Alumni

NameConcentrationDissertationAffiliationGraduation Year
Karen BrysonEgyptologyThe Reign of Horemheb: History, Historiography, and the Dawn of the Ramesside Era2018
Erin Guinn-VillarealHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsBiblical Hebrew qin’â and the Maintenance of Social Integrity in Ancient Israelite LiteratureGovernment Accountability Office2018
William ReedHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsYahweh’s “Cruel Sword”: The Manifestation of Punishment and the Trauma of ExileLecturer, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Adjunct Professor, UMBC		2018
Ashley Fiutko AricoEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyThe Contexts of Ancient Egyptian Statuary in the LevantElizabeth McIlvaine Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, The Art Institute of Chicago2017
Joshua BowenAssyriologyA Preliminary Study of the Sumerian Curricular and Lamentational Texts from the Old Babylonian City of Kish2017
Marina Escolano-PovedaEgyptologyThe 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		Lecturer, Egyptology, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool2017
Meredith FraserEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyA Material Culture Analysis of Menits and Menit Counterpoises from the New Kingdom through the Third Intermediate PeriodContent Director, Hanover Research2017
J. Caleb HowardAssyriologyThe Process of Producing the Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud/KalḫuResearch Associate, Tyndale House, Cambridge
Research Associate, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge		2017
Jennifer SweridaArchaeologyHousing the Umm an-Nar: The Settlements and Houses of BatNear Eastern Department, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania2017
Christopher BrinkerArchaeologyAn Absence of Evidence: A search for Mobile Pastoralism and Segmentary Lineage Systems in the Archaeological and Historical Records of Early Bronze Age Syria2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University2016
Katherine DavisEgyptologyConceptions of Language: Egyptian Perspectives on Writing and Grammar in the Late Period and Greco-Roman PeriodLecturer, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan2016
John Tracy Thames Jr.Hebrew Bible/NW SemiticsRitual Revision and the Influence of Empire: The Politics of Change in the zukru Festival of Late Bronze EmarLecturer, School of Divinity, Yale University2016
Laura WrightHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsGlyptic Art Under and After Empire: Late Bronze IIB and Iron I Scarabs and Stamp Seals from the Southern LevantVisiting Assistant Professor, Luther College2016
Tiffany Earley-SpadoniArchaeologyEnvisioning Landscapes of Warfare: a Multi-Regional Analysis of Early Iron Fortress-States and Biainili-UrartuAssistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Central Florida2015
Michael SimoneHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsOn Fire: Preternatural and Hypostatic Fire in Ancient Israelite ReligionAssistant Professor of Old Testament, Boston College2015
Adam MaskevichArchaeologyUmm el-Marra and the Westward Expansion of the Mittani Empire in Northwestern Syria2014
Erin FlemingHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsThe Politics of Sexuality in the Story of King David2013
Heather Dana Davis ParkerNorthwest SemiticsThe Levant Comes of Age: The Ninth Century BCE through Script Traditions2013
Jaime L. WatersHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsThreshing Floors as Sacred Spaces in the Hebrew BibleAssistant Professor, Catholic Studies, DePaul University2013
Sarah Koplik YukichArchaeologySpatial Dimensions of Social Complexity: Environment, Economy, and Settlement in the Jabbul Plain, 3000-550 BC2013
Isabel CranzHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsImpurity and Ritual in the Priestly Source and Assyro-Babylonian IncantationsAssistant Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Pennsylvania2012
Heath DewrellHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsChild Sacrifice in Ancient Israel and Its OpponentsAssistant Professor of Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary2012
Andrew KnappHebrew Bible/NW SemiticsRoyal Apologetic in the Ancient Near EastAcquisitions Editor, Old Testament, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company2012