs | AI Trainer, Outlier | 2024 |
| Jason (Jay) Weimar | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Before the Hajj: The haggāt Feasts at Pre-Islamic Dadan (Al-Ula) and Elsewhere in the Near East | AI Tutor, xAI | 2024 |
| Nicholas Gill | Assyriology | Sumerian and Akkadian in Old Babylonian Incantation Tablets | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago | 2024 |
| Michael Chapin | Assyriology | “My-Mother-Is-Precious”: Names and Naming Practices in the First Dynasty of the Sealand (ca. 1500 BCE) | Analyst, Antiquities Division, District Attorney’s Office, New York | 2023 |
| Noah Crabtree | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | The Prophet From Anathoth: Benjamin-Judean Identity Negotiation and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah | Independent Researcher | 2023 |
| Avary Rhys Taylor | Near Eastern Art and Archaeology | The Lives of Things in the Northwest Palace | Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University | 2023 |
| Morgan Moroney | Egyptology | Pregnant With Wine: A Gendered Approach to Wine Materiality in Egyptian Funerary Ritual | Assistant Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Brooklyn Museum | 2022 |
| Jill S. Waller | Egyptology | For The Greedy There Will Be No Tomb: Cemetery N9000 of Naga Ed-Deir and Ancient Thinis in The Middle Kingdom Through Early New Kingdom Periods | Historical Consultant | 2022 |
| Adam Bean | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Local Cults and National Gods: Divine Identity in Iron Age Levantine Religion | Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Milligan University | 2022 |
| Margaret (Meg) Swaney | Egyptology | Designing a Temple for Repit: Art-Making and Meaning-Making at the Ptolemy XII Temple at Athribis | Assistant Curator, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum | 2022 |
| Greg Church | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | The Defilement of the Land in the Hebrew Bible: Exploring the Social Uses of Disgust, Law, and Ritual | The Clearing | 2021 |
| Lingxin Zhang | Egyptology | Writing Her Fate: Women's Astrological Manuals from Roman Egypt (PSI INV.D 35+ P. Carlsberg 684 and P. Carlsberg 100) | Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow & Assistant Professor – Dept of Classics, Georgetown University | 2021 |
| Kathryn Medill | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | You Will Know Me by My Writing: The Scribes' Choice of Goal-Marking Strategies in Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Social, Historical, and Linguistic Correlates | Assistant Teaching Professor of Hebrew Bible and the ANE, MELC Department, University of Washington | 2020 |
| David J. Rosenstein | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Deuteronomy and Rhetoric: The Art of Practical Argumentation in Ancient Israel | Managing Director, Negril Ltd. | 2020 |
| Ioana Dumitru | Archaeology | A Comparative Approach to the Development of Ancient Copper Supply Networks in Oman and Obsidian Supply Networks in Ethiopia | Associate Lecturer, School of Archaeology, The University of Sydney | 2019 |
| Anna Glenn | Assyriology | Praise of Kingship: Sirgida-hymns in the Old Babylonian Liturgical Tradition | Sumerian Preceptorship, Dept of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Harvard University | 2019 |
| Rosanne Liebermann | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | "Hearts of Flesh": Collective Identity and the Body in the Book of Ezekiel | Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark | 2019 |
| Karen Bryson | Egyptology | The Reign of Horemheb: History, Historiography, and the Dawn of the Ramesside Era | US Government Accountability Office | 2018 |
| Erin Guinn-Villareal | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Biblical Hebrew qin’â and the Maintenance of Social Integrity in Ancient Israelite Literature | US Government Accountability Office | 2018 |
| William Reed | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Yahweh’s “Cruel Sword”: The Manifestation of Punishment and the Trauma of Exile | US Government Accountability Office | 2018 |
| Ashley Fiutko Arico | Egyptian Art and Archaeology | The Contexts of Ancient Egyptian Statuary in the Levant | Associate Curator, Ancient Egyptian Art, Art Institute of Chicago | 2017 |
| Joshua Bowen | Assyriology | A Preliminary Study of the Sumerian Curricular and Lamentational Texts from the Old Babylonian City of Kish | 2017 | |
| Marina Escolano-Poveda | Egyptology | The Image of the Egyptian Priests in the Graeco-Roman Period (3rd Century BCE – early 4th Century CE): an Analysis on the Basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Literary and Paraliterary Sources | Senior Lecturer in Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures, University of Liverpool | 2017 |
| Meredith Fraser | Egyptian Art and Archaeology | A Material Culture Analysis of Menits and Menit Counterpoises from the New Kingdom through the Third Intermediate Period | Content Director, Hanover Research | 2017 |
| J. Caleb Howard | Assyriology | The Process of Producing the Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud/Kalḫu | Research Associate, Tyndale House, Cambridge Research Associate, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge | 2017 |
| Jennifer Swerida | Archaeology | Housing the Umm an-Nar: The Settlements and Houses of Bat | Assistant Professor, West Asian Archaeology, Leiden University | 2017 |
| Christopher Brinker | Archaeology | An Absence of Evidence: A search for Mobile Pastoralism and Segmentary Lineage Systems in the Archaeological and Historical Records of Early Bronze Age Syria | Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton | 2016 |
| Katherine Davis | Egyptology | Conceptions of Language: Egyptian Perspectives on Writing and Grammar in the Late Period and Greco-Roman Period | Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Michigan | 2016 |
| John Tracy Thames Jr. | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Ritual Revision and the Influence of Empire: The Politics of Change in the zukru Festival of Late Bronze Emar | Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University | 2016 |
| Laura Wright | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Glyptic Art Under and After Empire: Late Bronze IIB and Iron I Scarabs and Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant | Visiting Assistant Professor, Luther College | 2016 |
| Tiffany Earley-Spadoni | Archaeology | Envisioning Landscapes of Warfare: a Multi-Regional Analysis of Early Iron Fortress-States and Biainili-Urartu | Associate Professor, Dept of History, University of Central Florida | 2015 |
| Michael Simone | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | On Fire: Preternatural and Hypostatic Fire in Ancient Israelite Religion | Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Boston College | 2015 |
| Adam Maskevich | Archaeology | Umm el-Marra and the Westward Expansion of the Mittani Empire in Northwestern Syria | 2014 | |
| Erin Fleming | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | The Politics of Sexuality in the Story of King David | 2013 | |
| Heather Dana Davis Parker | Northwest Semitics | The Levant Comes of Age: The Ninth Century BCE through Script Traditions | 2013 | |
| Jaime L. Waters | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Threshing Floors as Sacred Spaces in the Hebrew Bible | Associate Professor, Old Testament, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry | 2013 |
| Sarah Koplik Yukich | Archaeology | Spatial Dimensions of Social Complexity: Environment, Economy, and Settlement in the Jabbul Plain, 3000-550 BC | 2013 | |
| Isabel Cranz | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Impurity and Ritual in the Priestly Source and Assyro-Babylonian Incantations | Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Pennsylvania | 2012 |
| Heath Dewrell | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel and Its Opponents | Assistant Professor, Dept of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin | 2012 |
| Andrew Knapp | Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics | Royal Apologetic in the Ancient Near East | Acquisitions Editor, Old Testament, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | 2012 |
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